Show HN: Hippobase – easily self-host open source databases

I am getting frustrated by the increase of hn articles about "self-hosting" yet the software described is reliant on a cloud service. To me, "self-hosting" means I can use it on my own computer, without a connection to the internet.

This is the sixth "product" you've launched in the last month or so - are you actually working on any of these?

It says open source DBs like MongoDB, however just a correction, MongoDB is no longer open source

Self means mine. MY infra. Hippobase is not mine, stop misusing the self-host keywords for clicks, please.

Just launched on ProductHunt: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.producthunt.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;hippobase" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.producthunt.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;hippobase</a>

Running a prod db on EC2 isn’t a trivial undertaking- I see the value in a service that can affordably recreate the managed DB experience. I have lots of questions about how and what I can&#x2F;can’t do with the system, like install foreign data wrappers, etc that RDS disallows. Is binlog&#x2F;PITR backup expected to be available at some point?

better title: &quot;easily self-provision open source DBs on AWS VMs&quot;

Can’t wait to try this out.<p>It’s interesting to see people building improved UX workflows on top of AWS.

Why would anyone use your service when it&#x27;s beyond trivial - especially for your presumed target demographic - to just do this shit themselves?