🚀 We Just Launched Stof – An Open-Source Project to Simplify Data Handling!

We’re Amelia and CJ from Formata, and we just launched Stof, an open-source project designed to make data handling easier, safer, and more efficient for developers and data engineers.

**Our Story
**We have been working on this project for about 6 months, and both left our jobs to be full-time. We started this because we realized that the way we work with data hasn't fundamentally changed in about 20 years and we felt that needed to change with the increased use of AI. This project was made out of necessity, because while working at a previous company we had to make it easier to work with many different types of graphics formats. We realized that this could also be done with different types of data more widely being used with AI today.

**What is Stof?
**Stof provides a unified data interface that simplifies validation, transformation, orchestration, structuring, and access control—turning data into a sandboxed runtime that can perform logic anywhere. Our goal is to eliminate the pain of managing messy data pipelines, making development more productive and scalable. Think of Stof as a more dynamic JSON document :)

**Why Open Source?
**We believe that the best developer tools are built with community collaboration. By open-sourcing Stof, we want to create something that grows with input from developers, data engineers, and builders like you.

*What we've learned
*-Finding the first users and right use cases is hard, but we're hopeful that the Indie Hacker community can help us find the right people who are psyched about our project

• Gaining developer's trust is hard, that's why we're working diligently offer helpful and comprehensive docs to make using Stof easy - and thats why we'd love your feedback! :)
• Messaging for something new that isnt widely understood is very difficult - thats why we'd really appreciate your feedback on our website so that we don't over complicate it

How You Can Help:
✅ Star us on GitHub
✅ Give feedback or contribute: We’re actively looking for contributors—check out our docs to get started!

✅ Contact us with any problems you are currently facing when trying to manage, classify, and structure data to work more efficiently with your AI
✅ Give us feedback on our docs, if there is anything you'd like to see that we don't already have, if you would like more examples for specific use cases.
✅ Roast our website! We'd love to know how we can improve our messaging!

We're just getting started, and we'd love your thoughts! What challenges do you face when working with data? How can Stof help? Drop a comment below

Looking forward to hearing from you all! 🚀