Max Blade

Max Blade is an indie maker and YouTuber best known for DeskHub, a desk gadget that shows a developer's GitHub contribution graph, and for CNVS (cnvs.dev), a macOS app for directing several AI coding agents at once. Max builds hardware and software in public on X, where the bio describes CNVS as a vibe coding environment of the future, and on the YouTube channel Max Blade.

According to the DeskHub site, Max (Maximilian) started a PC repair business at 15. DeskHub began in mid-2024 after a Marc Lou tweet about shipping a hardware version of a product: Max spent about three weeks building a physical GitHub contribution calendar for Marc Lou, who shared it, and turned the prototype into a product. Max grew an audience of about 3,300 followers in two months while building it, sold out the first batch in 22 minutes and later reported selling out six drops in a row. The devices are hand assembled in the USA. Max built DeskHub bootstrapped, in a basement workshop after the kids were in bed, and taught himself C++ for the device firmware; by October 2024 he said it had brought in more than $10K in revenue and over 4,000 new followers.

DeskHub launched on Product Hunt on August 18, 2024, finishing as the #1 product of the day with more than 900 upvotes.

Since then Max has moved into AI tools. The YouTube channel streams live vibe coding sessions and tests new AI models, and in early 2026 Max released QuickClaw, an iOS app that spins up a personal OpenClaw agent in under 30 seconds without servers or API keys.

The current focus is CNVS, a native macOS app written in Swift that puts Claude, Cursor and Codex agents side by side on one canvas and lets you command them by voice. It works with your existing AI subscriptions and is sold as a one-time purchase, with early founder licenses at $99 and later tiers at $129 and $169.