Tim Cadenbach
Founder of www.cordango.com, ex Head of community @DeepL, thinking about the next iteration of nocode, AI, DevRel and Community
Cordango
Latest Posts
We Open Sourced the Foundation of Cordango
The beta is live, we're raising, and the layer underneath the whole thing is now Apache-2.0 on GitHub. Here is what 437 lines of YAML actually turn into, and why giving this part away is the most useful thing we've done all year.
Low-Code, Vibe Code, and Shadow IT on Dope
Low-code platforms were governed but slow. AI tools made building free and ungoverned. The result is shadow IT on dope, and the fix is not banning the tools, it's a third era where the platform is the context, not the app builder.
Sorry, This Repo Only Speaks German
Germany is short more than a hundred thousand IT people, our cities are full of developers who work in English all day, and our public sector code politely locks them all out. The official language argument is real, and it's also being applied to the wrong layer.
EA Just Sold for $55 Billion. At Least It Wasn't Microsoft.
The biggest leveraged buyout in history closed yesterday and one of the biggest game companies on earth now belongs to Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, Silver Lake, and Jared Kushner. I'm relieved about exactly one thing, and worried about most of the rest.
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Cordango
Stop buying software. Start operating.
An AI-composable business OS made in Germany. Describe the internal app you need in plain language and Cordango builds, hosts, and secures it. EU hosted and GDPR compliant.
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Recent Projects
A library that turns your model into a fully working API, define your model as markdown (soon), json or c#.
The open foundation of the Cordango application platform. Define complete business applications in a portable app format, run them on Cordango, or deterministically generate conventional source code you can own and deploy anywhere.
Sample applications for the Cordango application platform and foundation. Theese examples can be both used to generate standalone apps or directly on the platform.
Drop-in proxy to make any MCP server, LLM and any HTTP+JSON API speak multiple languages easily. Powered by DeepL..and it can do way more!