Nour

Nour

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Engineer, Building in public 💻☀️

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Backend Engineer at GymShark 🦈 Passionate about AI and System Design, building for education and community.

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Maker History

  • Cascode
    CascodeBuild. Break. Brainstorm.
    Apr 2026
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    Joined Product HuntApril 11th, 2026

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Cascodep/cascodeNour

1mo ago

🚀 MCP Cascode 0.8.0 is here

Your AI editor just got superpowers for distributed systems design. I've shipped a remote MCP server that connects Claude, Cursor, VS Code, OpenCode, and Windsurf directly to your Cascode account over OAuth 2.1. No API keys. No copy-paste. Just your AI editor talking natively to your diagrams. **What's new in 0.8.0:** **Proper auth, done right** OAuth 2.1 with PKCE and dynamic client registration. Per-user token scoping and audience-bound access tokens mean your diagrams stay yours. **Five MCP tools out of the box** list, get, import, export, and delete diagrams straight from your editor. Ask your AI assistant to pull up your architecture, tweak it, and push it back. **Terraform CloudFormation round-trips** this is the big one. Convert between formats while preserving every node and edge. Infrastructure-as-code finally has a format-agnostic home. **One-click install for Cursor and VS Code** CLI for Claude Code and OpenCode. --- Cascode is an interactive playground for distributed systems build AWS architectures, simulate message flows, inject failures, and develop real production intuition. 0.8.0 is the bridge between visual architecture design and the AI-native workflows engineers actually live in. Try it at cascode.uk would love to hear how you're using it in the comments!
Nour

2mo ago

System Design shouldn't be memorised. It should be experienced. Let's talk about it.

For too long, learning distributed systems has meant staring at static diagrams and hoping the concepts eventually click. You can recite CAP theorem, explain eventual consistency, draw a microservices diagram from memory, and still freeze when something breaks in production.

I know that feeling well. My background is in Mechatronics Engineering and I currently work as a software engineer at Gymshark. Distributed systems was never formally taught to me. I learned it the hard way, and that gap between theory and intuition is what pushed me to build Cascode, alone, around my full time job.

It s a browser-based canvas where you assemble real AWS architectures, watch live message flows run through them, inject failures, and see what cascades.

Cascodep/cascodeNour

2mo ago

Multi-User Real Time Collaboration Sessions

Share and brainstorm AWS Architecture Simulations with your team members in seconds!

Release: https://cascode.uk/releases/0.7.0

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