Nhost
Infrastructure
backend as a service
SHOW HN2020
210points
69comments
#256of 3,028 in 2020
Top 9%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
5 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 7 critical, out of 26 comments about the project. Thread score +0.02.
Pricing: 1 for, 3 againstIdea: 1 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Support and customer service are excellent
From 2 comments
I've been testing NHost the past few weeks, and I have to say that (A) it's fantastic, and (B) the support is even better. The combination of Postgres plus Hasura, plus a really…
chris_st on HNI 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…
buzzerbetrayed on HN
Postgres plus Hasura with smooth auth makes development fast
From 1 comment
I've been testing NHost the past few weeks, and I have to say that (A) it's fantastic, and (B) the support is even better. The combination of Postgres plus Hasura, plus a really…
chris_st on HN
Objections
Pricing jumps steeply above 5 GB and is hard to justify versus Firebase free tier
From 2 comments
That's a dramatic jump in pricing from 0-5 GBs to > 5 GBs. Is there a more flexible pricing plan in the works? A hobbyist app could still be storing a large amount of data but…
ctrlaltdylan on HNI 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…
buzzerbetrayed on HN
No compute or serverless functions offered yet
From 2 comments
This looks pretty great. Our SAAS product was initially based on Firebase, but we're in the process of migrating to almost the same stack that you are offering (but hosted on…
nicoburns on HN> Yes, either cloud functions (like Vercel's `/api` approach that we love) or docker containers (something like Google Cloud Run) will be one three big features we'll be working…
nicoburns on HN
Cold starts would make serverless functions slow
From 2 comments
> Yes, either cloud functions (like Vercel's `/api` approach that we love) or docker containers (something like Google Cloud Run) will be one three big features we'll be working…
nicoburns on HN200ms would likely be fine (although not ideal), but I've seen more like to 3000ms with Firebase Cloud Functions, and have heard stories of similar with AWS Lambda. The…
nicoburns on HN
No offline support or live sync like Firestore
From 2 comments
With Firestore, even when offline you still see your edits in your query results (flagged as such). This cannot be done with GraphQL, as the meaning of a GraphQL mutation is…
yencabulator on HNThis is not the same at all as live synchronization between devices, also, the Firebase SDK clients allow for offline data persistence.
Scarbutt on HN
Requests
Managed compute or container service
From 1 comment
This looks pretty great. Our SAAS product was initially based on Firebase, but we're in the process of migrating to almost the same stack that you are offering (but hosted on…
nicoburns on HN
Managed Redis or in-memory cache
From 1 comment
This looks pretty great. Our SAAS product was initially based on Firebase, but we're in the process of migrating to almost the same stack that you are offering (but hosted on…
nicoburns on HN
Availability and durability guarantees
From 1 comment
This looks pretty great. Our SAAS product was initially based on Firebase, but we're in the process of migrating to almost the same stack that you are offering (but hosted on…
nicoburns on HN
Pay-as-you-go pricing option
From 2 comments
One of the biggest advantages to firebase is its Blaze Plan, in which you pay for how much you use each service. This project seems to only have the standard 3 tier plan...…
gitgud on HNThis looks pretty great. Our SAAS product was initially based on Firebase, but we're in the process of migrating to almost the same stack that you are offering (but hosted on…
nicoburns on HN
Questions
How does live synchronization between users work?
From 1 comment
If it is really a Firebase alternative, how does it manage live synchronization of data between users? or "cloud functions"? didn't find anything on the website.
Scarbutt on HN
How is it open source and how to self-host?
From 2 comments
Have I missed something? How is this Open Source?
mkarliner on HNAre there any docs/issues/comments anywhere with information on how to self-host this?
wayneftw on HN
How does it compare to Supabase?
From 1 comment
I have been bitten by Firebase scalability restrictions before, so good to see alternatives coming up. How do you compare to Supabase (http://supabase.io/)?
inian on HN
Alternatives named
Firebase
From 2 comments
For some pricing perspective, I'm on firebase/cloud functions. I pay ~$10/month for their smallest cloud sql postgres instance and the rest of the usage pretty much falls under…
latchkey on HNThat's a dramatic jump in pricing from 0-5 GBs to > 5 GBs. Is there a more flexible pricing plan in the works? A hobbyist app could still be storing a large amount of data but…
ctrlaltdylan on HN
Supabase
From 1 comment
I have been bitten by Firebase scalability restrictions before, so good to see alternatives coming up. How do you compare to Supabase (http://supabase.io/)?
inian on HN
Hasura
From 1 comment
Do you prefer a UI? Like Hasura, AppSync, 8base, and firebase? The DSL is very very close to GraphQL’s SDL though, so learning it shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes. The problem…
anasbarg on HN
AppSync and 8base
From 1 comment
Do you prefer a UI? Like Hasura, AppSync, 8base, and firebase? The DSL is very very close to GraphQL’s SDL though, so learning it shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes. The problem…
anasbarg on HN
PouchDB and RxDB
From 2 comments
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've been trying to get Couchdb to…
xrd on HNYou should try RxDB. It is based on pouchdb and therefore supports offline first [1]. Also you can use the graphql replication so that you are not limited to couchdb backend.…
typingmonkey on HN