Launching BranchDB ⚡ — a blazingly fast in-memory key-value database.
No wrappers. No shortcuts. Just pure C++ power.
TTL, WAL, LRU, Log Compaction, Persistence, Data Isolation, SDK - all packed in.
3/3
> final founder round 🥀
started with past experience & past startup business model.
switched to DSA (was not expecting in culture fit round)
some projects
LRU cache implementation
finally result = 🥀
Repo: https://t.co/nEup48qcYk
almost made it into fintech YC startup :(
> It was SDE intern role 6m + PPO
> saw a tweet
> mailed them
> got take-home
> building it was fun (n8n, aws) ✅ learning was good
> recorded the demo video with good visuals - laptop was troubling me to just record demo - but did it
1/3 🧵
2/3
> round 1 (went smooth) ✅
it was based on assessment related Qs,
data flows, n8n logics & some basic backend concepts
> round 2 - technical round (went smooth) ✅
API design, SQL, assessment Qs, past experiences, CS funda