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Selling Self-Hosted Developer Tools: How Did You Get Your First 5 Customers?

Hey developers! I'm an indie developer building CodeGuard AI , a self-hosted AI-powered GitHub pull-request review tool built using Java 21 and Spring Boot. Unlike SaaS products, CodeGuard AI is distributed as source code. Buyers download it and deploy it in their own infrastructure. I've listed it…

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  1. 2026-11-13 12:28 · DEV Community — AI
    Selling Self-Hosted Developer Tools: How Did You Get Your First 5 Customers?

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