A software factory in the corner of your room.

Give it the work. The machines build it, check their own work, and tell you where they got to — on hardware you own, with the coding agents you already pay for.

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What a software factory is.

A factory takes work in one end and hands finished, inspected work out the other, and the person in it supervises rather than operates. A software factory is the same arrangement built out of machines and coding agents: you decide what should exist and you judge the result, and the grinding in between belongs to the machines. The point is not that it is faster to type. The point is that the work carries on when you are not there.

The shift you can run today.

Everything in this list is in the app now. It is the part of the factory that already runs.

  1. 1

    You give it the work

    Open a project, say what needs doing - typed, or dictated out loud in your own words - and hand it to a machine. Work can be split across several agents from different makers at once, each on its own task.

  2. 2

    It builds

    The agents you already use do the building, on your machines, for as long as the job takes. An hour of grinding is a normal shift, not something you sit and watch.

  3. 3

    It checks its own work

    A second, separate agent reviews what the first one built before it counts as done. The reviewer has its own copy of the work and no stake in the answer, which is the only way a review means anything.

  4. 4

    It tells you where it got to

    You see every machine and every agent in one place - working, finished, or stopped on a question. If one genuinely cannot decide, your phone buzzes and you answer from wherever you are.

The machines are yours.

Bought once, not rented by the hour

An agent that works for hours at a stretch is the most expensive possible thing to rent: it is never bursty, it never idles, and it does not stop. A machine standing in your own room is paid for once and then costs electricity.

Your agents, your subscriptions

DevThrottle does not write code and is not an agent. It runs the coding agents you already use and already pay for, side by side, and nothing about that arrangement changes when you add a second machine.

Open source, MIT licensed

The app that runs your factory is public source under the MIT license and runs on your own machines. Read it, change it, and keep running it — a subscription only ever pays for the parts we run for you.

What we are building next.

None of this is built yet, and none of it is in the app today. It is here because it is where the factory is going, and you should be able to see that before you decide whether to build one with us.

  • Machines with no screen. Enrol a box that has no desktop in front of it - a small Linux machine in the corner of the room - so it joins the factory, takes work, and reports back. Today every machine in the factory is one you sit at.
  • Work that arrives by itself. A queue the factory pulls the next job from, instead of a person starting each piece by hand.
  • Deciding the small things alone. A written mandate that says what a machine may settle for itself, so it stops asking about the things you do not care about and only interrupts you for the ones you do.
  • The morning report. One document waiting for you: what was built, what it decided on its own, what it tested, what passed, and the few things it wants you to look at.
  • A factory with more than one person around it. Shared machines and shared work for a team, rather than one developer and their own boxes.

The measure we hold ourselves to while we build it: how rarely the factory has to interrupt you before a piece of work is finished. A factory that wakes you all night is a factory that does not work.

Start with one machine.

A factory starts as the machine you are sitting at. Install the app, point it at a project, and give a couple of agents their own lane — that is the first shift. The second machine is the same install again. Windows 10 and 11, and macOS.

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Build your factory.

Create your account, install the app, and run your first shift on the machine you are already sitting at.

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