Korey Rideout

DOnavigator.com

Why I Built It

I’ve been using DigitalOcean since about 2015. Back then, I wa

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s running VM-based workloads with Droplets, managing my own database servers, setting up block storage, and building HA failover. These weren’t just experiments, they were real projects in production.

At one point, DigitalOcean invited me to their NYC headquarters to discuss how I was scaling and using their platform. They were genuinely interested in how developers like me were thinking long-term about infrastructure.

Since then, DigitalOcean has evolved. More tooling, more automation, more features. This is awesome, but also more to keep up with. I don’t want to dig through documentation every time I spin up a project or tweak a config.

What I Built

So I built DigitalOcean Navigator — a custom GPT AI assistant trained specifically to help developers work with DO faster and smarter.

  • Manage Droplets, domains, databases, and firewalls
  • Understand VPCs, snapshots, load balancers, and backups
  • Get clear answers from the latest DO documentation
  • Build confidently and move faster without breaking things

The XYZ Doohickey Company was founded in 1971, and has been providing quality doohickeys to the public ever since. Located in Gotham City, XYZ employs over 2,000 people and does all kinds of awesome things for the Gotham community.

Try It

If you’re a developer who wants to truly understand your stack from the first droplet onward this tool was made for you.
https://DOnavigator.com/