AccelProxy: Edge Caching and Query Optimizer for CRM
8/10
Demand Score
Slow CRM-backed pages waste seller time and cause abandoned workflows; at scale API limits and query shapes become bottlenecks.
8/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$3k-15k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
14 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
A managed proxy + SDK that sits between your apps and CRM APIs (Salesforce, Dynamics) to accelerate reads and heavy dashboards at scale. AccelProxy rewrites inefficient queries, caches high-cardinalit
🔗 Validated by Real User Complaints
This problem has been verified through 3 real user complaints:
Competitor Landscape
- Salesforce Platform Cache
- Heroku Redis
- New Relic (observability)
- Cloudflare Workers
- Algolia (for search offloading)
Must-Have Features for MVP
SOQL/FetchXML query analysis and auto-rewrites
Edge caching with role-aware cache keys and TTLs
Materialized aggregate views updated via CDC
Prefetching and batch request coalescing
Hotspot and N+1 detection with remediation suggestions
Rate-limit smoothing and backpressure control
Per-endpoint SLOs, alerts, and cost dashboards
Safe bypass routes for real-time reads
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Strict data residency/compliance for cached data
- Handling cache invalidation on complex permissions
- Vendor API limits and TOS compliance
- Stale data risks for time-sensitive workflows
Risk Level: High
🎯 Keys to Success
- 2-5x latency reduction for target endpoints
- Fewer API limit breaches and timeouts
- Seamless drop-in with minimal code changes
- Clear observability tying speed gains to revenue KPIs
Ready to Build This?
This hard-difficulty project could be your next micro-SaaS success.