Alexander Weichart
Alexander Weichart is an individual full-stack software engineer and independent developer who builds open-source software, native Apple applications, developer tools, knowledge systems, and AI-assisted prototypes. His flagship current project, Slate Terminal, is a native macOS terminal that combines terminals, browser panes, plugins, layouts, CLI automation, and agent-controlled workflows.
At a Glance
- macOS software developers
- AI-native developers and users of coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and Copilot
- Developer-tools and DevOps users who need terminal, browser, deployment, and monitoring panels together
- Power users who want programmable, reusable workspaces
- +2 more
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Slate Terminal
Open Source macOS Terminal App
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Latest News
Slate Terminal 0.9.0 published; added Dock New Window and fixed pane movement and graceful terminal shutdown/output restoration.
Slate Terminal 0.8.0 published; added browser uploads/downloads, JavaScript dialogs, popup windows, and shared browser-control APIs.
Slate Terminal 0.7.0 published; added layout-app restoration, independent plugin choices, stored terminal-output restoration, and agent accent colors.
Slate Terminal 0.6.0 published; introduced independent Mac apps from saved layouts with separate windows, sessions, browser profiles, and plugin data.
Products & Services
Native macOS terminal for Apple Silicon and macOS 27 or later. It combines terminal sessions, browser panes, custom plugin panels, tabs, splits, saved layouts, layout-based app launchers, a CLI, and a shared automation API that coding agents can use. Distributed as a public GPL-3.0-or-later source repository with a Mac DMG.
Agent-native cloud file storage project with an MCP server, CLI, REST API, unified human/agent authentication, API keys with path-scoped permissions, Postgres/pgvector, object storage, embeddings, and job processing.
Paper-like calendar app for iOS, with planned iPadOS and macOS support, vertical scrolling, and gesture-driven navigation.
App providing four basic AI shortcut actions for Apple Shortcuts.
Market Position
Slate Terminal positions itself as a native macOS workspace rather than only a traditional terminal emulator: its differentiators are extensible trusted plugins, custom panels and commands, saved layouts that can become independent apps, browser panes, and a shared automation surface for CLI tools, plugins, and coding agents. Alexander's broader work similarly emphasizes small, focused, self-built productivity, knowledge-management, language-learning, and AI-native tools rather than a single enterprise software suite.
Leadership
Founders
Alexander Weichart
Full-stack software engineer and independent developer. He studied Media Computer Science at the University of Regensburg (BA, 2019–2023), worked as a student research assistant there, then as a full-stack engineer at DEBTVISION GmbH from October 2023 to March 2026, and joined Birchill in Osaka in April 2026. His stated technical background includes Java, TypeScript, Swift, Spring Boot, React, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, AWS, and AI/agentic development.
Founding Story
Weichart's public project history describes a pattern of building tools to solve his own workflow and learning problems: a 3D graph because the standard 2D note graph felt limited, a note linker to avoid manually hunting for connections, a fast note-taking app because existing tools felt too slow, and Slate Terminal as a terminal that users can shape with panels, commands, layouts, plugins, and coding agents. Slate's first-release notes describe the initial vision as bringing terminals, browser panes, and custom tools into one native macOS workspace.
Business Model
Revenue Model
The public Slate Terminal repository is licensed GPL-3.0-or-later and provides source code plus downloadable Mac releases. The official site and repository show no paid subscription, API-usage charge, or commercial pricing model.
Target Markets
- macOS software developers
- AI-native developers and users of coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and Copilot
- Developer-tools and DevOps users who need terminal, browser, deployment, and monitoring panels together
- Power users who want programmable, reusable workspaces
- Open-source contributors and plugin developers
- iOS/macOS productivity and language-learning users for the independent apps
- AI-assisted software development and agent-driven workspace automation
- Multi-pane coding workflows combining terminals, browsers, dashboards, deployment views, and custom panels
- Creating reusable project workspaces and launching them as dedicated macOS layout apps
- Building trusted local plugins, commands, services, and workflow-specific tools
- Developer operations, release monitoring, pull-request review, deployment tracking, and latency monitoring
- Personal knowledge management, note capture, Japanese language learning, and experimental AI interfaces