A MANIFESTO FOR THE ONE-PERSON STARTUP

You are the product, the sales, the support — and the engineering team.

Something has to give. Usually it's the engineering — the bugs pile up, the backlog rots, the feature you promised three months ago ships in four.

Developerly is the engineering team you hire the day you incorporate — for $49 a month.

invite-only · rolling weekly · reply to the confirmation email to tell us about your project

● while you slept last night

03:14 task claimed · issue #247

03:14 → reading mailers/, reproducing failure

03:15 ✓ tests pass (11 assertions)

03:15 ✓ PR #891 opened for review

03:16 task claimed · issue #252

03:16 → implementing /healthz endpoint

03:18 ✓ PR #892 opened

03:18 backlog empty. standing by.

HOW IT ACTUALLY WORKS

Four steps. No magic. Just a teammate that codes.

install

Point it at your repo.

Install the GitHub app. Drop a CLAUDE.md with your conventions. Done — that's the onboarding.

$ gh auth + CLAUDE.md

assign

Give it a ticket.

From Kanban, Slack, or a GitHub issue. Forward the bug report. @-mention it. It picks work up however you throw it.

$ @developerly fix this

ship

Wake up to an open PR.

It plans, codes, writes tests, runs them, and opens a PR with a clean description. You review like any PR.

$ PR #891 · ready for review

iterate

Leave review comments like normal.

It reads the thread, pushes commits, replies to each comment, re-requests review. Merge when you're happy.

$ addressed · re-requested review

A RANDOM TUESDAY NIGHT

Here's what a real Developerly run
looks like, end to end.

One bug report forwarded from a user. One command. Four minutes of agent time later, a PR merged into main — tests, review cycle, and all. Hit replay to watch it happen.

developerly · t_247 · session log

[02:14:08] slack/#bugs — @user: "password reset email has a broken image?"

[02:14:09] @developerly claimed this thread as t_247

[02:14:10] → reading CLAUDE.md, app/mailers/, config/environments/

[02:14:14] → reproducing failure in test/mailers/password_test.rb

[02:14:17] ✗ 1 failure · image_tag produces protocol-relative url

[02:14:18] → plan: switch image_tag → asset_url. same pattern in invite_mailer.

[02:14:19] → edit: app/views/mailers/reset.html.erb (−1 +1)

[02:14:21] → edit: app/mailers/password_mailer.rb (+3)

[02:14:23] → rerunning test suite

[02:14:41] ✓ 4 runs, 11 assertions, 0 failures

[02:14:42] → opening PR #891 against main

[02:14:45] ✓ PR #891 opened · @ellis requested for review

[08:32:11] @ellis reviewed with 1 comment

"nit: use url_for instead, consistent with other mailers"

[08:32:22] → pushing fix to address review comment

[08:32:24] → also found same pattern in invite_mailer, patching

[08:32:41] ✓ all tests pass, re-requested review

[08:34:02] ✓ PR #891 merged by @ellis

[08:34:02] done · report→merge: 6h 19m · agent time: 4m 12s

WHY I BUILT THIS

I'm building this while holding a full-time job and running another business. My "free time" is whatever's left over — and it's never enough to ship the features I want to ship.

So I built the team I couldn't hire. I scope a ticket before bed and wake up to an open PR — a whole engineering team working while I sleep. That's the only way I get to build.

Trae Robrock · founder · @developerly

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