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Test data that looks real

Next.js + PostgresDifficulty 3/5Suggested $25/moTeams needing safe dev data
78
UIQ score
GO

Problem

Developers need realistic data to build against. The options are a production dump, which is a breach waiting to happen and increasingly illegal, or generated nonsense that hides every bug caused by real-world shapes. So most teams quietly use the dump.

Why now

Data protection enforcement got sharper and agents now read development databases as a matter of course, which means a production dump on a laptop is now also a prompt away from a model's context.

Solution

It reads your schema and your data's statistical shape, then generates a dataset that behaves like production, the same distributions, the same edge cases, the same awkward nulls, containing no real person. Referential integrity holds, so it actually boots.

Who it is for

A team with real customer data who need to develop against something like it. The choice today is a production dump, which is a breach waiting for a date, or generated nonsense that hides every bug caused by real-world shapes. Most teams quietly use the dump, and agents now read development databases too, so it is a prompt away from a model.

How it makes money

Monthly per project, priced against the production dump on a developer laptop, which is the actual alternative rather than a competing product. That framing changes the conversation from cost to exposure, and the exposure grew when agents started reading local databases as a matter of course. Per-project pricing tracks the number of places real data would otherwise be copied to.

Main risk

Generating data that preserves the useful shape without leaking real records is genuinely subtle, and getting it wrong in the leaking direction is a catastrophe rather than a bug. Conservative defaults matter more than fidelity here.

Build notes

Schema introspection, distribution sampling, constrained generation that respects foreign keys. Referential integrity is the hard part: data that violates constraints does not load, and data that loads but has no realistic joins is useless.

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