Not going to lie.. the more I use Postgres the more I realize my entire application is Postgres. Soon you'll be doing entire CRUD endpoints and sending emails from Postgres...
this is so awesome. for a small team building infrastructure on the cheap, building background jobs on postgres is so much nicer than using more complex tools like rabbitmq, etc .
Are you guys Postgres-centric, out of curiosity? Really interesting product, sort of in the same ballpark of Spinoff and other Sheets-based low-code SaaS but an approach more unique than I've seen before.
For anyone who wants to help: I've been looking at a bunch of different ways to achieve high-availability postgres. What approach would you all suggest for a solo startup on a limited budget
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That’s really what’s keeping me from developing stuff with it. I can get the job done with dynamodb but I’m really looking forward to building something with Postgres in a “serverless” context.
Disappointed it requires postgres. We need to be focusing on running some of these things at home with small, mostly self-contained desktop-style apps. Many people have always on home machines (or this stuff could justify one). NAT busting has been mostly solved, but you could use something like Tor onion services otherwise.
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I am glad someone is taking on this challenge! Its been a few years since I was saying that the last piece of the serverless puzzle is a good postgres serverless database.
If I was not working on my startup I would apply for sure. It would be nice to present the project on the CMU database group youtube channel at some point to dive into the implementation.
I think using Postgres as a runtime would feel like a PaaS runtime not much different from other offerings in the market. But, for something self-hosted, it feels like super powers in the beginning.
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