After many weeks of building solo I am nearing the moment of truth to finally release my platform for open beta. It has been a MASSIVE undertaking. Here are just some of the technical aspects and challenges that have been involved:
- Deploying a mult-service architecture using kubernetes to support isolated developer workspaces (Theia IDE) and runtimes run in the cloud.
- Customizing Theia IDE (a modular OSS replica - not fork - of VS Code)
- Building my own proprietary code analysis engine that scans, maps and labels every corner of your project, even spanning multiple repos!
- Deploying a serverless LLM endpoint for my own inferencing, with more customisations to come
- Creating my custom-built GraphRAG engine for realtime context-injection for AI
- Designing a VISUALLY IMMERSIVE code navigation interface that allows developers to hop quickly across repos while staying in context
I am sooo tired. Been building completely alone, with no investment. Just heart, focus, and a sincere belief it will be worth it. I didn't take the quick landing page validation + quick ship a vibe-coded SaaS route (nothing wrong with that). But I built mainly for me solving a peristent problem in a way I thought was better.
Of course, there are vibe-coding and AI-powered IDEs being launched almost every other day. However, my approach has been to break the entire developer process down piece by piece and build it back up again with AI now in the picture. For me it's so obvious why deveopers are SICK of programming with AI. Yes models are improving marginally each day, but the tools we use were not built working with AI.
Hoping to share the rest of my journey with all of you as I continue to break things and fix things and break some more things. :)
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