Issue №01 / May 2026Building in publicPennyWatch — in developmentVerity Interviews — coming soonTwo products. One standard.No bloat. No dark patterns. No filler.Issue №01 / May 2026Building in publicPennyWatch — in developmentVerity Interviews — coming soonTwo products. One standard.No bloat. No dark patterns. No filler.
CODERNATE
Building in public · early access openCodernate · Issue 01 · May 2026Read the devlog →

We’re done
waiting for better
software.

We’re building software that respects you. No bloat, no dark patterns, no filler — just tools that do exactly what they say.

PennyWatch
Your money, honest with you.
72% built→
Verity Interviews
Hire for what actually matters.
48% built→
// what we won’t doThe list grows as we learnLast edited Apr 28

We’re not building what other
companies are building.

01 / 7
Dark patterns

We don't profit from your confusion.

02 / 7
Data selling

Your transactions stay on-device.

03 / 7
Per-seat tax

We won't charge you for the people you work with.

04 / 7
Roadmap theatre

No "soon™." No quarter-long teasers. Just shipped.

05 / 7
Client work

We only build what we own.

06 / 7
Sales calls

Try the thing. If it fits, you'll know.

07 / 7
Outsourced support

You'll email a person on the team. By name.

// what we do

The opposite, mostly.

One-time pricing

Pay once. Own it. Use it forever.

Build in public

Weekly devlog. Real shas, real diffs, real reasons.

Sweat the copy

If a sentence doesn't earn its place, we cut it.

Honest defaults

The default settings are the right ones.

// our products

Two products.
One standard.

We build software we’d use ourselves — and we hold it to a simple test: does it earn the user’s trust?

№ 01In development
iOS · Android · Web

PennyWatch

Your money, finally honest with you.

Most finance apps make money from your confusion — upsells, data sales, dark nudges. PennyWatch doesn't. See where every dollar goes in a single glance. No ads, no upgrades, no hidden agenda. Just clear, honest answers to one question: where is my money going?

Zero dark patternsNo subscription trapPrivate by defaultOn-deviceInstant insights
0Ads. Ever.
$0Sold customer data
1×One-time price · no subscription
∞Yours to keep
Get early access
pennywatch.app
This month · May
$4,652.18
of $5,200 budget · $548 left
↓ 8% vs Apr
Housing$2,040 · 72%
Food$1,308 · 46%
Transport$792 · 28%
Subscriptions$512 · 18%
No upsells. No ads. Ever.On-device · End-to-end private
№ 02In development
Web · Team

Verity Interviews

Hire for what actually matters.

First impressions and gut feelings make expensive hiring mistakes. Verity gives your team a structured framework — proven question templates, live scoring, and side-by-side candidate comparison. Ask better questions. Capture real signals. Make decisions you can stand behind.

Structured rubricsBias-aware scoringSide-by-side compareTeam calibrationATS-friendly
4Dimensions per rubric
3×Reviewer calibration
0Training required to start
<5mDecision time, post-loop
Get early access
verity.ai · loop_24
Senior Engineer — Round 2
Rubric: 4 dimensions · calibrated by 3 reviewers
3 / 7 reviewed
CandidateSys designCode craftOwnershipCommunicationScore
JK
Jordan K.
92
88
82
90
88
RM
Riley M.
70
78
74
76
74
AT
Alex T.
60
64
58
62
61
Bias-aware scoring · blind comparison enabledNext: debrief →
// by the numbers

Day one.
No pretending otherwise.

Honest numbers. No spin.MAY 21, 2026
2
products in development
PennyWatch · Verity
01
4
humans on the team
small on purpose
02
0
outside investors
independent · forever
03
0
client gigs — ever
we only build what we own
04
0
paying customers yet
day one, and we're fine with that
05
∞
years of conviction
we're not going anywhere
06
// the difference

How we’re different
from most software companies.

We have a short answer for “why should I use your thing over the incumbent.” The long answer is the table below.

Dimension
Most software companies
The incumbents
// us
Codernate
01Pricing

Free with upsells, then tiered subscriptions, then per-seat

One-time price. Own it. Use it forever.

02Your data

Used for training, sold to partners, leaked every 18 months

On-device by default. We literally cannot see it.

03Onboarding

12-step wizard, mandatory tutorial, paywall at step 9

Open the app. Start using it. No interstitials, ever.

04Support

Tier-1 chatbot · 48h "we received your ticket"

Email someone on the team. By name. Reply within a day.

05Roadmap

"Soon™" · feature flags hidden behind enterprise tier

Weekly devlog. Real diffs. We say what we shipped and why.

06Defaults

Optimised to drive engagement metrics

Optimised for whether you'd recommend us to a friend.

// why we exist
“
The software we needed didn’t exist. So we’re building it.
The Codernate Team
founders · signed, May 2026

We’ve spent years frustrated by finance apps that sell your data, hiring tools that make bias easier, and productivity software that’s more feature catalogue than actual product.

We kept saying “someone should fix this.” Eventually we realised that someone should be us.

Codernate doesn’t do client work or bespoke builds. We build our own products, own them fully, and ship them to real users. Every decision starts with the same question: does this actually make the product better for the people using it?

01No dark patterns

We don't profit from confusion. If you can't tell what a screen does, we built it wrong.

02No feature bloat

Focused tools that do one thing well. Saying no is the job.

03No filler copy

We say what we mean. No PR-speak. No hype words. No "solutions."

04Earn trust first

Revenue follows trust — it doesn't lead it. We start where most companies stop.

// early access

When we ship, you’ll be the first to know.

Two products. One list. No drip campaigns, no FOMO emails — we’ll write to you when there’s something real to try.

Unsubscribe anytime · one email per product launch, max.

// a note from us

We don’t have customers yet. We don’t have testimonials. What we have is conviction — and an unreasonable amount of taste.

We’d genuinely love to hear what you wish software did — even if we’re not the ones to build it.

The Codernate Team
Building since 2026
hello@codernate.com