Show HN: Open-source Firebase Alternative? It's here

Show HN: Open-source Firebase Alternative? It's here
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- Appwrite is really focused on a simplistic experience. If you check out our SDK documentation, we try to keep everything dead simple.

- Supabase allows more verbose control over their PostgreSQL instance, i.e. you're actually writing SQL and interacting through a SQL console. This might be your cup of tea. They also use Deno for their cloud function equivalent, which is cool if you love Deno.

I would say Supabase is more opinionated, we try to give more options. Neither is necessarily better, there are pros and cons that you can decide on.

Other than that, Appwrite does some things that I find special.

Appwrite is simple to self-host. Like really simple. Like a single line of Docker command simple:

docker run -it --rm \ --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \ --volume "$(pwd)"/appwrite:/usr/src/code/appwrite:rw \ --entrypoint="install" \ appwrite/appwrite:latest

This gives you the full Appwrite experience for local/dev environments and you only need a few more environment variables to be production-ready.

We try to make Appwrite agnostic to your tech stack. You can use or disable any of the services when self-hosting, saving resources on your precious servers. You can integrate with frontend, backend, or both, or just use a single service, like our function runtimes.

We support a ton of SDKs, and we're always adding more. Our vibrant community makes this possible.

We have a lot of languages supported for Appwrite Functions, not just Deno ;) We have lots of storage adaptors you can choose from, or local storage if you want to keep all your data. We will support MANY databases (you can contribute your own, too).

I hope that helps, it really is down to personal preference, developing on the platforms feels very different. Try both!

From the title "Show HN: Open-source Firebase Alternative? It's here (github.com/appwrite)" was expecting the entirety of Appwrite to be a new project shown here for the first time. Could the title be changed to reflect what's new? Perhaps the title of the GitHub Issue being linked: "Announcing Appwrite 0.14 with 11 Cloud Function Runtimes!"

If you like your experience to be decided for you, use Supabase, especially if you love interacting with a Postgres instance and Deno for your cloud functions.

We try to keep our stack agnostic, hence the 11 function executor, and ever growing list of SDKs. We also allow you to choose your storage adaptor for stuff like Linode, S3, DigitalOcean spaces, Wasabi, and more. We'll eventually give you the option to choose between many DB options, too.

We don't wanna replace your stack, we wanna play nicely with it. You can straight up disable all our services but one, and we're happy to let you enjoy your experience all the same :)