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Mint founder Alex on pivoting from crypto to AI world models, why the team switched to Convex mid-pivot, and how launching fast beat chasing a perfect product.

A dispatch from Y Combinator's Browser Use Web Agents Hackathon, where teams building AI agents for moving, housing search, and meeting prep all converged on the same backend decision.

This video explores how a Y Combinator-backed startup transitioned from a TreeHacks hackathon project to a production-scale real-time application using Convex. The discussion covers the architectural decisions behind choosing a managed backend, highlighting the immediate benefits of built-in WebSockets for UI reactivity and rapid iteration. It also delves into the early technical hurdles of crossing the Node and V8 chasm when handling specialized workloads.

A Convex infrastructure engineer walks through the full push pipeline, from type-checking in V8 to atomic schema cutover, and traces a request through FunRun, the committer, and optimistic concurrency control.

A step-by-step walkthrough of installing Convex's Stripe component: environment variables, webhook registration, checkout actions, and gating a page behind an active subscription.

Check out the behind-the-scenes engineering efforts that went behind Axiom's integration into Convex.

There’s a new fastest way to start building a new app on Convex. Use our new magical command, npm create convex, to spin up a new Convex app from a preexisting template.