The founder crashed hard on energy drinks. Instead of accepting the crash, they architected the antidote.
Four years ago, I architected systems. Today, I architect the nervous system. The catalyst? A brutal crash after 72 hours of Red Bull and espresso chasing a production outage.
I spent the next six months reading peer-reviewed neuroscience. Not bro-science, not YouTube testimonials—actual papers from JAMA, Nutrients, and the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. I learned that most supplements are either placebos or spiked with crap that makes your heart feel like it's compiling a massive codebase.
So I built something different. A supplement stack with the same rigor I'd apply to production infrastructure. Transparent dosing. Evidence-based ingredients. No proprietary blends hiding behind marketing fluff.
Three months later, I shipped it to friends. Now punchDev serves developers who refuse to compromise on either their code or their wetware.
Every ingredient in punchDev ships with its dosage clearly labeled. No proprietary blends, no secret sauce. We publish our formulations because hiding behind mystery ingredients is how legacy supplement companies operate, and we're not legacy.
Every ingredient has peer-reviewed research. Not testimonials, not anecdotes—actual studies showing mechanism and efficacy. We cite them. You can read them. This is non-negotiable.
Every batch gets tested by independent labs for purity, potency, and heavy metals. The certs are public. If we find heavy metals, we bin the batch. No asterisks, no excuses.
Designed for people who go outside. 400 IU Vitamin D? That's optimized for sun exposure, not for developers living in front of three monitors.
We dose for indoor developers: 5000 IU D3, magnesium for electrolyte balance during long sessions, B-vitamins optimized for cognitive load.
Mystery ingredients, sugar crashes, heart palpitations. You get 30 minutes of focus followed by a 3-hour valley where you're browsing Hacker News on autopilot.
We use the minimum effective dose of caffeine paired with L-theanine to eliminate jitter and extend the plateau.
Proprietary blends, unproven ingredients, marketing by fitness influencers. Most don't publish their research or testing data.
We publish everything. Dosages, research, testing certs. This is how you build trust with engineers.
Developer-centric branding. Evidence-based formulations. Transparent dosing. Modular stacks that work together.
We speak your language. Garbage collection for your brain. CI/CD for your body. This is engineering applied to nutrition.
No secrets in our codebase. No secrets in our supplement facts. You know exactly what you're taking, at what dosage, and why.
Peer-reviewed research over bro-science. Citations over testimonials. We back every claim with actual data.
Built for developers, by developers. We iterate based on your feedback. Your optimizations become our features.
Ship code, not crashes. Optimize your wetware and ship faster. Every formulation is designed to unlock your potential.