Submitted to the AWS H0 Hackathon — Vercel v0 + AWS Databases track. #H0Hackathon
The Problem
Truss is a B2C SaaS for content creators. You upload a video or connect a live stream, and Truss uses Gemini to extract the highest-engagement moments, scores each for virality, and publishes 9:16 vertical clips across YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, and Discord.
The data model behind this sounds deceptively simple: users, videos, clips, streams, analytics, platform tokens. Six entities. But the access patterns are what matter — and they pushed me toward a single-table DynamoDB design over a relational database in ways I didn't fully anticipate when I started.
Why DynamoDB Instead of Postgres
