Codaro

Codaro is my largest project and the one I developed the most. I worked on it for more than a year, from March 2025 to May 2026. Radosław Soysal and I started it on the night train back from the Econverse V4 final, and in practice it was mostly Radek's and my project. It became my first registered company, a Polish sp. z o.o., which still operates.

In that time Codaro won two awards at TeenCrunch, spent eight months at Google for Startups Campus, organised a hackathon for about 90 people, changed direction twice, and made its first sale. It was the first product I built from the very beginning that reached real traction.

We started from a problem we had ourselves as freelance developers. Developers are often paid by the hour, and the person paying has no live view of what is actually being done. Reported hours and real work drift apart, some developers inflate their time, and neither side fully trusts the other.

After the first pivot, the users became engineering leads. As teams grow and AI coding tools multiply the volume of code, managers lose sight of progress, spend hours in status meetings, and discover blockers and bottlenecks too late.

I was co-founder and CTO, and Radek was CEO. We agreed on that split because I did not want to carry the whole company at the time, but in practice my role reached well beyond engineering. I managed the developers, Radek and Dominik Dyga, wrote a large part of the code myself, made and presented most of our pitch decks, and created marketing content, including short videos. In the summer of 2025 I regularly spent 15-hour days coding.

The co-founders were Radek, Dominik and me. The starting team also included Wiktor Dźwigałowski, whom I met with Radek at Econverse V4, and Jan Matecki, Wiktor's friend. Dominik is Radek's friend. Kacper Kamiński joined during the TeenCrunch accelerator, where I was the only participant working on two projects at once. Awards, the residency and the hackathon were team results.

IDE plugins for VS Code and IntelliJ that capture real coding activity without interrupting the developer, and real-time connectors that stream that activity to the backend and on to a live dashboard.

AI pipelines that analyse code changes as they happen: plain-language summaries of what was done, review signals on the code itself, and early warnings about blockers, risky changes and bottlenecks.

A web dashboard for team leads with a live feed, team statistics and alerts, and later a B2C version of the plugin for individual developers that reviews their code and points out bottlenecks.

The core decision was to measure from the editor rather than the task board. Tickets show what someone said they did; editor activity and commits show what actually happened. The hard part was making that useful without turning it into surveillance, so the product summarises work for the developer's benefit as well, instead of streaming raw activity to a manager.

Everything ran on Google Cloud Platform. Because the product sees source code, trust was a technical requirement, not a marketing line: data stayed in the EU, customer code was never used to train models, and data was encrypted in transit and at rest. An MCP server let teams connect their own tools, and the plugins plus Git and Jira integrations could be set up in a few minutes.

We made a first deck, pitched it at several events and applied to the TeenCrunch accelerator. Pitches and conversations with managers and developers kept ending in the same place, which led to the first pivot in September 2025. After it we pitched to many investors.

The business model was a per-seat subscription with a free trial, aimed at software agencies, startups and larger teams. When B2B sales were slow, we tested the same product on individual developers instead, promoted it, and made our first sale.

TeenCrunch Demo Day, 13 June 2025: the Audience Award and, as Rzeczpospolita reported, a place at Google for Startups. The same day mTriage, my other project in the accelerator, won first place.

Residents at Google for Startups Campus in Warsaw from June 2025 to February 2026, alongside a cohort of startups selected for the programme: a coworking space, training, team retreats and many conversations with other founders.

Hackathon Codaro, 24 February 2026, at the Campus: 16 teams, about 90 participants and over 25,000 PLN in prizes. We had exactly one month to arrange the agenda, guests, participants, funding, venue, sponsors, partners and marketing. As far as I know, we were the only startup from the programme to organise its own event there. The team organised a second hackathon in July 2026.

First paying user on 16 March 2026, from the B2C version: real traction for a product I had built from the very beginning.

Talking to the people who would pay mattered more than how well we built. Two pivots in a year felt slow at the time, but each came from hearing the same objection again and again, and the second one is what finally produced a sale.

From January 2026 I was also building OpenRoad's Android app, and in May I stepped back from Codaro, for my own reasons, to focus on it. I am still an advisor to the team and good friends with all the founders. Radek continues as CEO with Kacper and Jan, and has since taken Codaro in a new direction.