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Lunatic

Operating System for server-side apps

Y CombinatorWinter 2021InactiveB2BEngineering, Product and DesignDeveloper ToolsSaaSOpen Source

What they do

Problem

Building low-latency, robust, distributed server-side networking applications is complex and hard to do safely across different programming languages and ecosystems.

Solution

Lunatic provides a WebAssembly-based runtime/operating system for server-side apps that enables low-latency, fault-tolerant, distributed networking services using ideas from Go and Erlang.

Who it's for

Developers and engineering teams building server-side networking applications such as web apps, game servers, and real-time voice/video services.

Founders

Bernard Kolobara
Founder

Bernard is the co-founder and CEO of Lunatic. Prior to Lunatic, Bernard worked at CERN where he developed monitoring tools for a cluster of 1,000+ servers. He also manages 2 online communities around an open source distributed ledger technology with more than 8,000 registered users.

Hrvoje Bandov
Founder

Hrvoje previously co-founded an innovative insurance-tech company Amodo where he served as a system architect. For the last few years, he has been working as a contractor on various back-end projects including a platform for running real-time web-based multiplayer games.

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