AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Supapool – a Supabase per coding agent in ~400 ms
hi HN, I built supapool.io, an ephemeral full copy of supabase's services that you can spin up in ~400 ms (Auth, postgres, storage, realtime). so if you run multiple coding agents in parallel in different worktrees, they can now have their own copy of supabase without making changes that conflict with eachother. > why not use supabase docker locally? when I run 3-4 instances locally, my macbook gets hot and sometimes freezes. > why not use supabase branches? branches take minutes to setup, and are designed for persistence. this is expensive, and for a dev environment, it is too slow. > why…
Supapool provides ephemeral, isolated copies of Supabase services—including Auth, PostgreSQL, storage, and realtime—that spin up in approximately 400 milliseconds. It is designed for developers and AI coding agents… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Supabase▲2,325The Postgres developer platform is now generally available
2024 · supabase.com · its alternatives →
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hey hn, supabase ceo here this is a postgres connection pooler. it’s similar to pgbouncer, but built with Elixir and specifically designed for multi-tenancy. it’s still under development, but it’s at a stage where we can gather a feedback from the community and you can try it yourself. we aren’t using this in production yet, but aiming to deploy it for a subset of databases in the next 2 months. We have the following benchmarks (details in the readme): - Elixir Cluster maintaining 400 connections to a single Postgres database - 1_000_000 clients connecting to the Elixir cluster - Sending…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Easily build real-time apps that enables user collaboration
2022 · multiplayer.dev · its alternatives →
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InstantDB▲320Complete backend with auth and storage in one prompt
Apr 2026 · instantdb.com · its alternatives →
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Supabase Vector▲398The open source backend for AI applications
2023 · supabase.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I’m an engineer at Supabase [0] and one of the creators of this demo. My team and I have been working hard to bring developers the next version of Supabase Realtime. The current version of Realtime [1] is a Change Data Capture (CDC) server for a PostgreSQL database that broadcasts changes via WebSockets to authorized subscribers. It’s written in Elixir/Phoenix. The server utilizes PostgreSQL’s logical replication functionality, which writes database changes to Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) segment files, and a replication slot, responsible for managing and retaining WAL files.…
2022 · multiplayer.dev · its alternatives →
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A high-performance Postgres replication engine written in Rust. Embed it in your Rust application or run it as a standalone binary. - supabase/etl
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SuperHQ▲95Hey HN, I built SuperHQ, an app that lets you run coding agents in local sandboxes (powered by Shuru). No custom UI wrapping the agents, they run as CLI/TUI like they were designed to. It just provides you the tools most of us (okay, maybe just me?) needed for running multiple coding agents in parallel without worrying about breaking your system or work environment. Each agent runs in its own microVM. You mount your projects in, writes go to a tmpfs overlay so your host is never touched, and you get a unified diff view to accept or discard changes. API keys never enter the sandbox, they…
Apr 2026 · superhq.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi HN — we've built a testing framework for Supabase that spins up fast, isolated Postgres databases for each test case. It’s designed to make RLS policies easy to validate with real database state, without global test fixtures or mock auth. Features: - Instant isolated Postgres DBs per test - Automatic rollback after each test - RLS-native testing with `.setContext()` for auth simulation - Flexible seeding (SQL, CSV, JSON, JS) - Works with Jest, Mocha, and any async test runner - CI-friendly (runs cleanly in GitHub Actions) We also published example projects and a free set of tutorials:…
Nov 2025 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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Parallel Code▲159I kept running into a structural problem with AI coding tools. You try one agent. It makes changes. You try another. Now you're manually diffing branches and cleaning up experimental commits. The tools are powerful, but the workflow isn’t designed for comparison. So I built Parallel Code. It runs Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI natively (no API wrapper, no feature abstraction), but isolates each agent in: its own terminal its own Git worktree its own feature branch The workflow becomes: Spawn N worktrees Assign one AI agent per worktree Let them implement independently Compare diffs Merge…
Mar 2026 · parallelcode.app · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Lev and Justin here, authors of PgDog (https://pgdog.dev/), a connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder for PostgreSQL. If you build apps with a lot of traffic, you know the first thing to break is the database. We are solving this with a network proxy that works without requiring application code changes or database migrations. Our post from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099187 The most important update: we are in production. Sharding is used a lot, with direct-to-shard queries (one shard per query) working pretty much…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Supabase▲40The Postgres developer platform is now generally available
2024 · supabase.com · its alternatives →
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Powerful PostgreSQL tool is now open source for self-hosting
2021 · supabase.com · its alternatives →
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Announcing Appwrite 0.14 with 11 Cloud Function Runtimes! 🥳
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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8base▲211Bring powerful apps to market fast - 8base GraphQL Backend
2020 · 8base.com · its alternatives →
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Vibecode DB▲152The Frontend Database API Gateway
Dec 2025 · vibecode-db.geekyants.com · its alternatives →
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A bunch of developers and myself have created RepliByte - an open-source tool to seed a development database from a production database. Features: - Support data backup and restore for PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB - Replace sensitive data with fake data - Works on large database (> 10GB) (read Design) - Database Subsetting: Scale down a production database to a more reasonable size - Start a local database with the prod data in a single command - On-the-fly data (de)compression (Zlib) - On-the-fly data de/encryption (AES-256) - Fully stateless (no server, no daemon) and lightweight…
2022 · its alternatives →
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BaseBuddy▲103Turn your Supabase database into a WordPress-like editor
May 2026 · basebuddy.stack127.com · its alternatives →
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Always picking the right stack
2024 · supabase.com · its alternatives →
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Infinite▲74OS runtime unifying GA4, PostHog, + Stripe into a local db
Jun 2026 · infinite.fast · its alternatives →
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