Renting rooms means a WhatsApp group, a spreadsheet, and the calculator app open at once. Someone always forgets who paid rent and who still owes for the gas bill. Plinthos puts it in one place: rent tracked monthly (tenants mark paid with a receipt photo, you confirm), bills split equally, by days or by square meters, deposits handled at check-out, plus chat and deadline reminders. Tenants join free with one link. Built for rooms with multiple tenants, not whole-flat leases.
The funds will boost open-source / Postgres tools, grow the platform, and liquidity for the employees.
Two months ago, @Supabase announced 8,000,000 developers building with the platform. [1] They're now nearly 10 million, with databases launches growing by 600% over the past year.
A lot of large companies (not just tech giants) are laying off employees at scale because AI can already do parts of their work faster, in higher volume, and at a comparable level of quality, sometimes even better.
At the same time, companies are starting to openly admit something important: AI is expensive.