news.ycombinator.com• Sep 2, 2024• 1 min read
Launch HN: Fortress (YC S24) – Database platform for multi-tenant SaaSHi HN! We're Will, John, and David from Fortress (https://fortress.build). We're building a Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) backend as a service for multi-tenant SaaS apps, simplifying tenant data isolation across both shared and dedicated database instances.There’s a demo here: https://www.loom.com/share/761cac3090ba4db8b2ce9d713873333a?..., as well as a walkthrough of our Python SDK: https://www.loom.com/share/c4b3f95235e24d99a7ea571c4564602bYC initially funded us for AI web-scraping, but early in the batch we realized we wanted to pivot to something in data privacy - in some ways the opposite of web-scraping…From talking with SaaS developers, we learned tenant isolation (making sure one customer’s data is not shown to another) is often considered in development but rarely a core competency. Many developers struggled setting up Row-Level-Security (RLS) correctly on Postgres, some are enforcing application level access controls with none at the database-level at all, and many didn’t know