PocketBase... The Ultimate Side-Hustle Backend?

Take first look at PocketBase, a new backend platform using the Go programming language and SQLite database that compiles to a single executable. It is a lightweight alternative to tools like Firebase and Supabase for easy backend development.

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- What is PocketBase?
- Pocketbase vs Supabase
- Pocketbase vs Firebase
- Is PocketBase production ready?
- How to choose a backend for an app?

[karthik]

"Destined to fail, but if not.. does it scale" This should be the motto for all side projects

[dom]

we need another backend base service as an alternative to this one. and also a new javascript framework while we are at it

[Oliver_Saer]

Just want to say that I absolutely love your humour - "your side project which is destined to fail", saying "sharding" but putting "sharting" on-screen, etc...

Actually helps me retain the information because the laughs are keeping me focused, whereas other YouTubers lose me within seconds due to their long-winded, monotone, no-nonsense approach to teaching programming concepts.

[Ddxcv]

Start your project now by building your backend from scratch ❌
Spend endless hours looking at BaaS alternatives and never actually start your project ✅

[felipeflores]

He said he was gonna look at pocketbase over the weekend and here we are. Boy does he deliver!

[daytonmux]

TIL Firebase uses “sharting” to horizontally scale. Only downsides of this strategy are the underwear overhead and the smell, but I find the tradeoff to be worth it, especially if you aren’t doing much code-sniffing

[ricardofabilareyes]

I have a SASS project I made years ago with Laravel and uses SQLite. Never had an issue with it. On of the best engineering project of all time. A fully transactional database in just a simple file is awesome.

[tsizzle_]

Follower for a while, thanks for all the hard work!

[apsufnfkascapsaclaw]

i love how pocketbase has real-time demo, so you can see other people testing it

[soviut]

You can scale horizontally by giving each customer their own executable. You don't have to worry about "noisy neighbours", only one customer is affected if an app goes down, you can scale each customer independently and you can easily A/B test features or do progressive rollouts of new versions.

[nacs]

This Pocketbase project is incredible. A single binary that does all that whereas Appwrite/Supabase require like 6 large containers.
Definitely using this for my next "startup".

[OzzyTheGiant]

This is the ultimate wombo combo! Go with Echo framework and Svelte for the UI plus SQLite for maximum portability; no Docker required. This is the gold standard for me in my mind; three seriously underrated pieces of technology orchestrated together to create a small binary that is easily self-hostable.

[lucasharskamp]

SQLite is perfectly useful in production for mobile apps, to have local caching. Very useful for apps that require a lot of downloads while the user is likely not around a wifi-spot, or as a way to lower the amount of calls to servers.

[jeremiahgavin]

Thanks for putting this out. I'm definitely considering this as the backend for a multiplayer browser game.

[mrvillage]

I've been running Supabase self hosted for a long time now, deploying on x86 was a really painless process if you follow their guide, and on the 1 CPU, 1GB of RAM I bought for the side project it's for it works great (the project also has super low traffic, but the specs are comparable to a basic Supabase plan). The only kink was when I tried to deploy on ARM, despite the images saying they're built for ARM and Supabase claiming they built them for ARM, the Postgres image simply doesn't work (the others do though). After a log of work, just building Postgres image from the supabase/postgres repo manually worked like a charm.

[brian_ball]

Perfect for my side project which is "destined to fail!" 🤣

[kennette]

I’m about to migrate from Firebase to Self Hosted Supabase for our infra for some client specific storage location requirements that cannot be met through GCP.

Obviously I came to Fireship for inspiration!! Happy to read comments that say it’s not too tough ❤ 🤞

[lachainedanorak]

Go & Svelte are my favorite languages, thanks for the report !!

[adamnagy]

We use supabase in production for 4k+ users, and We have spent few hours figuring out how to setup email templates 😅😅, and now it's okay there are some bugs like sometimes reset password would not get processed but it can be a client sided thing

[pigalex]

i just rolled my own backend + api framework instead. after chasing my tail a little bit it’s now at a good point of stability and i really like it. it’s basically just micro services but in a single daemon w/ hot loading