When your B2B startup has no people, money or resources think out of the box to build your product

This article is written by our sponsor nautilus2k.com which is a new startup trying to help other startups building data-driven apps on the Microsoft .NET Core/ Azure tech stack.

This is related to the previous article:

How this startup helps you build a scalable app with a minuscule team, on a shoestring budget

The story of Arc begins when I left the very successful company I had been working for 6 years. It was time to move on, and I wanted to build a product to help other startups build what I had been building all through my career.

Everybody builds data-driven apps

Once B2B startups get Seed/ Series A funding, they are faced with the prospect of building customer facing applications from scratch. The app may not be directly related to the product they are building.

It is a no brainer than if your customer is another business, inevitably, they need to be able to login somewhere to manage your offering.

This is a mundane, but difficult undertaking because this would be an application which would be talking to a database. Customer data is important data, so it makes sense to use a relational database like SQL Server. And relational databases mean DBAs, no matter how you cut it.

These things are notoriously difficult & expensive to scale without a full time DBA which most startups don’t have in their team, especially if their main product is something like Robotics. If your customers are large companies, they would expect an excellent experience from your application — so, you need to build it well to be successful.

After 20 years in the Industry, I had been used to working with a team of engineers which always included a DBA. I was used to the process of getting the query from the DBA which was where the requirements went to at the beginning. It was only in one company, which had a particularly…