$1M Later and Conduit is STILL Rocking Convex

Conduit founder Punn Kam describes adopting Convex at the 2023 TreeHacks hackathon, where its real-time updates and integrated developer experience enabled his team to quickly build a lease-payment management tool that won a fintech prize. After using Convex for subsequent projects, Conduit evaluated other backend options but retained it for its chat-heavy application because reactive data synchronization, rapid deployment, and support from the Convex team suited its needs. The discussion notes that early adoption involved undocumented edge cases, particularly around crypto-related workloads, but close collaboration with Convex engineers helped establish practices and product features. Conduit reports that Convex’s constraints around pagination, bounded queries, and localized failures initially required adjustment but encouraged more efficient backend patterns, which later helped onboarding and produced more consistent AI-generated code. The interview also presents Y Combinator as valuable to first-time founders for its community and operational guidance, while Conduit applies a similar philosophy of opinionated constraints to its own platform for conversational workflows.

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