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Three Dropbox infrastructure veterans tried to spare developers from databases, queues and cache invalidation. Then coding agents arrived - and made Convex's opinionated backend look less like a shortcut than a new division of labor.
Sortly
Sortly is a cloud-based, visual inventory and asset-tracking platform that lets businesses photograph, QR-code, and organize their stuff into searchable folders on any device. Built for the non-warehouse crowd - construction crews, medical offices, electricians, interior designers, schools, and retailers - it swaps clipboards and spreadsheets for a mobile app with barcode scanning, custom fields, low-stock alerts, and offline access. Founded in 2012 by Dhanush Balachandran and bootstrapped to profitability, Sortly now tracks millions of items for well over 15,000 paying businesses.