About

CodeBakery is a small, independent software studio in Germany. It publishes its own products rather than taking client work, which is what makes it possible to keep them narrow and to keep maintaining them.

Nine products so far, across family life, professional work and developer tooling. They have little in common on the surface; what they share is that each one started with a problem worth solving properly and stayed small enough to stay good.

Some of that work is public. Watchfire is released under the AGPL, and DeviceYard ships its command-line client on npm — both are meant to run on hardware their operator owns, which only works if you can read what they do.

How it works

Products are built one at a time and supported after launch. When one stops earning its place it is archived openly rather than left to rot in a store listing — you will see that status on this site before you see it anywhere else.

Every product publishes its own privacy policy, and this site links to all of them. What each one stores, and whether it carries advertising, is stated there rather than summarised into a slogan here.

Who runs it

CodeBakery is founded and operated by Nicolas Mehlei, a software engineer based in Germany. Company details required by German law are on the imprint.

Questions about a product, bug reports and press enquiries all go to hello ⟨at⟩ codebakery ⟨dot⟩ net, and reach a real person.