S10 Bonus: Nikita Shamgunov, Neon

150.532 - 174.425 Nikita Shamgunov

The original idea was to build an open source alternative to AWS Aurora. The key idea of Aurora, which we took to the next level, was separation of storage and compute. In a year, we were ready and we started to onboard some internal users. As we started to work on the launch, it leaked, right? Because we didn't hide the website behind a password. So suddenly posted in Hacker News.