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[nicholas @nixholas]

The @solanafm story. Student or not, you're always a builder. We need to share this with everyone, everyone needs to know that building starts YOUNG! Don't give a damn about the adults thinking you're kids, keep trying.

In April 2021, we (@bingerbonker, Srikar, @LinRuwan, and @0xFA2) crashed a classroom at our university, and decided to go all in on the Solana Season Hackathon. The dumb idea to go all in on a data problem came from me; could've gone DeFi but I just had that "worry" of dealing with people's money...

Back then, we were all freshmen (@bingerbonker was a sophomore), and only Bing and I had prior experience in engineering. It just made so much sense to focus on data, else it'll be hard to pick things up along the way without a thermonuclear disaster.

30th April 2021, we crafted a simple database to stash the entire chain state (Photo). We nuked MySQL, PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL with sharding, @TimescaleDB, @TimescaleDB with pgbouncer, and eventually landed on BigQuery.

It was amazing to see how we experimented indexing strats so quickly. We went from @dotnet to @rustlang in 3 days. Amazing coordination with everyone; we later split up in pairs to focus on Backend and Frontend for the hackathon submission.

Surprisingly, we won an award!! Thank you @ournetwork__

https://t.co/z8L6Bhj3Zv