Koen

Building the agentic development platform to replace all DevOps tools. Scaling bootstrapped Dutch SaaS

[Koen @FreriksKoen]

@dark_coderz Sounds like your time as a service

[Koen @FreriksKoen]

@RemyAlidarso How much have you sold? First sell before optimizijg anything

[Koen @FreriksKoen]

@RemyAlidarso If its worth it build it

[Koen @FreriksKoen]

Still trying to sell low-code platforms? Maybe you should add this to your renewal offer. Your customer will need it

[Koen @FreriksKoen]

Also built our own docusign app within 2 hours and tested it directly with a customer signing a platform deal for Nodge. What a time to ship.

[Koen @FreriksKoen]

@launch_llama Everyday should be a free day as a founder. Else are you even trying?

[Koen @FreriksKoen]

No we don't use php

[Koen @FreriksKoen]

@mathiasvrb What is taking up your time mostly?

[Koen @FreriksKoen]

Just did 1 hour of support, the only time I needed this week to keep our 50K MRR SaaS running during my 1 week holiday. 100K MRR won’t be different

[Koen @FreriksKoen]

@0xPaulvibe Usually it is building new features and growing, then spending nightly hours putting fires down. This way the train keeps rolling!

[Koen @FreriksKoen]

@RemyAlidarso Yea custom portals I think. Would probably take me 2 days to replace it

[Koen @FreriksKoen]

A good founder is able to push through alot of pain, and financial pressure increases this pain and thus pushes you to be a better founder. It can be part of your journey, it's not a bad thing. I've put myself in a bad financial situation many times by going all in. If you are not willing to go all in, do you even believe in your business?

[Koen @FreriksKoen]

@dark_coderz Sure doing this daily for some of my own apps and customer apps. Ai-OPS!

[Koen @FreriksKoen]

Customer didn't trust the other quotes for their custom app, so they asked us. Built it in 5 days. Others are still trying to charge 100K for this stuff 😅 AI is coming for these old boys...

[Koen @FreriksKoen]

@0xPaulvibe Sell

[Koen @FreriksKoen]

Pretty advanced talks with a first potential enterprise customer to run the entire Nodge platform on-prem while we are still closed beta 🙏

[Koen @FreriksKoen]

@BraydenWilmoth Yea I did this for 20 tools the past 3 months. Last week one of my customers at Nodge replaced a 20K/year too, now just 50 a month and little maintenance. When we get AI to do Ops the whole maintenance question is gone too.. I even see erp vendors losing to builds more often now

[Koen @FreriksKoen]

@cloneisjun Everything, why would there be limitations? All of it becomes better and easier.

[Koen @FreriksKoen]

If writing code by hand is dead, no amount of AI is resurrecting low-code. 🫠

I realized this last weekend after a long coding session with high-code, low-code and AI. This is my last quarter where I have to do some low-code, as we will fully migrate away from our last big application in Q1 2027.

Writing code by hand makes no more sense to me economically, and low-code even less. But sometimes momentum forces you to stick to existing tooling for just a little longer than you wish. Its a fate I have accepted for this quarter, as we need to deliver new features first for some new large customers.

Yeah, these tools might stick some AI on top of it or open up through an MCP. Do some rebranding while theyre at it... The abstraction layer might help you understand the code, but my agent does that better anyway. Its just extra information and mess that agents have to deal with.

Why pay big money for limitations and a lack of speed? And its never gonna be sovereign if you care about that.

Cant wait to be done with this migration myself.

[Koen @FreriksKoen]

@pcshipp I host everything on Nodge