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Re:Launch HN: Fortress (YC S24) – Database platform for mult... by brap on Monday September 02, 2024 @01:47PM (#41427390)
This seems interesting, but I can’t quite figure out what your target audience is. Can you give an example of a theoretical customer and how they would use your product?
Re:Launch HN: Fortress (YC S24) – Database platform for mult... by dchu17 on Monday September 02, 2024 @01:51PM (#41427417)
This is a great question :)

We initially targeted startups at the moment that they are moving from a 3rd party DBaaS to databases on their own cloud. However, we just realized this was super tough to time. We experimented a bit with enterprise actually too but many of them already have huge systems in place.

We are shifting our focus to SaaS developers. We know that often, thinking about data isolation is a factor on SaaS developers' minds. We want to build a platform where they can have an incredibly simple DX while also trusting that their customer data will be isolated.

Re:Launch HN: Fortress (YC S24) – Database platform for mult... by pfix on Monday September 02, 2024 @01:54PM (#41427439)
I feel targeted. Internal platform team. How to solve db instance sizing vs utilization.
Re:Launch HN: Fortress (YC S24) – Database platform for mult... by willothy on Monday September 02, 2024 @01:59PM (#41427484)
Hey Will here, another Fortress cofounder.

We're still thinking about this a lot. We're using AWS Aurora currently which auto-scales compute and storage, and are looking into other options such as distributed databases (Cockroach, etc.) and Kubernetes operators.