By Luke Whiting

How Hatchet Keeps Background Tasks from Ruining Your Day

Running data pipelines and background tasks at scale shouldn’t drive you crazy. Alexander Belanger and Gabriel Ruttner built Hatchet to make sure it doesn’t. Managing background tasks sounds easy – until you hit unexpected timeouts or realize your su

By Luke Whiting

How Zapi Makes Building Internal Tools Less Painful

Building custom internal tools can feel like pulling teeth - especially if you’re not a developer. Thomas Jiang and Jonathan Low built Zapi to bridge the frustrating gap between detailed product requirement documents (PRDs) and working prototypes. Now

By Luke Whiting

How Steel.dev Turns AI Agents Into True Browser Ninjas

Building browser automation should be easy—like, “why didn’t anyone do this sooner?” easy. But spinning up cloud browsers that AI agents can programmatically control usually means battling through Kubernetes configurations or praying your Puppeteer sc

By Luke Whiting

How Turso Made SQLite Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

SQLite is popular for a reason. The open-source database system is simple, lightweight, and fast, and it’s grown into the most widely deployed database in the world, by far. Most people touch it every day, even if we don’t realize it; for example, the

By Luke Whiting

How Tigris Data Makes Object Storage Screaming Fast, Globally

For nearly 20 years, “object storage” meant Amazon S3. But S3’s popularity turned its API into a standard. Now, startups are innovating with S3-compatible storage, integrating with AWS SDKs. Tigris Data capitalizes on this shift to deliver real-time p

By Luke Whiting

How MyMahi Moves Fast Enough to Keep up With Teenagers

Ah, the college years: an exciting, eye-opening period of learning and growth. For some students, that is. Others are better served by skipping that chapter and heading straight into a skilled trade. New Zealand’s educational system is wising up to th

By Luke Whiting

How Lightward Is Betting on Health…and Winning

Lightward is many things—a creative incubator, a tech studio—but if you ask founder Isaac Bowen and his partner Abe Lopez, it’s fundamentally a philosophy experiment. Can a company be solely focused on health (in every permutation), use it as an anima

By Luke Whiting

How CodeCrafters Helps Devs Upskill Faster

Learning complex new programming skills isn’t for the faint of heart. The founders of CodeCrafters wanted to make it easier, so they built a structured learning platform to help devs upskill on their own time. Faster, More Flexible Learning Rather tha

By Luke Whiting

How Mocha Makes Apps as Easy as Writing a Doc

Building an app used to mean wrestling with stacks of code, endless configurations, and late-night debugging. Mocha changes all that, making app creation feel as natural as jotting down your thoughts. Ben Reinhart and Nicholas Charriere set out to dis

By Luke Whiting

How Reflex Makes Web Development Suck Less

Building web apps can feel like death by a thousand tiny papercuts: constant tweaks, endless Googling, and a never-ending cycle of debug-deploy-repeat. Alek Petuskey and Nikhil Rao are on a mission to make all that hurt less. Their platform lets devs

By Luke Whiting

How Amplified.ai Keeps Innovation Out of the Shadows

What’s the most important part of our patent system? If you said: “protecting and sharing good ideas,” Chris Grainger agrees with you. The founder of Amplified uses AI to make it easy to search patents that have been granted by the USPTO. Searching fo