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2026-05-04 12:34
I Spent 3 Years Looking for This Tool. It Didn't Exist. So I Built It.
Every time we hired a new developer, the same nightmare started.
Week 1: "Alex, how does this service work?"
Week 2: "Alex, where does this connect to?"
Week 3: still pulling me and my senior devs away from real work.
I managed a team building software across multiple projects — Java backends, ESP32 firmware in C/C++, frontend apps. The codebase was real, complex, and completely undocumented in ...