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KERNSTACK for Founders

Founders choose KERNSTACK because the first stack sets the company’s metabolism: one declared project that the founding team (and their coding agents) can build, deploy, and operate end-to-end, priced by usage so the pre-revenue months cost storage pennies, on European infrastructure that does not become a due-diligence finding when the first enterprise customer or investor asks where the data lives.

stack.json IaC Functions (WASM)Agent Sandboxes NoSQL Tables

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Why Founders outgrow assembled cloud and tool collages

Founders shipping the first production system without a platform hire — where the stack must be operable by the people who also sell and support it.

Velocity without the second job

The founding stack’s real cost is attention: every console adopted is a console somebody must understand during the first outage. KERNSTACK keeps the surface to one file, one CLI, and one balance, so the team’s platform knowledge is an afternoon deep — and the same afternoon covers previews for investor demos and the production system customers use.

Agents multiply a founding team, safely

A founder’s scarcest resource is senior hours; agents supply drafts, the platform supplies the checkpoint. Agent work arrives as branch plus demo link plus plan; the founder approves in minutes with the destructive items called out. That loop — not raw model power — is what makes a three-person team ship like eight without shipping anything unreviewed.

Free tier starts with 200 credits; Builder is €200/month with 20,000 — the stack is cheaper than the first platform hire’s first day
Idle means storage-only spend: nights, weekends, and pre-launch months are nearly free
Customer-facing proof early: live previews for demos, agent-built prototypes on real infrastructure

stack.json — Founders Stack plan · deploy

{
  "stack": { "target": "startup.default" },
  "gateway": { "routes": [{ "name": "api", "target": { "kind": "function", "name": "api" } }] },
  "resources": {
    "functions": [{ "name": "api" }],
    "tables": [{ "name": "users", "key_name": "user_id", "key_type": "S", "indexes": [] }],
    "buckets": [{ "name": "uploads" }]
  }
}

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What does it cost before we have revenue?

Mostly storage at 0.04 credits per GB-hour; idle compute is zero. The free tier’s 200 starter credits cover real experimentation, and Builder (€200 for 20,000 credits) comfortably covers an early product’s month.

Will we outgrow it and face a rewrite?

The growth path is additive — workers for long jobs, workflows for processes, indexes for search — inside the same declaration. Leaving later, if scale demands it, starts from clean code and exportable data, not from a proprietary runtime.

Can we really run this without a DevOps hire?

That is the design point: no clusters, no VPCs, no per-service IAM. Plan, approve, deploy is the whole operational liturgy, and coding agents draft most changes for your review. Hire platform people when the product earns them, not before.

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