Overview

How big is the market

The global developer tools market, which includes software development tools and DevOps solutions, is estimated to have a market value of approximately $6.31 billion in 2024. It is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.1%, reaching around $8.6 billion by 2033

This is assuming that the current players only remain in the market. Although AWS makes a revenue of about $80 billion/ year, the dev tools revenue number is so low because there is a huge scope for market disruption. Tools like Appsmith and Supabase have only launched about 3 years ago. The developer tools movement has only taken a huge momentum in the last 4-5 years. So there is a huge untapped market that is waiting to be disrupted.

Why now?

Docker was invented in 2013 and it became popular in 2015-2016. I still remember writing my code on bare metal AWS before that. Docker led to the concept of container orchestration and os agnostic code deployments. This led to the rise of serverless architecture, microservices and on-premise deployments. Therefore many companies are following the serverless architecture, instead of the monolithic architecture. Therefore this is the right time to jump into the market and capture it.

Now developers no longer have to take the pain of managing Databases or code deployments themselves. We can do it for them while they focus on building features for their web application. We will manage the infrastructure monitoring and scaling.

Synopsis

Rocketgraph lets developers build web applications in minutes, not weeks. We do this by providing:

• Auth: Auth with email, social, magic link and OTP. We also do the session handling using cookies on the front end
• Database: You can spin up a database that is configured with logging and production-grade hosted on AWS with just a single click.
• Cloud Functions: To deploy your own backend code. Just drag and drop your code to create SSL endpoints(https enabled) automatically. No need to spin up a AWS server, configure security, deploy os, run your code and get a certificate to create a backend endpoint. Do all this with a single click
• Database monitoring: Monitor your database at a sub second latency without any configuration. We automatically configure cloudwatch for you so your logs are tailed, stored and optimised for querying. Easily query from a list of most used commands dropdown or write your own query using cloudwatch query syntax. Filter by type, timeframe and keywords.
• Vector DB and AI Chatbots: Our PostgresDB automatically comes with pgVector support which lets you encode high dimensional data inside your PostgresRow. These are vector embeddings that let you query your DB using NLP. We go one step further by combining the best results and formulating a human readable answer to a given query string. With this you get ready-made AI chatbots that you can directly embed into your website.

Essentially Rocketgraph has 2 plans - teams(for solo developers and small teams) and enterprise. So it can be used on cloud or it can be deployed on premise.

Reception

Devs

Went Viral on several platforms like dev, Reddit, HN and PH. Had over 100 users use my product for more than 1hr.