Threadwise

What it is

Threadwise started as a reminder and note bot for myself. After using it every day and watching a few friends use it, I noticed a bigger problem. A lot of useful work already starts in chat, but people end up copying it into another app, and later they have to ask what was decided.

So Threadwise does three things. It captures tasks, reminders, notes, ideas and images from plain messages. It helps a group coordinate shared work, with assignees and a way to find a meeting time. It also brings things back when you need them, through search, reminders and a web dashboard that shows the same data.

My part

I led the product development. I decided what to solve and what to remove, how permissions and privacy should work, what counted as done, and when to deploy. AI coding tools wrote the implementation, the tests and much of the documentation based on my direction. I did not hand-write the code.

How it works

Most messages never reach an AI model. The bot checks for exact commands first, then tries to parse common phrasing locally, and then calls a service that validates and saves. AI only comes in where summarising actually helps, like merging notes. This keeps normal replies fast and predictable.

As of version 0.32.0 on 10 August 2026, the backend had 786 passing tests across 97 test files.

Limits

• It is not end-to-end encrypted. Users are kept separate from each other, but the operator can technically read stored content, and the product says so.
• Search is made for personal and small-group use.
• I do not have enough usage numbers to claim anything about growth or retention.

What I learned

• Sometimes making a product better means removing features or freezing them.
• Reminders, permissions and undo have to work the same way every time. If they do not, people stop trusting them.
• The dashboard is there to extend the chat, so it should never become a second place you have to keep updated.