Porter

Carry is an all-in-one platform for tax-advantaged accounts, investments, and strategy for business owners and high-earning professionals. Carry uses Porter to manage their AWS infra so they don't have to hire a full-time DevOps engineer. “AWS is like the IKEA of Software: it’s relatively cheap, but assembly is required. That assembly work comes in the form of DevOps engineering; Porter eliminates the need for an in-house DevOps engineer at a startup.” – Alejandro Roman, Co-Founder of Carry Read the full case study here: https://lnkd.in/e83Ukv3r

Silogy (YC W24) is an AI-powered platform for chip developers to simulate and debug their designs. Co-founder and CTO Paul Kim uses Porter to manage their DevOps so they can focus on accelerating the semiconductor development lifecycle. Looking to deploy your apps on performant infra without any DevOps overhead? Redeem the Porter startup deal here: https://lnkd.in/eJahycr5

Zaymo (YC W24) allows e-commerce brands to create emails that are as interactive as websites. Co-Founder Daniel J. migrated from a serverless platform to long-running servers on Porter and AWS to avoid cold starts. Looking to avoid the problems associated with serverless? Redeem the Porter startup deal here: https://lnkd.in/eJahycr5

Tower (YC W24) is an AI copilot for legal counsels, allowing them to intake, triage, and respond to incoming requests automatically. Co-founder Adam Dorfman uses Porter to manage their AWS infra so they can focus on shipping features that save in-house legal teams' time. Looking to deploy your apps on performant infra without any DevOps overhead? Redeem the Porter startup deal here: https://lnkd.in/dkVafwqv

Flipturn provides fleets with an EV charging management platform, optimizing charger operations and minimizing costs. Co-founder & CTO Sashko Stubailo and the Flipturn team migrated from a traditional PaaS to Porter on AWS for greater reliability, granular logs and metrics, and SOC 2-compliant infrastructure configuration out-of-the-box. Hosting on a PaaS and looking for more performant and compliant infra? Redeem the Porter startup deal here: https://lnkd.in/dkVafwqv

Getaround (NYSE: GETR) is a ride-sharing startup that serves production traffic from eight countries, averaging 6.6 million requests per day. Using Porter, Getaround’s SRE team of ~3 people doesn’t have to worry about Day 2 operations and can focus on the most impactful infrastructure work. “If you want to do Kubernetes on your own, you need a large team of dedicated engineers working on it, constantly monitoring and maintaining your cluster. Porter handles our Kubernetes operations so we can focus on more important parts of the infrastructure” – Laurent Humez, SRE at Getaround Read the full case study here: https://lnkd.in/dwwYc_uz Need to deploy your workloads on battle-tested, enterprise-grade infrastructure? Apply for the Porter startup deal here: https://lnkd.in/dkVafwqv

CreatorML (YC W23) helps the world's biggest YouTubers predict which topics, titles, and thumbnails will maximize views and ROI using machine learning. Founder Charles Weill migrated from ECS Fargate to Porter on AWS to streamline their infrastructure, resulting in a total cost that's not any more expensive than what they used to pay on Fargate. Hosting on Fargate and looking for more performant infra? Redeem the Porter startup deal here: https://lnkd.in/eJahycr5

You focusing on your moat might be what prevents you from selling. For example I end up giving my money to Porter BECAUSE they don't lock me into their ecosystem. Because they didn't focus on their moat, I am buying from them. Porter is a platform as a service like Heroku, but the big difference is I own my infra, they're just helping me manage it. I call that a transparent wrapper. An example of wrapper nontransparent would be Vercel. It's a wrapper on AWS, but you can't see your AWS instance. Why does all this matter? I believe when you start a company it's very useful to rely on other pieces in an ecosystem. For example Bluewind will rely on Appsmith to allow people to contribute to a no-code app, n8n for the no-code backend, Smartlead for the email automation. By doing so, we remove the barriers for people to use our product because we work with industry leaders. The downside is we're not building a moat. But honestly, fuck the moat. Customers don't care about your moat. Only investors do. Before optimizing for enterprise value, optimize for customer value. PS: We have a new company coming in the bluewind stack. We thought a lot about it, this was a big decision. This is HubSpot. It's a key player in the GTM space. Bluewind not having a CRM to push the leads to is a problem. By having Hubspot we can finally close the loop and provide a great experience, all be it opinionated. They have a very generous startup plan that allows companies to not pay too much until they make the big bucks. This means Bluewind will be a transparent wrapper of Smartlead for prospection and Hubspot for nurturing. PS2: nothing prevents you from building your own things and creating your moat once you're established. For example Porter just released Porter Cloud 😉

Being in the US, especially in NYC, is a fantastic opportunity to connect with investors, users, or potential customers. Often overlooked, it's also a prime time to connect with providers. Last week, I had the pleasure of meeting Justin Rhee from Porter. This service is pivotal to our operations, allowing us to deploy Lago's applications into our cloud account effortlessly. With Porter, Maneki-Lago (and Jérémy Denquin 😅) looks strong and happy because she operates like a full devops team. If you're considering a platform as a service, Porter is by far the best we've used. If you want to connect, I am in NYC for the next few weeks!