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Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by jzelinskie »

ignoramous wrote: post #27
kkajla wrote: post #10

We’re Aditya and Karan, the co-founders of Warrant ( https://warrant.dev/ ). We build APIs and infrastructure to help developers implement authorization and access control in their apps. Implementing flexible authorization that grows with your application is difficult. Many products only need authentication early on but eventually require authorization; however, adding complex authorization to a mature, high usage pr…

Congratulations on the launch, Aditya and Karan. Building SaaS from India (assuming that you eventually will) is always going to be advantageous [0] given the comparatively lower wages and access to a global client-base. Apart form that, in what ways does warrant differentiate itself from authzed.io, another YC-backed startup? I see that both these services are influenced by Zanzibar, but I am particularly curious if…

Hey! Thanks for the mention!

Authzed is focused on delivering all of the capabilities of Zanzibar (rewrites, consistency, scalability) in a consumable form to everyone outside of Google. We've started with Zanzibar and are iterating from there, rather than cherry-picking particular concepts from the paper.

You can checkout our post on "What is Zanzibar" to learn why you'd want the whole package: https://authzed.com/blog/what-is-zanzibar/

Congrats to Warrant! There's plenty of room for innovation in the developer UX for permissions, especially with frontend code.

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by twojacobtwo »

brunobannach wrote: post #3

Hi HN, we are Bruno and Guilherme of Jestor ( https://jestor.com/ ). We make a no-code tool for COOs that need to scale complex offline operations such as hospitals, hotels and kitchens. At our previous company, a software development business, most of our clients asked us to build in-house tools like an "easy to use Salesforce" or a "lighter SAP" that would reflect their internal processes. They were tired of paying…

I may just be unfamiliar with the lingo, but I believe one of the items in the "For operations" drop-down list may contain a spelling error/typo. The list item currently reads "Heathtech", but the page it leads to reads "Healthtech".

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by akajla »

ignoramous wrote: post #27
kkajla wrote: post #10

We’re Aditya and Karan, the co-founders of Warrant ( https://warrant.dev/ ). We build APIs and infrastructure to help developers implement authorization and access control in their apps. Implementing flexible authorization that grows with your application is difficult. Many products only need authentication early on but eventually require authorization; however, adding complex authorization to a mature, high usage pr…

Congratulations on the launch, Aditya and Karan. Building SaaS from India (assuming that you eventually will) is always going to be advantageous [0] given the comparatively lower wages and access to a global client-base. Apart form that, in what ways does warrant differentiate itself from authzed.io, another YC-backed startup? I see that both these services are influenced by Zanzibar, but I am particularly curious if…

Thanks! Although I'm not sure I fully understand your first point. Are you asking if we specifically plan to build/hire in India in the future (we're based in the US) or are you saying that in general, building SaaS in India is advantageous?

And yes, devxp is one of our main focus areas. After dealing with authz at prev small and big companies, we're building the components/infra/plugins we believe will save app developers time across their stack. And in terms of Zanzibar, like others, we think it's a very flexible approach to modeling permissions and access control, so we're basing parts of our implementation on it.

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by akajla »

brap wrote: post #14
kkajla wrote: post #10

We’re Aditya and Karan, the co-founders of Warrant ( https://warrant.dev/ ). We build APIs and infrastructure to help developers implement authorization and access control in their apps. Implementing flexible authorization that grows with your application is difficult. Many products only need authentication early on but eventually require authorization; however, adding complex authorization to a mature, high usage pr…

This is neat, and I've given this idea some thought in the past. Glad to see it!

Thanks!

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by martinlykkesuhr »

telesilla wrote: post #78
martinlykkesuhr wrote: post #5

GamerPay ( https://gamerpay.gg/ ) is a scam-free marketplace for gaming skins and assets. 46% of gamers trading skins have been scammed more than once for either their money or their skins (survey of 5,000 gamers). 50% of gamers are under 18 and this their first online trading/cash experience. We solve this problem by integrating with Steam and making use of escrow, validating all trades. We are regulated by European…

I'd love to see this made available to the Spanish market next, will follow and see how you do.

You can actually use it in Spain, Portugal, Brazil and more. However you have to live with it being in English for now

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by brunobannach »

aviggiano wrote: post #42
brunobannach wrote: post #3

Hi HN, we are Bruno and Guilherme of Jestor ( https://jestor.com/ ). We make a no-code tool for COOs that need to scale complex offline operations such as hospitals, hotels and kitchens. At our previous company, a software development business, most of our clients asked us to build in-house tools like an "easy to use Salesforce" or a "lighter SAP" that would reflect their internal processes. They were tired of paying…

Awesome! Keep up the good work

Thanks!

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by brunobannach »

philippz wrote: post #18
brunobannach wrote: post #3

Hi HN, we are Bruno and Guilherme of Jestor ( https://jestor.com/ ). We make a no-code tool for COOs that need to scale complex offline operations such as hospitals, hotels and kitchens. At our previous company, a software development business, most of our clients asked us to build in-house tools like an "easy to use Salesforce" or a "lighter SAP" that would reflect their internal processes. They were tired of paying…

Jestor looks great! I hope you guys don't wait for ages until you put a heavy focus on product performance. Notion waited way too long with this and it was a great turn off to adopt the product. I've just tried out your project management template and it already feels slow. Please think early about query optimizations and caching on client & server-side. It a major competitor advantage from UX perspective.

Performance is extremely important. I say that because we use Jestor every day here, and if it's a bit slow we immediately try to understand why and how to make it faster. About templates, did you use it straight from the website or by installing into an account? I'm asking so I can check with the team and solve it asap!

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by brunobannach »

erickcoser wrote: post #52
brunobannach wrote: post #3

Hi HN, we are Bruno and Guilherme of Jestor ( https://jestor.com/ ). We make a no-code tool for COOs that need to scale complex offline operations such as hospitals, hotels and kitchens. At our previous company, a software development business, most of our clients asked us to build in-house tools like an "easy to use Salesforce" or a "lighter SAP" that would reflect their internal processes. They were tired of paying…

Where did the focus on the “complex offline operations” niche came from? Interested to understand the product-market fit iteration process. Also, congrats on the solid product. Keep up with the great work!

We struggled a lot to realize that complex offline operations are a much better fit for us. In the beginning we're trying to help "Any company with any problem", and we ended up building nothing for no one. That’s when we saw that our clients with really tough operational problems were extracting great value from all the features we offer. We saw this fit had two parts: the operations being complex and them being offline. The reason we focus on complex operations is because easy problems don't actually need a tool. For a small company without ops problems, spreadsheets or paper sheets will usually do the job. The offline part is because we built Jestor to run on any mobile device from day 1 (as any modern application should). And "real world problems' need to have the data on the field, not only on computers.

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by brunobannach »

jedberg wrote: post #58
brunobannach wrote: post #3

Hi HN, we are Bruno and Guilherme of Jestor ( https://jestor.com/ ). We make a no-code tool for COOs that need to scale complex offline operations such as hospitals, hotels and kitchens. At our previous company, a software development business, most of our clients asked us to build in-house tools like an "easy to use Salesforce" or a "lighter SAP" that would reflect their internal processes. They were tired of paying…

How do you differ from retool?

There are some core differences:

1. You can connect everything in Jestor. All your tools will be connected, instead of building lots of stand alone applications for each team/problem.

2. Jestor provides database functionalities, so you don’t need 3rd party services to store your data and link it to processes within the platform.

3. Our focus is no-code and non-technical teams, whereas Retool is closer to a low-code tool for engineers.

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