When Matija Šošić began working in net improvement, he was stunned by how laborious it was to construct a full-stack production-ready net utility.
One of many greatest hurdles Šošić confronted was navigating the fragmented dev tooling panorama. Coding an online utility required using totally different instruments for growing the front-end versus the back-end, and so forth.
“The entire ecosystem could be very modular and granulated,” Šošić advised TechCrunch. “There’s lots of these separate sub-systems, which you need to work out find out how to paste collectively, after which additionally be certain they’re each, you understand, scalable and safe with the whole lot you arrange.”
In 2020, Šošić determined to pair up together with his twin brother, Martin Šošić — who’d confronted comparable points in his personal developer profession — to launch Wasp, a platform meant to attach these fragmented instruments, in 2021.
Wasp is a full-stack net app dev instrument that acts because the glue between the totally different platforms builders are already utilizing, together with React, Node.js, and Prisma, amongst others. Wasp helps compile the code from these totally different platforms collectively into one net utility.
Wasp additionally spots and flags the gaps which are frequent when a developer mashes collectively totally different coding sources. Wasp will let a developer know if they’re lacking an API key, for instance, or recommend potential code adjustments to forestall future points.
That final piece is especially necessary in at present’s market as quite a few new AI coding instruments, like Windsurf (previously Codeium) and Cursor, have made coding accessible to nontechnical of us. Whereas that’s largely a very good factor, Šošić stated, “vibe coding doesn’t work for enterprise,” and Wasp may help budding builders construct safer, full-stack net purposes.
Wasp’s platform is open supply and might deploy to a public cloud or an enterprise server.
Šošić stated that the founding staff determined to construct Wasp as a layer on high of present instruments versus a very new, out-of-the-box answer to get rid of builders having to study a brand new programming language or course of to make use of Wasp.
Wasp went by Y Combinator’s winter 2021 cohort and launched its product into beta in 2023. Since then, the corporate has racked up 26,000 GitHub stars, and it now works with quite a few startups and Fortune 500 prospects.
The corporate raised a previously-unannounced $3.7 million spherical led by HV Capital with participation from Fifth Quarter Ventures, Massive Bets, and Metis Ventures, amongst different VCs, in late 2024. The spherical additionally included Ant Wilson, a co-founder and CTO of Supabase, and Søren Bramer Schmidt, the CEO of Prisma.
Wasp final raised funding in 2021 — a $1.5 million seed spherical. To this point, the corporate has raised a complete of $5.2 million.
“This offers us a really strong quantity of, mainly, freedom to work with,” Šošić stated. “We’re very excited to execute on the subsequent stage of the product, deliver it to [version] 1.0, and additional solidify the entire positioning within the AI spectrum.”
Šošić stated the corporate is now targeted on bringing the product to model 1.0, which is able to embrace options like help for various languages and server-side rendering.
“For us, you understand, it’s nonetheless specializing in the core product itself, which is the open supply Wasp as properly framework,” Šošić stated. “With all of the suggestions that we’ve got gotten from the final 4 years of constructing, I feel now it’s develop into clear to us what we’ve got to construct and what we’ve got to help to achieve [version] 1.0.”