Stellify

Building in public here. I'm Matt, solo founder working on Stellify - a new type of code editor. I've been building this as a side project for 6 years and I had the concept in my head way before then!

The problem I'm solving: All code editors I'm aware of store code as text files. This makes certain types of collaboration and refactoring really difficult. What if code was stored as structured, searchable data instead?

What I've built:

• Browser-based Laravel development environment

• JSON-based code storage (every token, route, element is a database entry)

• "Impossible refactoring" - update something once, it changes everywhere

• Built for real-time collaboration (still perfecting this)

Where I'm at:

• Core functionality works

• About to create professional video tutorials

Let me know what you think of the concept.

Building this has been humbling - turns out reinventing how code editors work is hard 😅