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On Cloudflare, it should use the `@neondatabase/serverless` driver configured here https://github.com/typebase-io/monorepo/blob/fa3af0b71126caa4c3158256fdf329adbe2ca8a6/apps/cli/src/helpers/constants.ts#L30", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Typebase \u2013 A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript"}, {"id": 786170512, "item_id": 49135657, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135657", "by": "bastawhiz", "date": "2026-08-01", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love Neon and think it's an incredible service", "excerpt": "I love this and agree with it so strongly. But I'm also shaken to my core that there's a $30/mo Neon bill for personal software. Even if it's being used for \"slightly larger projects\" as well that's a ton of overkill for what seems like mostly read only data. I'm the sort of person who leans on Postgres instead of sqlite, but I'll put aside the sqlite argument for now because the fruit is so low hanging here. These u", "context": "", "use_case": "managed Postgres", "switched_from": "", "story": "Software for One"}, {"id": 781343095, "item_id": 48833943, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48833943", "by": "catalystwayfare", "date": "2026-07-08", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Vercel, Neon, Sentry", "excerpt": "Catalyst\u00b7Wayfare AI | Lead AI Engineer + Agent Builders | Remote (US) | Full-time + Contract | https://www.catalystwayfare.ai/careers We build and ship production AI systems for mid-market enterprises in regulated and technical domains \u2014 finance, energy, industrials, healthcare. We do not stop at PowerPoint AI strategy. We ship working systems alongside our clients' engineering teams. Small teams, deep expertise, rea", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)"}, {"id": 781086083, "item_id": 48817880, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48817880", "by": "epolanski", "date": "2026-07-07", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Neon is a great solution..which fits a handful of use cases.", "excerpt": "I'm italian too. For payments I've used Mollie, which is EU based and has good DX. It also has something critical that Stripe does not: proper customer service. Adyen is also good. You're a bit generic on other fronts but Scaleway is an excellent EU-based cloud provider. Haven't missed anything from AWS so far. > Just take a look at Neon Postgres as an example: where do you find a product like this in Europe? Why wou", "context": "Italian developer", "use_case": "managed Postgres", "switched_from": "", "story": "Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors"}, {"id": 781073155, "item_id": 48817072, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48817072", "by": "LucaSiviero", "date": "2026-07-07", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Just take a look at Neon Postgres as an example: where do you find a product like this in Europe?", "excerpt": "As an Italian solo-founder, I have to admit that the US vendor dependency is really strong, but when you look at what you need to build a serious product, what can you actually use from European vendors that is even close to US products? Take Stripe as an example: is there a real alternative that covers what they do? Not to talk about Cloud and Edge Computing vendors: GCP, AWS, Cloudflare... does anyone even get clos", "context": "Italian solo-founder", "use_case": "managed Postgres", "switched_from": "", "story": "Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors"}, {"id": 778443747, "item_id": 48652734, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652734", "by": "eyob_94", "date": "2026-06-23", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "neondb for api key management", "excerpt": "Hi, Futrow is a live world cup api that provides real time events such as goals, red/yellow cards, fouls, penalties, half/full time, breaks and some more, it also shows match line ups, and currently working to expand on more. This is my first commercial product, and got my first sale in about 5 days after I launched, I was super happy when it happened, you have no idea. My tech stack includes Next.js for the frontend", "context": "", "use_case": "API key management", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 774162343, "item_id": 48385146, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48385146", "by": "catalystwayfare", "date": "2026-06-03", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Vercel, Neon, Sentry.", "excerpt": "Catalyst\u00b7Wayfare AI | Lead AI Engineer + Agent Builder + Platform Engineer | Remote (US) | Full-time / Part-time / Contract | https://catalystwayfare.ai/careers AI transformation firm shipping production AI systems for mid-market enterprises in regulated and technical domains \u2014 finance, energy, industrials, healthcare. We do not stop at PowerPoint AI strategy. We ship working systems alongside our clients' engineerin", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)"}, {"id": 770072049, "item_id": 48129503, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129503", "by": "vc289", "date": "2026-05-13", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We use neon to do this since we think they've implemented those two properties well.", "excerpt": "We've got docs on how we did it :) https://docs.tryardent.com/architecture But essentially we get around the restrictions of the original DB by replicating into a different postgres compatible DB that essentially serves as a read replica. That DB is the one that branches but since it mirrors the original DB you get effective clones By doing this we get a lot more control over what we can do to create the clones. The ", "context": "", "use_case": "copy-on-write Postgres branching", "switched_from": "", "story": "Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) \u2013 Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration"}, {"id": 770001490, "item_id": 48125093, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125093", "by": "fmajid", "date": "2026-05-13", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "If you are interested in having a Neon or git-like branching for PostgreSQL experience", "excerpt": "Doesn't look open-source. If you are interested in having a Neon or git-like branching for PostgreSQL experience, have a look at Xata, which is based on ZFS like Delphix was: https://github.com/xataio/xata", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) \u2013 Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration"}, {"id": 765378913, "item_id": 47836182, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836182", "by": "gulcin", "date": "2026-04-20", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "as an alternative to Neon", "excerpt": "Xata is open-source now, maybe you can give it a try as an alternative to Neon.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "What if database branching was easy?"}, {"id": 765344464, "item_id": 47834029, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834029", "by": "miketery", "date": "2026-04-20", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It seemed pretty cool", "excerpt": "We used neon at last job. It seemed pretty cool. What made you switch to planetscale?", "context": "", "use_case": "serverless Postgres", "switched_from": "", "story": "What if database branching was easy?"}, {"id": 764169571, "item_id": 47760598, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760598", "by": "d-lo", "date": "2026-04-13", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "a Postgres database hosted in Neon", "excerpt": "I was largely inspired by beads (https://github.com/gastownhall/beads) but ended up vibe coding something slightly more tailored for the way I like to work. It\u2019s basically a JIRA style task with a few fields (project, title, status, description, priority, parent task, and an array of notes) that I store in a Postgres database hosted in Neon. I have a lightweight API and human readable UI hosted in fly.io. The CLI is ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is Codex really on Par with Claude Code?"}, {"id": 757100869, "item_id": 47318804, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47318804", "by": "brian200", "date": "2026-03-09", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Neon Postgres (and probably other serverless DBs) drops idle connections", "excerpt": "I built a mem0-based personal memory server \u2014 a knowledge vault Claude can read/write to. Getting it working in Claude Code was easy. Claude.ai web, mobile, and Desktop? Much harder, because of auth. Claude.ai custom connectors require full OAuth 2.1. FastMCP gives you an in-memory test provider (useless in prod) or a proxy that requires Google/GitHub/Auth0 as an identity provider. I didn't want to set up Auth0 for a", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Personal MCP server on every Claude platform without Auth0"}, {"id": 756757649, "item_id": 47297353, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47297353", "by": "kencho", "date": "2026-03-08", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "we replaced pinecone and rds with neon under the hood", "excerpt": "pgvector is great if you're already on postgres and only need text search. funny enough, Neon Postgres actually featured us in a case study about this exact topic. we replaced pinecone and rds with neon under the hood: https://neon.com/blog/vecstore-replacing-pinecone-and-rds-with-neon the gap shows up when you need image search, face search, or content moderation on top of text search. that's where a dedicated api m", "context": "", "use_case": "Postgres backend for search", "switched_from": "Pinecone, Amazon RDS", "story": "You Don't Need a Vector Database"}, {"id": 754662436, "item_id": 47166402, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166402", "by": "HiTechK", "date": "2026-02-26", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Built with Next.js 16, Clerk for auth, and Neon for the database.", "excerpt": "Hi HN, I\u2019m the maker of EZClaw. I like OpenClaw since it launched. It\u2019s one of the most powerful ways to run a private AI assistant, but I noticed a recurring problem: unless you\u2019re comfortable with Docker, environment variables, and cloud providers, it\u2019s hard to get it running and keep it stable. I built EZClaw to bridge that gap. It\u2019s a managed hosting platform that handles the entire deployment lifecycle. You just", "context": "", "use_case": "database", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: EZClaw \u2013 Deploy OpenClaw in Minutes"}, {"id": 754260864, "item_id": 47141304, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141304", "by": "receperdogan", "date": "2026-02-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "for this reason actually I use Neon tech", "excerpt": "I agree with you on this, for this reason actually I use Neon tech and in outplane.com you can create Neon tech serverless db and take backup in intervals, but your need is a fair need.", "context": "", "use_case": "Serverless Postgres database", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Out Plane \u2013 A PaaS I built solo from Istanbul in 3 months"}, {"id": 751775552, "item_id": 46985972, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46985972", "by": "ed", "date": "2026-02-11", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Neon is awesome, with lightweight branching and instant restores.", "excerpt": "I moved off Heroku to Neon + Hetzner today. I asked Claude to build /provision-server and /deploy skills. It was way easier than it should\u2019ve been. My infra costs on this one project have gone from $1200 to <$200/mo. Neon is awesome, with lightweight branching and instant restores. Heroku is most definitely dead.", "context": "moved a project off Heroku, cut infra costs from $1200 to under $200/mo", "use_case": "hosted Postgres database", "switched_from": "Heroku", "story": "Heroku Is Not Dead"}, {"id": 751114546, "item_id": 46944659, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46944659", "by": "pipnonsense", "date": "2026-02-09", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "They integrate with Neon", "excerpt": "Sorry for the late reply, hope you still see this. Yes, I went with Postgres to be safe. I am still serverless, but now there is Vercel doing a good job for serverless DB. They integrate with Neon, which makes Postgres serverless possible. More things are into Vercel as well, as the cron jobs, which I used to use AWS only for that. Much easier now in configuration by code through Vercel. Anything goes wrong with Verc", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Public domain classics delivered as weekly email installments"}, {"id": 750516758, "item_id": 46907297, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46907297", "by": "lima", "date": "2026-02-05", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "which all come with various downsides", "excerpt": "Postgres replication, even in synchronous mode, does not maintain its consistency guarantees during network partitions. It's not a CP system - I don't think it would actually pass a Jepsen test suite in a multi-node setup[1]. No amount of tooling can fix this without a consensus mechanism for transactions. Same with MySQL and many other \"traditional\" databases. It tends to work out because these failures are rare and", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "It's 2026, Just Use Postgres"}, {"id": 750011120, "item_id": 46875695, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46875695", "by": "lateforwork", "date": "2026-02-03", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Neon is from Databricks. Here's their pricing page: https://neon.com/pricing", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bunny Database"}, {"id": 750004928, "item_id": 46875308, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46875308", "by": "lateforwork", "date": "2026-02-03", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You can provision a free Postgres instance with a single click: https://neon.new/", "excerpt": "> Maybe I'm not the target market for this, but how hard is it REALLY to manage a RDBMS? It is not. You can provision a free Postgres instance with a single click: https://neon.new/", "context": "", "use_case": "Free hosted Postgres", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bunny Database"}, {"id": 741856032, "item_id": 46366002, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46366002", "by": "peterldowns", "date": "2025-12-23", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I've used Neon to do it for \"live\" integration environments", "excerpt": "Really interesting article, I didn't know that the template cloning strategy was configurable. Huge fan of template cloning in general; I've used Neon to do it for \"live\" integration environments, and I have a golang project https://github.com/peterldowns/pgtestdb that uses templates to give you ~unit-test-speed integration tests that each get their own fully-schema-migrated Postgres database. Back in the day (2013?)", "context": "", "use_case": "Database cloning for test envs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18"}, {"id": 741842464, "item_id": 46365154, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46365154", "by": "horse666", "date": "2025-12-23", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Obligatory mention of Neon (https://neon.com/)", "excerpt": "This is really cool, looking forward to trying it out. Obligatory mention of Neon (https://neon.com/) and Xata (https://xata.io/) which both support \u201cinstant\u201d Postgres DB branching on Postgres versions prior to 18.", "context": "", "use_case": "Instant Postgres branching", "switched_from": "", "story": "Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18"}, {"id": 741494997, "item_id": 46343437, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46343437", "by": "lukeigel", "date": "2025-12-21", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "used Neon as the db", "excerpt": "Thank you! The original site was on Railway and written in Pug! It crashed after Riley's tweet first went viral, then Riley did the heroic work of caching it all with Cloudflare after waking up to the site being down. After millions of unique visitors we racked up about $10 in costs. This time we switched to Next.js 16 + Vercel, used Cloudflare R2 for asset hosting, and used Neon as the db. R2 has free egress, and Ve", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Jmail \u2013 Google Suite for Epstein files"}, {"id": 741241296, "item_id": 46327581, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46327581", "by": "lateforwork", "date": "2025-12-19", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Databricks Neon is the easiest to provision", "excerpt": "Databricks Neon is the easiest to provision: Just click a button and you have a Postgres database, for 3 days. A couple more clicks and you can keep it forever, for free: https://neon.new/ Competition is good, but Snowflake needs to make it easier to provision. Also, light use should be free.", "context": "", "use_case": "Easy Postgres provisioning", "switched_from": "", "story": "Snowflake Postgres Is Now Available in Public Preview"}]}