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Batteries included backends covering database, authentication, storage, and APIs.
13 products, 7 Projects: 5 open source, 1 source-available, 1 unresolved-license
Internal tool builder assembled from components and queries
Retool exists because internal admin panels are important, tedious, and never prioritised. It connects to databases and APIs directly and puts a drag and drop interface over them, so an operations tool takes an afternoon rather than a sprint.
Postgres-powered backend platform for production apps
Supabase gives an application everything it needs on the server side without hiding the database behind a proprietary abstraction. The primitive is plain Postgres, and the platform layers authentication, generated APIs, storage, realtime subscriptions, and edge functions on top of it.
Google's application backend for mobile and web
Firebase gets a product to users faster than almost anything else. Authentication, a realtime document database, storage, hosting, and functions arrive already wired together, with client SDKs that handle offline state.
Hosted identity covering login, SSO, and multi-factor
Auth0 made outsourcing authentication respectable. Social providers, enterprise SSO, multi-factor, and the awkward edges of OAuth arrive already handled, with rules and actions for the parts that are specific to your product.
Spreadsheet interface over a real relational database
Airtable let non-engineers build relational data models without knowing they were doing it. Linked records, typed fields, and multiple views over one table cover an enormous amount of internal tooling that would otherwise be a spreadsheet or a small application.
Hosted commerce covering storefront, checkout, and payments
Shopify's real product is checkout. Conversion on a Shopify checkout is high enough, and the payment, tax, and fraud handling behind it complete enough, that most merchants should think very hard before replacing it.
Hosted search with millisecond responses and ranking control
Algolia is search as a managed service, tuned so hard for latency that typing into a search box feels like filtering a local list. Typo tolerance, synonyms, and merchandising rules are all configurable without touching the index code.
Typo-tolerant search that is fast to run and fast to tune
Meilisearch is a search engine you can be productive with in an afternoon. Indexing is a POST, relevance is tuned through an ordered list of ranking rules, and results come back typo-tolerant by default.
Deploy applications to your own servers with one click
Coolify is a deployment platform that runs on servers you already pay for. It builds from a Git repository, provisions databases, issues certificates, and handles rollbacks, without the per-instance pricing of a hosted platform.
Commerce building blocks rather than a fixed storefront
Medusa is a set of commerce modules - cart, orders, pricing, inventory, fulfilment - exposed as APIs you compose, rather than a themed storefront you customise around the edges.
A content platform that wraps your existing SQL database
Directus points at a SQL database you already have and generates an admin interface and an API over it, without imposing its own schema. Existing tables keep their names, types, and constraints.
Passkeys, SSO, and MFA without vendor lock-in
Hanko is an authentication service built passkey-first rather than passkey-eventually. Passwords are optional from the start, and the hosted components handle the awkward parts of the WebAuthn ceremony that teams usually get wrong.
No-code database and application builder you can host
Baserow is a spreadsheet-shaped database with the API and permission model of a real backend underneath. Non-technical colleagues get grid, gallery, kanban, and calendar views; engineers get a REST API and webhooks over the same data.
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