Show HN: Nhost – Open source Firebase alternative with GraphQL

This is so, so interesting. There have been lots of discussions about PouchDB and GunJs but they always seemed limited in the backend story. I&#x27;ve been trying to get Couchdb to work with my own proxies for about a year and it is a big pain point. But, the real time synchronization and offline support is so compelling with those stacks. Thinking in documents and only about your front end code (letting the library do the hard work of synchronization) removes a lot of stress.<p>Using postgresql alone would make this super exciting. Adding graphql takes it to &quot;giddy&quot; level for me.<p>Is there a story for offline support? Is there perhaps a react library that could help here? The tutorial uses subscriptions, wonder what happens when the app goes offline?<p>This is so amazing. I&#x27;m going to play with it and Svelte and see how it goes.<p>Well done!

For some pricing perspective, I&#x27;m on firebase&#x2F;cloud functions. I pay ~$10&#x2F;month for their smallest cloud sql postgres instance and the rest of the usage pretty much falls under their free tier.<p>For that $10, I get database backups, custom domains and no idea what team projects are, but I can add others to my project. On top of that, I also get everything else that firebase offers... task queue (PubSub), log analysis, hosting, realtime database, analytics, ability to hire someone who knows firebase&#x2F;gcp, google&#x27;s entire devops team.<p>In order to get a bit closer to that level of features, I&#x27;d have to bump up to the $39&#x2F;mo plan. While I appreciate the competition, this doesn&#x27;t compete for me yet.

Hi.<p>We&#x27;re excited to introduce you to Nhost!<p>When building web and mobile apps, developers spend a considerable amount of time just to have a working skeleton deployed and ready-to-use. Things like provisioning and configuring servers, creating and configuring a database, implementing an API, authentication and authorization for users, storage for files and images, and a bunch of other security related work. Creating and maintaining all this infrastructure takes hundreds of hours and manual tasks each year.<p>We believe that those things are better offloaded to domain experts so that you can focus on accelerating your product innovation and growth.<p>Nhost allows products to get a ready-to-use, secure and performant backend in roughly 40 seconds, rather than months by integrating a bunch of open-source (no vendor lock-in) components and best practices.<p>Let us know if you have any questions or suggestions, we would love to hear from you.

That&#x27;s a dramatic jump in pricing from 0-5 GBs to &gt; 5 GBs.<p>Is there a more flexible pricing plan in the works? A hobbyist app could still be storing a large amount of data but not charging much to justify a $300&#x2F;m db bill.

I have been bitten by Firebase scalability restrictions before, so good to see alternatives coming up. How do you compare to Supabase (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;supabase.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;supabase.io&#x2F;</a>)?

I used Nhost a few months ago for a small project. The pricing was originally a huge block for me. I emailed them (elitan here on HN) to talk about pricing. He took my feedback and ended up giving me a big discount on a single project. Overall I was very impressed with the attention and customer service I got.<p>I don&#x27;t really use Nhost for anything currently, but I&#x27;m definitely rooting for them. The product is really well made, and is exactly what I was looking for at the time (a completely managed Hasura instance). For their sake, I wish they didn&#x27;t have to compete with the insanely generous free tier of Firebase, as that&#x27;s nearly impossible to compete with as a new company. I think the Nhost pricing model becomes much more reasonable as you scale in size.<p>I hope to have the need to use Nhost again in the future. Would recommend.

I&#x27;ve been testing NHost the past few weeks, and I have to say that (A) it&#x27;s fantastic, and (B) the support is even better. The combination of Postgres plus Hasura, plus a really nice smooth auth solution makes development and deploy fast and easy.

Have I missed something? How is this Open Source?

Are there any docs&#x2F;issues&#x2F;comments anywhere with information on how to self-host this?

I&#x27;ve been working on a language for building GraphQL servers quickly.<p>It use PostgreSQL for storage, it supports serverless functions using OpenWhisk, it allows you to write authorization rules, and it sets up user authentication workflows.<p>The project is open-source, any feedback is highly appreciated: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;anasbarg&#x2F;pragma" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;anasbarg&#x2F;pragma</a>

One of the biggest advantages to firebase is its <i>Blaze Plan</i>, in which you pay for how much you use each service. This project seems to only have the standard 3 tier plan...<p>Personally I prefer the pay as you go, as it&#x27;s fair for both parties. Whereas with tiered payments, someone is always paying more than they need...

If it is really a Firebase alternative, how does it manage live synchronization of data between users? or &quot;cloud functions&quot;? didn&#x27;t find anything on the website.

How is auth implemented? Is keycloak or another oss package used or was it custom written?

Congrats on shipping! This looks amazing