Convex

Convex is essentially the backend we all wish we had built ourselves. It handles the heavy lifting of keeping your database and UI in sync without forcing you to become a WebSocket expert or manage complex state machines. For anyone building LLM-driven apps, it is a massive shortcut: it manages the orchestration of streams and triggers so you can focus on the prompts and the logic, not the plumbing.

It is the right move for indie hackers and small teams who need to ship yesterday and do not want to babysit servers. The trade-off is the classic one: you are trading total infrastructure control for incredible speed. It is a proprietary platform, so if your project demands self-hosting or if you have a panic attack thinking about vendor lock-in, Convex might feel a bit like a golden cage.