ParadeDB vs Hoppscotch
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SF YC S23 transactional Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres with 400K+ deployments in 12 months; $14M total ($12M Craft Series A 2025) serving Alibaba Cloud/Bilt/Modern Treasury competing with Elastic for Postgres-native search.
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ParadeDB is a San Francisco-based database company — backed by Y Combinator (S23) with $14 million in total funding including a $12 million Series A in 2025 led by Craft Ventures with Y Combinator — providing developers and data engineering teams with a transactional Elasticsearch alternative built as a Postgres extension, enabling full-text search, vector search, and analytics directly within existing PostgreSQL databases without managing a separate Elasticsearch cluster. Launched in December 2023, ParadeDB has achieved 400,000+ deployments in 12 months and serves customers including Alibaba Cloud, Bilt Rewards, and Modern Treasury — making high-performance search and analytics available within ACID-compliant Postgres transactions that Elasticsearch cannot support.
Open-source browser-based API testing platform with 500K+ developers; $3M seed from OSS Capital competing with Postman as a lightweight, self-hostable alternative for REST and GraphQL testing.
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Hoppscotch is an open-source API development and testing platform — providing a web-based, lightweight alternative to Postman and Insomnia for building, testing, and documenting REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, and gRPC APIs. Founded in 2019 by Liyas Thomas and Andrew Bastin in Kochi, India, Hoppscotch has grown to 500,000+ developers globally using the platform, raised $3 million in seed funding led by OSS Capital with participation from Automattic (WordPress.com parent), and offers a free open-source version alongside Hoppscotch Pro cloud with team collaboration and private workspaces.
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