DBOS
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Nov 13, 2025first mention
Sep 14, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Where DBOS absolutely shines is”
handles payments/orderson “Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows”
“If you’re already running Postgres, check out DBOS[0].”
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“I love the product and what you are doing -- it's definitely needed and valuable.”
Caveats and dissent
“I wasn’t convinced I wouldn’t get rug pulled by a VC backed company”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“DBOS implements a simpler library-based architecture where each of your processes independently "pulls" from a database queue.”
DBOS team memberon “Show HN: DBOS Java – Postgres-Backed Durable Workflows”
Threads where it came up
- Show HN: DBOS Java – Postgres-Backed Durable Workflows 2 mentions
- Temporal raises $550M at a $12.55B valuation 1 mention
- Show HN: DBOSify – Drop-in Temporal replacement built on Postgres 1 mention
- Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows 1 mention
- Ask HN: Do you still run Redis and workers just for background jobs? 1 mention
Data: dbos.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 5
“I think it’s nice that it’s just an SDK and a Postgres database, but they don’t have SDKs for the languages we use at work.”
“I wasn’t convinced I wouldn’t get rug pulled by a VC backed company”
“Where DBOS absolutely shines is”
“If you’re already running Postgres, check out DBOS[0].”
“I love the product and what you are doing -- it's definitely needed and valuable.”