Three minutes, no laptop, and a long drive still in my legs. I pitched the platform at KitchenPitch, FreshMango's pitch day, and left out the best thing we are building. Here is why that was the right call, what the mentors fixed afterwards, and the part where I did not recognize the accelerator CEO.
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Every pre-seed deck leads with a growth chart, and most of those charts are statistical noise. Here are the numbers we actually watch: time-to-first-deploy, activation, and gross margin per workload type, and why.
Can a two-person company be trusted with your production workloads? That question deserves specific answers instead of vibes. Here's our threat model, what's done, and what honestly isn't.
People keep asking about our roadmap. Investors want timelines. Beta users want features. My therapist wants to know why I twitch every time someone says 'scope creep.' So here it is-five steps from scrappy MVP to enterprise cloud domination, complete with the delusion, optimism, and questionable life choices that got us here.
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We got accepted into Google Cloud for Startups. Yes, we're building a tool to help you escape vendor lock-in, and yes, Google is giving us credits. The irony isn't lost on us.
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I went to sleep that night feeling like I'd conquered the cloud. Look at me, I thought, debugging infrastructure that AWS architects couldn't fix. I'm basically a DevOps deity now. Oh, sweet summer child.
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After spending the GDP of a small nation on AWS and losing what remained of my sanity to YAML files, I did what any reasonable developer would do: I started a company to fix it.
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