Case Study: Pipe went from prototype to production in 11 days with Hasura
Key results
The challenge
Pipe, a fintech startup, needed to balance rapid feature development with a small engineering team while keeping a flexible architecture and secure access to sensitive financial data. It wanted fast time-to-market and improved API performance without a large backend build-out.
The solution
Pipe adopted Hasura to auto-generate GraphQL APIs from its PostgreSQL database, unify existing REST APIs, and enforce row- and column-level security. The team went into production with Hasura within 11 days, simplifying the data-access layer between frontend and backend.
“Hasura is a fantastic way to create a data fetching layer to our database. It's ultra-stable and often better at planning queries than ones we were writing ourselves.”
PDPeter DownsDirector of Engineering, Pipe
The results, in context
Pipe attributed a 90% reduction in time for new feature development to Hasura and needed 50% fewer front-end developers, hiring three instead of a planned six, which it estimated at around $600K saved annually. The company reached production within 11 days and grew to over 3,500 customers in a year.