New developers ship code on day one.
TDK sets up the entire technical workspace in minutes. No waiting, no setup weeks, no extra hires.
In plain words
Software companies lose weeks of salary every time they hire developers. The newcomers wait: computers are not set up, passwords are missing, instructions are outdated.
TDK sets up the entire technical workspace automatically, in minutes. New hires write code on day one. We sell it as a subscription at $19 per developer per month. See what waiting costs.
Watch a cold boot
This is the real boot sequence, captured on a 16 GB M1 MacBook. Discovery, generation, golden-layer caching, health checks — then you just write code.
The unit economics, stated plainly
Conservative model: five engineering hours recovered per developer per week, plus one avoided platform hire.
How much will your company save?
Drag the sliders. The formula is printed below — no magic numbers.
Math: devs × 5 hrs × 48 weeks × hourly rate (salary ÷ 2,080) + one avoided platform-engineer hire ($150K). TDK itself costs $0 — open source, MIT.
One manifest in. 12-17 files out.
Service output and stack contracts, both derived from the same service.json.
One manifest
{
"appName": "orders",
"appType": "frontend",
"port": 3001,
"features": ["vite"]
}
A real toolchain, wired together — not a template dump
Every artifact below is produced by an actual generator module in the TDK source tree. See our ERP system with 100 services for a production example.
Watch one manifest become a working service.
No more monolith-shaped AI output. TDK gives coding agents a legible topology, then keeps dozens of services independently owned, generated, and reachable through one local domain namespace.
{
"appName": "order-frontend",
"appType": "frontend",
"port": 3001,
"features": ["vite", "typescript"],
"backendName": "order-backend"
}
- .env.frontend.autogenerated
- .npmrc.autogenerated
- .npmrc.docker.autogenerated
- AGENTS.md
- Dockerfile.app.autogenerated
- api-client.ts
- api-index.ts
- bunfig.autogenerated.toml
- bunfig.docker.autogenerated.toml
- env.ts
- nginx.autogenerated.conf
- playwright.config.autogenerated.ts
- tsconfig.autogenerated.json
- tsconfig.docker.autogenerated.json
- validation-report.autogenerated.json
- vite.config.build.autogenerated.ts
- vite.config.frontend.autogenerated.ts
Every service is on the network in seconds.
It looks like weeks of integration. TDK launches the topology at once while Traefik handles discovery, health checks, retries, and paths.
http://app.commerce.localhost/storehttp://app.commerce.localhost/opshttp://api.commerce.localhost/api/v1/ordershttp://api.commerce.localhost/api/v1/inventoryhttp://api.commerce.localhost/api/v1/identityhttp://api.commerce.localhost/api/v1/paymentsOne manifest replaces cloud sandboxes at $150 per developer, weeks of YAML plumbing, and a $150K platform hire.
Everything you stop paying for
Teams assemble this stack from a dozen tools and months of DevOps work. TDK ships it in one CLI — on hardware you already own.
Cloud dev environments
Gitpod / Ona, GitHub Codespaces, Coder, Daytona, Codeanywhere, Replit
Kubernetes dev tooling
Garden, Skaffold, DevSpace, Telepresence, mirrord, Nocalhost — plus weeks of YAML
Golden Docker images
DIY base-image maintenance, CVE patching, cache strategy
Per-service build config
Hand-written Vite, TSConfig, Dockerfile, .npmrc and .env for every repo
Secrets infrastructure
Vault / Infisical wiring, machine identities, token lifecycle per service
Routing, registry and docs
nginx / Traefik configs, private npm registry, architecture diagrams, runbooks
E2E test infrastructure
Playwright environment setup against the full running stack
Onboarding runbooks
Wiki pages that rot within a month — replaced by tdk doctor and a live terminal UI
Honest answers
Hover to expand. The same answers we give in engineering reviews.
Priced against what it replaces
Free during beta. When we launch — simple pricing anchored to the alternatives, not to our costs.
The full CLI, MIT-licensed. Our adoption engine — the same model as Tilt and Skaffold.
- Unlimited services, 100+ proven
- All generators — 12-17 files per service
- L1–L4 golden Docker images
- Community support
For teams that want guardrails and a human on the other end.
- Everything in Community
- Team template registry and policies
- Priority support, next business day
- Onboarding session for your stack
For regulated or large-scale environments.
- SSO / OIDC, audit logs
- Air-gapped / on-prem support
- SLA and dedicated Slack channel
- Forward-deployed setup of your stack
Why $19? Because the alternatives cost 5–500× more.
Gitpod starts at $20/mo plus compute. Codespaces runs $60–150 per dev per month at full-time usage. TDK Team is $19 flat — compute is your laptop.
10 devs × $19 = $2,280/yr. One platform engineer costs $150K/yr. A 65× difference for the local-environment portion of the job.
$19 is roughly 15 minutes of a fully-loaded developer's month. TDK returns about 20 hours. It typically pays for itself in the first week.
Coder and Okteto gate RBAC and SSO behind "contact sales". TDK Team includes team policies at a self-serve price.
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