Founderos: a Visual Ide Idea

Hey everyone — we’re a small group of engineers building something we’ve always wanted to exist.

Every time we start a new project, it’s the same dance: sketch a system in Whimsical or Miro, then spend hours wiring up Redis, queues, Postgres, Stripe, Clerk, Posthog, etc. We finally asked — why can’t we just turn that system diagram into working code?

So we're building FounderOS. It’s a visual IDE + CLI for full-stack TypeScript apps. You lay out your architecture — APIs, queues, caches, databases, and integrations — and FounderOS scaffolds all the boilerplate in one go. It doesn’t use AI to generate code (we want predictable, deterministic output). Instead, it’s powered by a nightly-tested library of prebuilt modules for modern TS stacks: Prisma, Redis, BullMQ, Stripe, Clerk, Posthog, and more.

When you click Sync, FounderOS: * Generates typed specs for your services * Creates controllers and OpenAPI docs * Injects integrations (like Stripe or Redis) via clean, typed interfaces * Exposes typed and versioned SDKs between services so everything stays safe end to end

The goal: go from a diagram → a working TypeScript monorepo without writing setup code. Then open it in your editor and start on business logic immediately.

FounderOS will be fully open source — all templates and modules in the repo. The paid product will just be the visual builder + CLI that tie it together.

Existing teams can integrate too by writing spec files or exposing OpenAPI specs. It’s not totally plug-and-play yet, but we think most codebases can adopt it gradually.

In short: * Design your system visually — services, APIs, data models * Pick integrations and third-party modules * Click Sync, and FounderOS generates the boilerplate for you

We’d love feedback on whether this would actually make your life easier. What would you expect from a tool like this? What would make you actually use it?

Thanks for reading — happy to answer anything.