Driftless Sync Orchestrator: adaptive, conflict-smart data synchronization
8/10
Demand Score
Executives lose trust when dashboards and systems disagree; drift creates financial and compliance risk.
7/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$1k-6k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
12 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Moderate
The Problem
A sync planner that profiles source/target systems, auto-selects the optimal mode per object (CDC, webhook, diff, or API polling), and rehearses changes in a shadow pipeline before live cutover. It le
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Competitor Landscape
- Fivetran
- Airbyte
- Stitch Data
- Hightouch
- Meltano
- Hevo
- Matillion
- AWS AppFlow
Must-Have Features for MVP
Mode selector (CDC/webhook/diff/poll) per object
Shadow pipelines with safe cutover
Learned conflict policies with human-in-the-loop
Deterministic replay and point-in-time backfill
Idempotency keys and de-dup windows
Lineage, data contracts, and anomaly alerts
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- API rate limits and quota spikes
- Schema evolution and missing incremental keys
- Handling PII/regulated data
- Sources without CDC/log access
Risk Level: Moderate
🎯 Keys to Success
- Drift rate reduction (records out of sync)
- Mean sync latency and success rate
- Time-to-recovery after failure
- Manual intervention minutes per week
- Number of systems onboarded without custom code
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This moderate-difficulty project could be your next micro-SaaS success.