TechCrunch · Jul 2021
TechCrunch reported SST’s $1M seed round led by a group including Greylock Partners, SV Angel, and Y Combinator.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
SST is an open-source developer platform for building full-stack applications on custom infrastructure. Its core workflow centers on a single `sst.config.ts` file, local live development, and an optional SaaS Console for deploys, logs, monitoring, and preview environments. The company publicly traces its roots to 2017 and later rebranded to SST in 2021; its public leadership is centered on founders Jay V and Frank Wang.
Primary product
SST open-source framework for full-stack app infrastructure; optional SST Console SaaS
Founded
2017
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Open-source developer tools / application development framework
Business model
open-source software
SaaS (SST Console)
enterprise support
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$1.1M
Latest round
Seed · Jul 2021
Latest amount
$1M
People & investors
Work & culture
Developer-first, open-source, and community-driven. SST emphasizes fast feedback loops, batteries-included defaults, progressive disclosure, strong docs/tutorials, and support via GitHub and Discord.
Compensation
No public salary bands or compensation-package details surfaced in the reviewed sources.
Product & market
Pricing
Open-source framework is free to use; the optional SST Console is a SaaS product with a free tier up to 350 active resources and usage-based pricing beyond that.
Differentiators
- —Single-config app definition in `sst.config.ts`
- —Live local development and fast feedback loops
- —Resource linking without hardcoding runtime wiring
- —Works across 150+ providers and not just AWS
- —Optional Console for logs, monitoring, and autodeploy
- —Runs on user-owned infrastructure
- —Open-source core with optional hosted SaaS
- —No Pulumi account required
Technology
TypeScript
Node.js
AWS
Cloudflare
Pulumi
Terraform
Next.js
Remix
Astro
Solid
S3
Lambda
Postgres
GitHub
AWS CodeBuild
Customers
Henry Schein One
Leadent Digital
Buildforce
Doorvest
Competitors
AWS CDK
Pulumi
Terraform
Serverless Framework
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$2.1M ARR to $3.1M annual revenue (public estimates)
Latest news
SST Blog
SST v3.14 introduced native Windows support in beta, extending SST’s development workflow to Windows users with some UI limitations in `sst dev`.
SST Blog
SST changed Console pricing to an active-resource model effective Feb. 1, with a free tier up to 350 active resources and per-resource pricing above that threshold.
SST Blog
SST v3 (Ion) replaced the CDK/CloudFormation-based engine with a Pulumi/Terraform-based deployment model, added broader provider support, and expanded Console/autodeploy integration.
SST Blog
SST launched a Job construct for asynchronous work such as video processing, ETL, and ML jobs, with up to 8-hour duration.
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