Vân gives student developers, early-stage startups, and non-technical founders a complete cloud backend with database, auth, and storage, without touching AWS, DevOps, or server config.
import { van } from '@van/sdk';
// Auth in one call
const user = await van.auth.signIn({
email, password,
});
// Query your Postgres database
const posts = await van
.from('posts')
.select('title, author');
// Upload a file, get a URL back
const { url } = await van
.storage.upload(file);
The Problem
Building a product shouldn't require a cloud engineer.
Scroll across to see the wall every kind of builder hits.
For student developers
Setup eats your project time.
Setting up a backend takes longer than building the actual product. You spend the weekend fighting servers, auth flows, and database config instead of shipping the idea that's actually due.
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// What you wanted to build:
buildCoolProject() // ...still waiting on backend setup
For early startups
One wrong config, bill explodes.
AWS is powerful but overwhelming. One wrong config and the bill explodes. Early startups burn runway and engineering hours on infrastructure they shouldn't have to think about yet.
You have the idea. You shouldn't need to hire a backend team to test it. Vân gives you database, auth, and storage from one SDK so you can validate before you ever write a cheque.
context: vânLIVE: 0.8ms
// From idea to live backend:
van.configure({ project: 'my-startup' }) // done
What Vân gives you
Everything your app needs. Nothing you don't.
Database
SQL + NoSQL
Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, and NoSQL. Create tables, run queries, scale as you grow. No configuration.
Auth
JWT
Email, password, Email OTP, Email link, Google, and Apple logins. JWT-secured. Works in one SDK call.
Storage
S3-compatible
Upload files, images, documents. Get a URL back. That's it.
Email Service
Custom domain
Send transactional and marketing email from your own custom domain. Available from Starter.
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Redis
In-memory
Managed in-memory cache and queues for fast reads and background jobs. Available from Scale.
Realtime
WebSocket
Subscribe to live changes over WebSockets. Build chat, presence, and live dashboards instantly.
Functions
Serverless
Deploy backend logic without managing a server. Write, deploy, and run functions directly inside your Vân project from the SDK.
API Keys
Per-project control
Create, manage, and revoke API keys per environment. Track usage, set permissions, and control access from your dashboard. Available from Starter.
Reliability
A 99% uptime guarantee, backed by data.
Every project runs on replicated infrastructure with automatic failover. Each dot is one hour of uptime, lighting up across the timeline as you scroll, hour after hour.
99%
Uptime guarantee
<0.8ms
Median query latency
3x
Replicated by default
HealthyMinor latencyDegradedOutage
vân · fleet healthoperational
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
24:0018:0012:006:000:00
168 hours of uptime99% healthy
How it works
From idea to live backend in three steps.
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01
Create a project
Sign up, name your project, done.
02
Connect your app
Install the Vân SDK. One line of config.
03
Start building
Query your database, authenticate users, store files. All from your frontend.
Early Access
Be among the first builders on Vân.
We're in early access. No fabricated reviews — just a small group of builders helping shape the product. Join them.