alt Hacker NewsWhen you're experimenting on ideas, it's really nice when time to hello world is near zero. It's also nice when you aren't limited to a certain number of dbs or your projects get paused. This makes it so much more delightful to hack.
When you do want to get closer to the code, we think Instant provides a nicer abstraction for working with agents and getting deligthful experiences like a sync engine out of the box
You are right about the activation energy to throw up anything new really comes down to a hosted db that won't rot. My initial experience with supabase was incredible in that sense: any client-side framework I wanted, deployed statically while still integrating with full Postgres, for free!
Problem is supabase rots. And turning that project into anything meaningful is basically undoing everything you got for free up front.
My solution today is sqlite. I'm not diehard typescript so it turns out traditional backend apps like rails running sqlite on tiny/free hardwire is pretty nice.
That said, client-side runtime will always be alluring because it can be deployed statically. So you've got something there that I'll check out.