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 any readable form.

New hires weren't the problem. The codebase was.

The Tools I Tried (And Why They All Failed)

I spent a long time looking for a fix before I decided to build one.

Confluence — Someone has to write it first. We never did. Nobody does.

Notion wikis — Outdated before you finish typing. Great intentions, zero maintenance.

NotebookLM — Genuinely great product. Doesn't support code files. Dead end.

ChatGPT/Claude — Paste your entire codebase manually or through CLI always updated manually. Sure.

Swimm and Mintlify — The closest things to what I needed.…