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Sanity schedules functions, Clerk opens application logs, and Mux takes protected video offline
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Launch of the Week
Sanity, a headless CMS, introduced Scheduled Functions for recurring work such as digests, cache expiration and content synchronization, using organization-scoped blueprint stacks. Moving timer-based jobs beside content could reduce integration work for teams comparing it with Contentful, although existing project-scoped stacks need promotion before deployment.
Company Launch
Chert, an iMessage customer-messaging startup, introduced its API on May 7 for sending, receiving, and automating conversations, with calendar and CRM integrations. It gives teams comparing business-messaging services such as Sendblue and Twilio another way to connect customer-facing applications to the messaging channels their users already use.
Enterprise Watch
Clerk, an authentication and user management platform, launched Application Logs for authentication, organization and billing events, with filters for actors, resources and trace IDs. Centralized troubleshooting could help support teams resolve customer problems against alternatives such as WorkOS, but log retention depends on the plan.
Funding and Acquisitions
SuprSend, a notification API, was named among five startups receiving investment through Chiratae Ventures’ Sonic DeepTech program, which committed up to $10 million across the cohort without disclosing SuprSend’s allocation. The backing could support its expansion against Knock and Novu, while the cohort total should not be treated as SuprSend’s own funding round.
GTM Trends
Convex, a backend-as-a-service platform, announced Abstract, a September 2 conference in San Francisco about principled design, with no paid sponsorships. Building a community around how products are designed could give Convex a distinct acquisition channel alongside developer platforms such as Supabase, rather than relying entirely on feature comparisons.
More Devtool News
- ✨ Mux, a video API platform, added protected offline downloads to Mux Player Swift in version 1.6.0. Apps can download and play FairPlay-protected assets without connectivity, although developers still need to implement offline access management; compare Bitmovin.
- ✨ Sanity, a headless CMS, added folders and shortcuts to Media Library, allowing one asset to appear in several locations without duplication. Real-time folder updates could simplify shared asset organization, although the underlying programmatic hierarchy primitive is beta; Contentful offers an alternative content platform.
- ✨ Liveblocks, a provider of real-time collaboration APIs, made selective undo-history exclusion stable. Applications can keep background mutations out of users' undo stacks, but developers must choose which changes should remain reversible; compare a team-operated Yjs stack.