Independent and answering only to customers

No venture capital, no parent company. Codebahn is self-funded and answering to its customers. That is deliberate.

What independent means

The roadmap comes from customers and from using the product. When those two inputs agree, we build. When they conflict, we talk to more customers. There is no third input.

No investor sets the direction. Nobody can force a sale: there are no investors. If the company were ever sold, the Terms require 30 days' notice of the assignment (16.3), the exit terms still hold, and leaving costs nothing. The discipline is doing what people want, refusing to bloat it, and being straight about the edges before you sign.

Why it matters for you

VC-funded products serve the growth target, then the customer. Priorities shift at Series B. Features get added for the next fundraising slide, not because anyone asked. Terms change after acquisition.

GitHub was independent, then Microsoft. The terms survived; the trajectory didn't. GitLabwent public and the per-seat pricing climbed. The pattern repeats: grow, raise, monetize harder, pivot to enterprise.

Independent means the incentive is to keep you, not to convert you. Every month is a re-election. That pressure is the point.

The trade-off

It's one person today. Every plan gets the same support: email and in-app chat, answered by the person building the product. That doesn't change as Codebahn grows. See what happens if that person is unavailable.

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