I think my database app is finally ready...
I've been working on my app around the clock for 6 months now. I've always had a soft spot in my heart for databases because tinkering with MySQL in 2015 was what got me interested in programming.
I'm so proud of this, entirely on my own I have built a competitor to Supabase, Neon, PlanetScale, Upstash, and basically every other DBaaS provider, but for 21 databases. This includes databases that do not have serverless platforms online.
It is open core, built around my open source package named "SpinDB". And there is a companion desktop app I built for it as well which is basically a combo of an SQL IDE and DBNgin/Postgres.app but for all 21 databases.
I've never been more proud of anything else that I've ever built before. I also haven't told anybody about it aside from a few close friends.
I'm still trying to figure out if it is actually a viable product or if hosting costs are going to make it impossible but in optimistic.
Several databases have a free tier including postgres and redis. You pick any database and it gives you a connection string. You can do anything with it. You can IP restrict it.
It also has a web IDE which is unique for each supported database, postgres and MySQL and sqlite you'd think could all use the same editor, but it turns out it's not quite that simple.
But the real reason I'm here, someone offered to buy it but I barely finished wiring up the billing late last night and they wanted me to make a decision 2 weeks ago. They would have given me $200k in stock over 4 years as an acquihire situation. So really it was a job offer with equity in exchange for my IP. I turned it down because I didn't want to give up the IP. I've put about 2,000 hours into working on this and no matter what you think, this is not an easy problem to solve.
To be honest, I don't know if anybody will truly appreciate how insane it is for one solo dev to build this as a side project while working a normal 9-5 but I'm more proud of this than anything else I've ever built by a long shot.
If anyone is interested, it is Layerbase
I am looking for early feedback. It is brand new so be mindful about if you use it for anything. It is not guaranteed that I'm going to keep it up and running. If I don't get enough users to cover the hosting costs at least. But if anyone wants to use it and stay in touch, I will personally ensure that your data is safe and help migrate it elsewhere if I ever need to sunset this thing.
I'm really looking for feedback on literally every aspect of it. I don't think it's ready for ProductHunt or HackerNews yet but it thought this subreddit might appreciate it.
Now whether or not I can turn this into a business is a whole separate issue and I'm very nervous I won't figure that part out.