Clidey: Automatic technical documentation for codebases — $3K revenue and 30%+ week-on-week growth in first 2.5 weeks
Jun 11, 2025 with Founder 1
Key Points
- Clidey generated $3,000 in revenue with six to seven customers in its first 2.5 weeks, growing at over 30% week-on-week before Demo Day.
- The product scans codebases to auto-generate internal documentation, bypassing knowledge bottlenecks from individual engineers at Series A and B companies.
- Clidey deploys as self-hosted software that never leaves a customer's network, addressing enterprise security and compliance requirements while the two-founder team closes a fundraising round.
Summary
Clidey generates technical documentation automatically from code repositories. The product targets Series A and B companies that need internal specifications during engineer onboarding, removing the dependency on whoever originally designed a system. Instead of extracting knowledge from individual contributors, Clidey scans repositories across an organization and builds documentation from the code itself.
For enterprise customers, Clidey runs as a self-hosted package that never transmits code outside the customer's network. This addresses both security concerns and compliance requirements.
Early traction
Clidey launched 2.5 weeks before Demo Day and had already generated $3,000 in revenue across six to seven customers, with growth exceeding 30% week-on-week. The founders are 40–50% through a fundraising round.
The two co-founders met at university hackathons ten years ago and are deliberately keeping the team small. Both founders are focused on automating documentation while staying lean to prove the model works before scaling headcount.
Clidey claims a 30% reduction in employee time spent on documentation, a figure they are leading with in sales conversations.