Waiting for MVP? You're paying for the wait.

Your developers were hired to ship features. Instead, their first weeks go to environment setup, credentials and specs that aren't ready. Every blocked week burns payroll and delays the MVP by a week.

How much money burns while you set up env?

Move the sliders to your team. The math is printed below the result.

5
$130,000
2
$25,000 payroll burned on waiting
2 weeks MVP delayed — 0 features shipped
$95/mo same team on TDK instead

Math: developers × (salary ÷ 52) × blocked weeks. TDK column: developers × $19/mo. New hires run tdk up on day one instead of waiting.

The first month, two ways

Same five developers. Same project. Different first month.

Without TDK

Week 1

Five laptops, zero running systems

Installs, VPN, credentials. The setup wiki describes a stack that no longer exists.

Week 2

The environment lottery

Two developers run the backend but not the database. One waits on the business analyst for specs. Nobody sees the whole system.

Week 3

First commit, maybe

Half the team can finally run the project. The other half broke their setup trying.

Week 4

A month of payroll, a week of code

The MVP is already a month late and nobody wrote a line of product code in weeks one and two.

With TDK

Day 1, morning

Clone, tdk up, code

All five developers boot the full system — databases, queues, frontends — in minutes.

Day 1, afternoon

First feature branch

Hot reload works, tests run against the live stack, the BA call hasn't even ended.

Week 1

First demo to stakeholders

Running product instead of running setup. The MVP timeline starts on day one, not week three.

Week 4

A month of payroll, a month of code

Every salary went into the product. Environment setup cost the team one morning, once.

Hire one a week — or unblock all five at once

The textbook advice is onboarding developers one per week so each gets attention. Reality hires the whole team on one Monday. TDK makes the realistic way work.

The +1 developer per week ideal

Staggered starts mean every newcomer gets a mentor, a working setup guide and review time. It takes five weeks to staff the team — and assumes someone senior has five free weeks to babysit environments.

The 5-at-once reality, unblocked

Hire all five together. Nobody needs a mentor for setup because there is no setup: the manifest generates every config, the doctor verifies every machine. Senior time stays on architecture, not on .env files.

Stop paying salaries for waiting

Join the waitlist. Your next five hires ship code on day one.

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