foundrydock.com

What It Is

FoundryDock is a “founder-first” open-source, self-hosted toolkit for startup founders to manage sensitive materials: fundraising pitch decks, board meetings, contracts/NDAs/minutes, brand assets, and external sharing. Its core position is not traditional SaaS hosting, but keeping data inside the user’s own VPS, cloud account, or Supabase project.

Core Features and Architecture

The product modules cover founder workflows: Pitch decks are created as 16:9 investor slides with a React/TSX code-first approach, supporting templates, drag-and-drop ordering, presenter mode, and notes; Document workspace provides rich-text documents, categories, and structured templates; Material library is used to manage assets by company and folder; Board meetings manages meeting lists, agendas, details, and materials, and can send email invitations via Supabase Edge Functions; Brand hub supports logos, colors, usage guidelines, expiring share links, and read-only deck views. Deployment involves cloning the GitHub repository, configuring .env, running Supabase migrations, and running or building the Vite application.

Pricing and Availability

The page clearly states that it is 100% open source, self-hosted, requires no SaaS subscription, and does not require creating a vendor account. Actual costs come from servers, cloud resources, Supabase, and operations labor. No information was found about a commercial edition, hosted version, SLA, or paid support.

Pros and Cons

The advantages are strong data sovereignty, no vendor lock-in, auditable code, costs that do not scale by seat, and features focused on high-sensitivity founder scenarios. The drawbacks are also clear: deployment, database migrations, environment variables, reverse proxy setup, and similar tasks require technical capability; the permission model, collaborative editing, compliance certifications, and commercial support are not sufficiently explained in the main text.

Who It’s For and Access from China

It is suitable for early-stage companies or founding teams with engineering capability that place a high priority on the privacy of fundraising and board materials; it is less suitable for business teams looking for an out-of-the-box solution. Access from China cannot be determined from the text alone; however, because it depends on GitHub and potentially the Supabase ecosystem, domestic network conditions, payment, and cloud service options should be evaluated independently. Alternatives can be combined based on needs, such as Notion, Pitch, DocSend, Feishu Docs, Yuque, or Shimo Docs.