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tonychang430

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About tonychang430

A Naive Philosopher Co-founder @ InsForge

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    Comment #46834341

    every once in a while i use this! it's so easy to memorize this domain

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    Comment #46834336

    Love to see Open source models doing better than SOTA

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    Show HN: InsForge – A Postgres BaaS built for prompt-driven development

    We built InsForge because we wanted to use pure prompts to build a production-grade app faster. In practice, AI isn’t reliable enough when generating code or configuring backend pi…

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    Comment #45451072

    For high-throughput applications, we expect minimal differences compared to Supabase on the hot path, since both ultimately run on native Postgres and rely on the same proven, open…

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    Comment #45450268

    For the hosted version, we completely manage Postgres for you — it’s fully provisioned, secured, and maintained in our cloud. That way you don’t have to worry about backups, scalin…

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    Comment #45450226

    We run on AWS as our underlying infrastructure, largely because of our team’s deep experience with it and the materiality of its ecosystem

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    Comment #45450188

    Right now our focus is purely on Postgres, since it integrates best with our agent-native system. That said, we do plan to support other database types in the future as the ecosyst…

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    Comment #45449949

    Eventually, we see InsForge as more than just a Supabase alternative. Supabase is great for giving developers a backend in minutes, but it was never designed with agents in mind. I…

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    Comment #45449872

    Supabase MCP is more like a wire — it gives you a way to connect APIs, but it’s still up to you to set up the backend logic, security, and debugging around it. Our MCP, on the othe…

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    Show HN: InsForge AI, Open-Source Agent Friendly Alternative to Supabase

    Hi HN, We are excited to present you InsForge AI. We quit Databricks, Meta, and Amazon to build *an agent-friendly Supabase alternative*. Why? Because current tools like Supabase m…

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    Show HN: InsForge AI, Open-Source Alternative to Supabase (YC S20)

    Hi HN, We are excited to present you InsForge AI. It is an open source project and we provide hosted versions with APIaccess as well. (Website: https://insforge.dev/ , Github: http…

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    Comment #45291709

    I tried it out in my cc and looks promising!