s2.dev: Streams as a cloud storage primitive
The serverless API for unlimited, durable, real-time streams
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YC · launched Nov 8, 2025 · 63 upvotes (top 36%) · 1 view
Niche: event streaming platforms · 38 launches, 2 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Data infrastructure
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Developer Tools
- Open Source
- API
- Infrastructure
- Databases
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Could you build this?
No S2 is low-level distributed infrastructure providing a high-throughput, low-latency, durable append-only log primitive backed directly by object storage. Building this requires deep systems programming, consensus algorithms, replication, and distributed storage systems engineering.
What it would actually take: Requires systems engineering in Rust, C++, or Go with deep understanding of distributed consensus, page cache management, and storage tiering. The core challenge is achieving <40ms durable writes directly to/above object storage with strict linearizability, sequence offsets, and elastic multi-tenancy. Vibe coding cannot construct robust, high-performance distributed storage engines that survive network partitions and node crashes.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2890 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #997 of 2889 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 10 days after the earliest competitor.
- Tonbo · hn · 2025-12-17 · 56 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- TidesDB · hn · 2025-11-09 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- armada · github · 2026-10-07 · 56 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Knitting · hn · 2026-10-13 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- OxiSH, a modern, memory-safe SSH server · hn · 2026-08-13 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Turbo · hn · 2026-07-08 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- rustberg · github · 2026-09-14 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- unstream-proxy · github · 2026-10-05 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.61
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