Congrats on the launch! Does it support ordinary db migrations with the normal Postgres interface?

expand.ai | Onsite in SF, CA | Full-time | expand.ai Want to turn the internet into a database? Let's go!

More about the founding engineer role: https://www.expand.ai/careers/founding-engineer

Why is this not on the front page anymore?

expand.ai (YC S24) | https://www.expand.ai | Backend, ML | Onsite in San Francisco

At expand.ai, we turn the internet into a database. We are doing bleeding edge web agent research.

We're hiring a founding engineer.

We care less about your particular background, be it AI, ML, backend, full-stack... What we care about is that you're passionate about programming. We are solving technically very hard problems. See more in the role description.

Given that I'm a solo founder, we can afford giving you a bit more equity than most startups ;)

More about the role: https://www.expand.ai/careers/founding-engineer

You can apply to tim@expand.ai

This is also how we started a while ago. I agree that it's too expensive, hence we're working on making this scalable and cheaper now! We'll soon launch, but here we go! https://expand.ai

I’m curious to know more about your product. Currently, I’m using visualping.io to keep an eye on the website of my local housing community. They share important updates there, and it’s really helpful for me to get an email every few months instead of having to check their site every day.

Amazing! When will we have this in the major databases?

Great to see e2e openness. One of the only true OSS models out there, vs most of the models releasing the binaries (weights). Surprised that they didn’t mention Mistral 7b in the comparisons.

Falcon also released open dataset.

This is one of the deepest deep tech startups I've seen in a long time. I had the pleasure to meet some of the folks at RustConf in Portland.

Readyset is basically reimplementing a full database, at the absolute bleeding edge of db research, enabling global partial replication of any kind of data.

A solution desperately needed, as databases grow.

You can think of it as an intelligent LRU cache in front of your database. An important step towards fast globally distributed applications.

I hope this project will get more publicity and adoption - it's very well deserved.

Minecraft addiction in real life

The children yearn for the mines.

I like the syntactic sugar of directly validating types through modules. However, configuration at some point always converges towards Turing completness. I’m biased but imo nothing beats TypeScript and schema validation tooling like Effect.Schema or Zod. Yes it’s more code to write but you’re not locked in and can adopt the system as needed.