Alex Kates

@thealexkates

Founding Engineer @ Croissant

Philadelphia, PAJoined August 2021

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Hi, I'm Alex Kates 👋 I'm a product engineer currently working at Croissant as a Founding Engineer. I'm addicted to writing about building, and building things worth writing about. Some extracurriculars include AWS Community Builder Instructor at MIT xPRO Bootcamp Volunteer at Tech for Campaigns

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Introducing DynamoDB Extended - Query History, Favorites, and Editor Defaults

DynamoDB Extended is a Chrome extension that adds quality-of-life improvements to the AWS DynamoDB web console, including persistent query history, auto-unmarshalled JSON, and query replay. Every query you run is automatically saved, so you don't hav...

Jun 9, 20251 min read

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Let's Talk About Rejection

On March 4th, 2025, I woke up thinking it was just another Tuesday morning. Like many people, I started my day by making a cup of coffee and scrolling through social media. But this day was different because it was the AWS Community Builder acceptanc...

Mar 6, 20253 min read

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Introducing CongressGPT

TL;DR For the Hashnode AI For Tomorrow Hackathon, I launched CongressGPT to help us finally understand what Congress is actually doing. CongressGPT lets users have natural language conversations with the latest bills from the United States House of R...

Jul 28, 20242 min read

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How I Built a Guestbook Page using Supabase and Next.js

I've come across a fun website feature that has been appearing mainly on developers' personal sites: a Guestbook page where users can sign in and leave a message. This somewhat reminds me of the old Facebook wall from the 2000s which I admit I miss v...

Feb 22, 202413 min read

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Introducing Hashnode Next

TL;DR For the Hashnode APIs Hackathon, I launched hashnode-next, a beautifully simple Hashnode starter kit powered by Next.js and shadcn/ui. Hashnode-next is the fastest way to go headless with Hashnode, enabling you to migrate your blog with just on...

Feb 2, 20243 min read

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Introducing DynamoDB Extended - Query History, Favorites, and Editor Defaults

Let's Talk About Rejection

Introducing CongressGPT

How I Built a Guestbook Page using Supabase and Next.js

Introducing Hashnode Next