Your entire dev stack.
Zero setup. No Docker. $0 API costs. Ship securely. One-click deploy.

17 years of workarounds.
One app to end them all.

It started with Dreamweaver's built-in server. Then WAMP. Then XAMPP when I moved to PHP. Every upgrade cycle was the same story — I needed a new PHP version, but I had to wait for XAMPP to ship a new release just so I could use it. The thing I actually wanted was the runtime. The thing I got was a bundled installer on someone else's schedule.

So I started compiling PHP from source. On Windows. Solving extension conflicts by hand, hunting down the right php_*.dll, matching thread-safe builds to the right VC++ redistributable. I wrote a batch script to automate the whole thing — because if I'm going to fight this fight, I'm only fighting it once.

Then I built a custom Python-based dev server — and that was the end of XAMPP for me. It was so good I started using it for my JavaScript and TypeScript projects too, instead of the dev servers that ship with bundlers. That server pulled me all the way into Python, and I never looked back.

Every project I built introduced a new challenge and a new learning curve. And trust me — I've built a lot of them. Custom domains. WSL. SSL certificates that had to loop back into WSL correctly. Every time I hit a wall, I wrote another script. Another workaround. Another thing that "just works" — on my machine, for my setup, until the next Windows update broke something.

After 17 years of building on Windows — patching, scripting, automating the ugly parts of local development — I realized all these solutions needed a home. Not just for me. For the new wave of developers, the vibe coders picking up their first framework, and the experienced devs who are tired of fighting the same fights.

That's Donk. Every workaround I ever wrote, distilled into one app. Every problem described in the section above — the runtime circus, the terminal zoo, the database gauntlet, the secrets catastrophe — solved. Not because I read about these problems. Because I lived them.

Stop fighting your OS.
Start shipping.
Donk handles the rest.