Hi everyone. I've just launched a landing page for my API remr.io. It's a key-value storage API. By that I mean it's like Redis or Memcached but persistent storage.
Rather than build the whole stack, I'd like to validate my idea first. I'm solving a real problem I recently had - I needed to store a simple string so I can share it between different tasks in an autoscaling microservice. I had to spin up a whole Redis server to do so - with AWS managed Redis and the smallest size possible, that cost $10 per month.
This price isn't an issue for my day job, but for the small developer, it's a pain. For one, you have to know how to do that, then you have to monitor it, keep paying the bill, ensure it's online and stable, etc.
My aim here is to build a super-fast storage API for small developers. If you want to store one or two things that's great, and you shouldn't have to pay a fortune to do so every month.
Equally, the API can handle much larger data, but it's really geared towards smaller users - people collecting data with Raspberry Pis, other small web apps etc.