Over the past few months, more than a quarter of a million people have used Chef to create awesome full-stack projects. Over that time, we've gotten lots of feedback on what's worked, what hasn't, and we've continually iterated and improved on the project.

But here's the thing: we never really intended for Chef to be an independent, commercial product. We're the Convex company, after all!

Chef was never meant to go against the AI App builders, it was to show them how fire their app builders would be if they integrated with Convex
— Micky (@rasmickyy) September 2, 2025

We developed Chef to learn as much as we could about how to make LLM-driven code generation amazing with Convex. And now, a lot of what we've learned from Chef has really broadened our thinking about what we can do with LLMs + Convex in the future. We have a lot of wild ideas!

But since Chef was only there to benefit Convex customers, we've always happily shared the source code with teams building code-gen products on Convex.

So, why not just open it up to everyone?

GitHub - get-convex/chef: The only AI app builder that knows backend

The only AI app builder that knows backend. Contribute to get-convex/chef development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHubget-convex

It's all there, Apache 2 licensed. If you want to run Chef locally, make some enhancements and send us a PR, go for it! If you want to fork it and build a business, more power to you.

And while we're in an open source mood...

Expanding our OSS Sponsorship Program

Earlier this year, we joined the Open Source Pledge. At that time, our early sponsorship efforts were concentrated on one (very special) project: TanStack Start.

And while we remain a sponsor and continue to be huge fans of everything the TanStack crew is doing, we've decided to expand our support to include other worthwhile open-source projects and maintainers.

We recently gathered a bunch of nominations from our engineering team, and proud to sponsor:

Please check out all those incredible people and projects and consider supporting their work.

We'll be periodically revisiting our open source sponsorships program, and we're looking forward to supporting more developers and projects in the future.