# What is Carpool?

## What is Carpool?

Carpool simplifies backend development so that Web3 teams can focus on building remarkable applications.

Turning an MVP into a serious product requires baseline capabilities like performant queries, monitoring, and analytics. This takes a dedicated engineering team months of valuable time, and requires setting up costly and complex infrastructure services. 

Carpool cuts that process down to minutes. Publish your Anchor IDL, provide your Solana program ID, and start consuming and analyzing your program data instantly. Carpool is the most powerful data, analytics, and operations platform available, all at a fraction of the cost.

## Want to jump right in?

Jump into our Getting Started docs and onboard in under 5 minutes.

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[Getting Started](/carpool/welcome/getting-started.md)
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## Looking for more?

Dive a little deeper and explore our robust query API to get an idea of everything that's possible with Carpool:

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[API Reference](/carpool/api-reference/about-our-query-api.md)
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Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://carpool.gitbook.io/carpool/welcome/what-is-carpool.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.