Appwrite
Infrastructure
backend as a service
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
21 positive, 46 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 71 comments about the project. Thread score +0.24.
Idea: 5 for, 1 againstDocs: 3 for, 0 againstPricing: 2 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Self-hosting is easy with a single command install
From 2 comments
Our self-hosted solution was designed to be easy to setup in both development and production. I hope you'll enjoy our single command installation. Also, self-hosting is at the…
eldad_fux on HNMy honest two cents, which is biased, so take liberal amounts of salt. I think Supabase is verbose. You get to dig around the PostgreSQL instance, write SQL, etc. I know people…
vincentge on HN
Polished website and documentation
From 2 comments
I'm pretty wary of this sort of thing, but I've got to say, what you've produced looks awesome, and I will be thinking of a product to try it on! I know it sounds silly to say…
robertlagrant on HNhttps://appwrite.io/docs/installation https://appwrite.io/docs/production I would really love to see something like this in the supabase docs. They are currently lacking a little…
mccorrinall on HN
Seen as a serious alternative to Firebase and Supabase
From 2 comments
I've been looking into supabase for a long time, trying to decide if i want to adopt it, but after many months of keeping an eye on them, appwrite comes along and i'm instantly…
andreisbc on HNBefore I even look into it, I'll tell you this: the headline was enough to grab my attention on its own. I strongly feel this is a badly underserved niche and I've had major…
aerovistae on HN
Objections
Written in PHP and not built on Postgres
From 1 comment
From my quick research when I was selecting the next backend I was going to use for a project in the past, and today reading some responses on this page: - Appwrite is written in…
20220322-beans on HN
No hosted cloud version yet
From 2 comments
From my quick research when I was selecting the next backend I was going to use for a project in the past, and today reading some responses on this page: - Appwrite is written in…
20220322-beans on HNHmm... I think I'm not quite the target market. For me the whole point of a tool like this is that I don't need to worry about maintaining this kind of thing. All the guff around…
nicoburns on HN
Self-hosting a backend-as-a-service defeats the purpose for some
From 2 comments
Strictly speaking, if I spin up a droplet on DO and install Appwrite on it, it won't be a BAAS anymore, correct? Sorry but "self-host your own BAAS" is an oxymoron. IMO,…
bikamonki on HNHmm... I think I'm not quite the target market. For me the whole point of a tool like this is that I don't need to worry about maintaining this kind of thing. All the guff around…
nicoburns on HN
Requests
Postgres support
From 2 comments
I was about to throw in the towel after evaluating Firebase / Supabase last week for a new project I'm working on and revert back to good o'l Laravel, but Appwrite looks very…
vincentmarle on HNNot yet, but it's coming soon. Appwrite is not coupled to any database or other under the hood technology.
eldad_fux on HN
Joins, transactions and geo queries
From 1 comment
Yes we do plan to add support got joins, transactions, atomic operations and geo queries soon
christyjacob4 on HN
Firebase migration path or shim
From 2 comments
I have a firebase project I need to move asap. How quickly, realistically, could I move to your solution? Do the API’s map directly? Sorta? Or is this inspired by? Is the…
RileyJames on HNDo you guys have Firebase shim/adapter to easy transition? Also, please take a look at CapRover, combining that with Appwrite might be a powerful combo (there's overlap).
wiradikusuma on HN
Godot SDK support
From 1 comment
Godot support would be awesome
lfkdev on HN
Questions
How does it compare to Supabase
From 2 comments
Any comparison with Supabase, which is also a backend-as-a-service? [0] [0] https://supabase.com/
cercatrova on HNOver the past few months we’ve been trying hard to make Appwrite as simple to setup and use as possible. Your candid feedback has been crucial in shaping the project and it would…
christyjacob4 on HN
Pricing for the hosted cloud
From 2 comments
What's the pricing model for cloud.
peppertree on HNI actually bookmarked the repo a few months ago but never got around to using it. Seems like a great product. As someone who is building a small project for personal use (and has…
u2077 on HN
How it scales websocket connections and functions
From 1 comment
Maybe I'm looking in the right place but I couldn't find docs on scaling. How does Appwrite scale up WS connection pool, workers, cloud functions.
peppertree on HN
Alternatives named
Supabase
From 2 comments
Thank you so much for Appwrite! The community on Discord is very helpful and the self hosting guide is great. Very unlike my terrible experience with Supabase who seem to do…
Magodo on HNI’m curious why Supabase didn’t suit your needs, especially since you’re looking for Postgres support? (Disclosure: supabase ceo)
kiwicopple on HN
Firebase
From 2 comments
Before I even look into it, I'll tell you this: the headline was enough to grab my attention on its own. I strongly feel this is a badly underserved niche and I've had major…
aerovistae on HNFor me the most painful part was latency, and especially cloud function latency. I wanted to create an entire API through cloud functions and rapidly discovered that they have…
aerovistae on HN
Hasura
From 1 comment
Just curious, did you try Hasura too?
johnx123-up on HN
Nhost
From 1 comment
You might be interested in what we're building with http://nhost.io. We have serverless functions available together with event triggers (hooks) on database events using Postgres…
elitan on HN