Pre-seed

Traffic#

Writes contend for the database. Hiring opens. Incidents begin.

Raising the next round#

Reach 5.00k users to raise Seed. The round pays $15.0k and costs 19% of the Company. Then the Seed Era starts.

What arrives#

Components

Connection Pooler, Cache, Read Replica, Auth Provider

Research

Health checks, Managed identity, Caching, Connection pooling, Read replicas, Eager loading, Percentiles, Alerting, Funnel analytics, Python, Node.js cluster mode, libuv thread pool, Django, Symfony, Sinatra, Flask, Timeouts and retries, Load balancing algorithms, Continuous delivery, Code review, Automated tests

Incidents

Traffic spike, Instance failure, Connection exhaustion, Event loop block, Memory leak, Slow query, Bad deploy, Data breach

Features

Password login, Paid plans, Email digests