WhatA simplified, cost-transparent alternative to Cloudflare/AWS that bundles CDN, DNS, DDoS protection, and edge compute at a fraction of the price by stripping out enterprise bloat.
SignalCloudflare is cutting 20% of staff while posting $639M quarterly revenue, signaling that the full-stack infrastructure bundle has become bloated and margin-pressured — there's room for a leaner competitor focused purely on core infrastructure needs.
Why NowPost-ZIRP belt-tightening means every company is scrutinizing infrastructure costs, and a wave of talented distributed systems engineers just hit the market simultaneously.
MarketSMBs and startups spending $500-$50K/mo on cloud infrastructure; TAM ~$30B cloud infrastructure market; competes with Cloudflare, Fastly, and Vercel on the simpler end
MoatNetwork effects from edge PoP buildout and switching costs once DNS/CDN is configured
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