Appwrite

Infrastructure

backend as a service

SHOW HN2022

326points
118comments
#119of 2,570 in 2022
Top 5%of 2022 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

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 HN
    • My 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 HN
    • https://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 HN
    • 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 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 HN
    • Hmm... 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 HN
    • Hmm... 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 HN
    • Not 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 HN
    • Do 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

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 HN
    • Over 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 HN
    • I 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 HN
    • I’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 HN
    • For 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
  • 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

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