Team of 3
Andrea- business, italian
Victoria- Belarus, design
Jan (yon)- German, technical
pre-seed $300k
relationship manager for career networking
Sit between phone contact app (not enough) and CRM (too expensive)
WatermelonDB and LiveStore- offline database synced to EdgeDB
- Wrote an adapter, considering moving to LiveStore (developed by founder of Prisma)
- Would ask us to write an adapter, but what they have is already working well enough
- Had to do a batching optimization
- Watermelon is a cache, and once it is synced, the app is offline
- Yury: How do you sync between watermelon and EDB?
Has used Elm for a long time
React Native/tRPC
Yury wants to share the query
Chose EdgeDB because
- Ancient technology below
- Powerful relational capabilities
- UI for non-technical people
- AskAI is good even though it’s dump
  - Uses it to help him write queries
- Likes support
  - Is one of the more advanced users
  - In some other communities, questions go unanswered
Would pay for automatic backups
- Manual backups with rollbacks will be available
Had trouble with ops
Doesn’t have a blog
Jan will look for their reasoning for choosing EdgeDB

Suggestions

UI suggestions
- Navigation with data explorer- the way JSON values are displayed makes it hard to see results of queries
  - Loading large types is time consuming
- Make it possible for non-technical people to create views in data explorer
Vector generation of fields
- Uses GPT4 API for their vector generation
- Expose a formulate that users can give their API key and it will automatically generate?
Why not use EdgeDB Auth
- Has already integrated Apple login. Doesn’t want to lose TouchID

To do