Timescaler here. Linking a few posts below [0][1] that answer the majority of your very good questions. The posts detail why and how TimescaleDB started and why the founders chose to build a time-series database on PostgreSQL.
[0]: https://www.timescale.com/blog/when-boring-is-awesome-buildi... [1]: https://www.timescale.com/blog/40-million-to-help-developers...
Re:Timescale raises $110M Series C
by 999900000999 on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @05:17PM
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Thank you !
I plan on reading this all in full.
Edit : Very impressive way to pivot , best of luck !
Thank you :-)
There's a lot of lessons I've learned along the way
These are probably two of the top ones:
1. Solve a big problem that people have (even better if you personally have it)
2. Who you work with matters more than what you work on :-)
Re:Timescale raises $110M Series C
by 999900000999 on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @07:50PM
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So the big question I have is how do I get started ?
Looks like you had a small company, that was able to pivot and expand.
I'm planning on spending at least 3 months diving into my side projects, and then I'll try YC again.
Do I then just cold email various YC like funds until I fetch some interest, or should I focus on building my project.
I've dealt with databases for a very long time, But I frankly find SQL extremely hard and I could never imagine forking postgres to improve it.
Is this your first company, did you personally write much of the early code, or did you hire a team to do so.
As a side note, I'm seeing an insane amount of movement when it comes to business to business VC funding.
What about an entertainment product ?
Hypothetically, if you were given a year off to come up with a new product, do you think it would be possible?
I would absolutely love to read a blog post where you discuss the challenges you've faced getting here.