You may have looked at my old Anchor repository, which was actually being built as a Steem wallet and since halted. The actual Anchor repository is located under the Greymass organization on Github, in the develop and anchor branches of eos-voter. The whole repository will be renamed to Anchor soon.
We are about a year in development and are on RC3 of the 1.0.0 build, closing in on release. The techniques and software itself have come a long way and advanced a lot since I initially worked on Vessel. There are a few new things Steem may benefit from (better foundation, new signing protocol, etc), but I also think for the immediate future simply improving Vessel is probably the best path forward.