Martin Donadieu

Martin Donadieu is a French software developer and solo founder best known as the creator of Capgo, an open-source live update (over-the-air) platform for Capacitor mobile apps. Capgo lets developers push JavaScript and asset fixes straight to users' phones instead of waiting days for App Store or Google Play review, and it is built and run without venture capital.

Before going solo, Donadieu worked in the startup world and co-founded the startup Naas in 2019. He left Naas in July 2021 to work for himself and spent his first six months rebuilding Captime, a CrossFit and interval workout timer app he had made years earlier, which had become a small side business earning a few hundred dollars a month during the pandemic.

Capgo grew out of a Captime problem. In December 2021, production bugs pushed him to look for a way to ship code updates without a new store release, but Ionic's Appflow was too expensive for a small developer and Microsoft App Center had dropped Cordova and Capacitor support. He wrote an open-source plugin that downloads a new app bundle from a URL, and when teams on GitHub asked for a hosted version, he turned it into the paid Capgo service on top of Supabase.

Capgo has since grown into a bootstrapped company with a small remote team, operated through the Estonian company Digital Shift OÜ, and it maintains well over a hundred open-source Capacitor plugins. Donadieu shares the numbers in public: his X bio tracks the business toward a $50K MRR goal, and Capgo's verified TrustMRR page showed about $33K in MRR in late 2026.

He also documents the solo-founder path on his English-language podcast Solos and earlier on the French show Indie Makers. He lives on the Portuguese island of Madeira.