Hosted SOC2-compliant backend for your student grant platform – plug and comply.
High costs of SOC2 compliance and legal fees are crushing indie hackers building secure platforms for student government grants and scholarships.
grantguard provides pre-audited, SOC2-ready APIs for user auth, secure storage, and grant workflows. Indie hackers embed it via SDK, inheriting compliance without building from scratch. Reduces legal/audit fees by offloading infra to our certified stack.
Indie hackers (solo or small-team bootstrapped developers) building secure platforms for student government grants and scholarships
Drop-in hosted services optimized for grant application flows like secure submissions.
friendly
SOC2-compliant user login/signup with MFA.
Audit-logged file uploads for grant docs.
No-code grant approval pipelines with compliance checks.
Real-time SOC2 metrics for your integrations.
JS SDK for Next.js/React apps.
Downloadable logs for auditor review.
White-label your APIs.
Compliance breach notifications.
Usage stats for grant processing.
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| subdomain | text | Yes |
| created_at | timestamp | No |
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| user_id | uuid | No |
| service_type | text | No |
Relationships:
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| integration_id | uuid | No |
| event | text | No |
| timestamp | timestamp | No |
| ip | text | Yes |
Relationships:
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| user_id | uuid | No |
| name | text | No |
| steps | text | Yes |
Relationships:
/api/auth/loginUser authentication
/api/storage/uploadSecure file upload
/api/integrationsList user integrations
/api/logsFetch audit logs
/api/workflowsCreate workflow
100 API calls/day
No custom domains
| Month | Users | Conversion | MRR | ARR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month 1 | 80 | 4% | $64 | $768 |
| Month 6 | 700 | 8% | $1,120 | $13,440 |
Compliant auth, storage, workflows – pay $20/mo, skip the audits.
Target Twitter devs building grant tools via search 'building grant platform'. Offer free Enterprise trial for case studies. Engage in Product Hunt comments on similar tools.
Scalable auth
No full SOC2 bundle, extra costs
All-in-one grant bundle at $20
Open source
SOC2 enterprise only
Indie SOC2 from day 1
Network effects from shared compliance certs across users.
Supabase/Stripe SOC2 push makes hosted compliance hot for indies chasing grants.
Maintaining SOC2 on hosted services
Leverage Supabase SOC2 + annual audits
Devs prefer self-host
Free tier proves value
Success: 10 want hosted SOC2
Success: Full integration success
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