Founders Program
July 2026100 seats at the table.
Not a free trial. Not a discount. A founding seat.
We are offering 100 unlimited Minimal licenses — no charge for 12 months — to the teams who are building at the edge of what databases and AI can do together. The teams who will find the edges, stress the runtime, and tell us what production actually looks like. In return, we give them everything we have built. This is not charity. It is how standards get set.
First cohort — July 2026
20
seats of 20 remaining
Updated as applications are accepted
Next cohort — coming soon
What You Get
Everything. Unlimited. For 12 months.
Auto API
Every table. Every endpoint. Unlimited schemas, unlimited calls.
Custom API
SQL, Starlark, Expr — inline logic, no deployment, no limits.
Insights
Ask in English. Live dashboards from production data. No cap.
Forge
Customer self-serve apps. Governed. Unlimited workspaces.
19+ databases
Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, ClickHouse and every database that speaks their protocol — connect as many as you need.
Direct access
A private channel to the Minimal founding team. Not a support ticket. Us.
12 months from acceptance. No credit card. No auto-renewal.
What We Ask
Three things. All of them worth your time.
01
An active project
You are building something real — in production or moving toward it — on a database Minimal supports. It does not have to be big. It has to be real.
02
30 minutes a month
A direct call with the founding team. Not a survey. Not a feedback form. A conversation about what worked, what did not, and what you needed that was not there. This is the most valuable thing you can give us.
03
One case study at month three
Written or recorded — your choice. What you were doing before. What changed. What it cost you in time, engineering, and headcount. A paragraph is enough. We will never publish without your approval.
This is not the cost of admission. This is the value of being first. The teams in this program shape what Minimal becomes.
Who This Is For
First cohort — applying now
20 seats. These verticals.
Ecommerce
Product catalogues, order management, customer data, inventory APIs. If your team is writing and maintaining the layer between your database and your application — this is the quarter Minimal eliminates.
Mobile applications
Mobile backends that need fast, governed REST endpoints without the overhead of a full backend team. Schema changes should not require a deployment. With Minimal, they do not.
CRM
Customer data is relational, always changing, and always needing a slightly different view per team or per customer. Minimal serves all of it from the schema — without a route written per use case.
Analytics — running ClickHouse
ClickHouse is the fastest OLAP database on the planet. Minimal is the only governed REST API layer built for it. If your analytics stack runs on ClickHouse and your team is still writing the access layer — this seat is for you.
Next cohort — coming soon
The next cohort will open to additional verticals. Register your interest and we will notify you when applications open.
Register interest →Apply
Two sentences. That is enough.
Tell us what you are building, which vertical you are in, and which database you are running. We read every application ourselves. We respond within 48 hours.
Apply → hello@littlebit.inSubject: Founders Program — Cohort 1
— What you are building
— Which vertical — ecommerce, mobile, CRM, or analytics
— Which database you are running
— Anything else you want us to know — optional
No pitch deck. No NDA. No form. Just an email.
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