Why I'm Building CodeContext After 12-Hour Workdays

It's 2:47 AM. I just pushed my 327th commit this month. My girlfriend thinks I'm crazy. She's probably right.

But here's the thing - every single day at work, I watch brilliant developers waste hours on documentation. And I can't just sit back and accept it anymore.

The Breaking Point

It was 11 PM on a Thursday. I was debugging a data processing module that should've taken 20 minutes. Three hours later, I was still digging through outdated docs, Slack messages from 2019, and random GitHub issues.

The kicker? The solution was a single line of code. But finding it cost our team half a day of productivity.

That's when it hit me: We're solving this problem wrong.

The Real Cost Nobody Talks About

During my time at Ønskeskyen, I started tracking something interesting. Every time someone asked "how does this work?" in Slack, I logged it.

The results were depressing:

• Average response time: 2.5 hours

• Many questions never got answered
• The same questions repeated every few months

Do the math. That's thousands of hours lost. Not on building features. Not on fixing bugs. On explaining code that should explain itself.

Why Documentation Fails (It's Not What You Think)

Here's the uncomfortable truth: Documentation fails because we treat it as an afterthought. We write code first, ship it, then maybe document it if we have time.

But what if we flipped that?

What if documentation happened automatically, as you code?

Building CodeContext

I'm not going to pretend I have all the answers. But I know this problem is worth solving.

CodeContext is my attempt to make documentation:

• Automatic (not another task on your TODO list)
• Always accurate (updates with your code)
• Actually helpful (no more "TODO: Add description")

The Vision

Imagine opening any codebase and understanding it immediately. No archaeology required. No tribal knowledge needed. Just clear, current documentation that actually helps.

That's what I'm building.

Join Me

I'm looking for early adopters who are tired of the status quo. Developers who've felt the pain of bad documentation and want to be part of the solution.

If that's you, join the waitlist. Let's fix this together.