About Tekyous

What is Tekyous?

Tekyous is an interactive tech stack builder and tool discovery platform. It lets you visually plan your architecture on a canvas, explore how tools relate to each other, and discover curated developer tools with detailed profiles, scores, and comparisons - all in one place.

Who is Tekyous for?

Primarily developers and founders who need to make tool decisions. That includes:

• →Full-stack engineers evaluating frameworks, databases, or hosting options
• →AI and ML engineers building inference pipelines or LLM-backed applications
• →Data engineers and analysts designing data infrastructure
• →Indie hackers and technical founders planning an MVP stack
• →Anyone who has ever felt paralysed by the number of options in the modern developer tooling landscape

But Tekyous is not limited to a purely technical audience. The catalogue includes AI and no-code tools alongside traditional developer tooling - making it a useful starting point for non-technical founders who want to understand the modern technology landscape. The interactivity of the platform, paired with the learning resources linked to each tool, can make the tech world feel more approachable.

What makes Tekyous different?

Tekyous combines two things that have always been separate:

• →Tools directories list and compare tools - they may also show alternatives. But you just browse; there are no recommendations on how to combine tools, no visual layer, no interactivity. It's purely informational.
• →Diagram tools let you draw architecture, but they know nothing about the tools themselves - compatibility, trade-offs, or what pairs well with what. It's purely visual.

And while stack recommendation tools exist, they're mostly static: fill a form, get a result by email, no iteration. Tekyous brings all three layers together - informational, visual, and contextual - on a live canvas. As you add tools, the platform surfaces hints, conflicts, and suggestions in real time, based on actual tool relationships in the database. The core of the experience is the Sandbox: a free canvas where you explore, build, and get contextual hints as you go.

Is Tekyous free?

Yes - the tools catalogue and stack builder are fully free and require no account. Future paid plans will add extras like unlimited cloud stack saving and AI usage, but browsing and building will always remain free.

How does the stack builder recommend tools?

There are two ways the builder surfaces suggestions:

• →Questionnaire mode generates a starting stack based on your project type and experience level, using a set of predefined rules and tool scores. It's intentionally opinionated - think of it as a sensible, general starting point rather than a personalised analysis.
• →Tool relationships power the builder's suggestions - the platform knows which tools commonly pair together and surfaces them as next steps. Canvas hints (available in both modes) go further, analysing your stack in real time to flag conflicts, missing dependencies, and common pairings.

AI-powered suggestions are on the roadmap and will be layered on top of both modes as a chat interface - see the Roadmap.

What kinds of tech stacks does Tekyous cover?

Predefined stacks in Tekyous are organised into three types, each covering a different layer of the developer workflow:

• →Project stacks - curated tool sets for building a specific type of project: a web app, data pipeline, mobile app, automation workflow, and more. These are used as the starting point in the Questionnaire mode.
• →Infrastructure stacks - tools for hosting and running a specific application on your own server: databases, containers, reverse proxies, and servers assembled to self-host something like n8n or Ghost.
• →Developer stacks - a developer's personal workflow toolkit: IDE, AI coding assistant, version control, and CI/CD - the tools used while building, regardless of what's being built.

In Sandbox mode you can mix any tools freely - there are no type boundaries. The stack type classification only applies to predefined stacks in the catalogue.