Hey, in 2020 I open sourced [StaticBackend](https://staticbackend.dev/) I started the project as closed source, and long story short I discovered Supabase when they got their first 30m in funding after 7-8 months of maintianing StaticBackend, I even talked with their founder etc. , I was mostly trying to also get a piece of the pie in terms of funding, but that never really worked.
So I got discoraged not being able to reach traction / growth that in June 2024 I archived the project.
At the start of January this yer decided to jump back into building a SaaS and decided to un-archived my BaaS to save time building the new SaaS, so I did and I feel very good since.
I'm completely free / liberated from the desire to get funding, I cannot care less about Supabase now and I'm just continuing building, what I consider, a very decent alternative with some different approaches. Just at the start, a full dev server that's very easy to install and does not requires any dependencies.
What is a BaaS, it's just a server API that handles the boring stuff that gets repeated over and over on all projects, authentication, file storage, database CRUD / querying, full-text search, sending email, running background job, server-side function, schedule tasks.
All of thise I was bored of always re-writing this in all the SaaS I've built since 2008, so that's mainly what is StaticBackend. But compared to Supabase, it's not only limited to PostgreSQL, it handles sqlite, MongoDB, and a full in-memory database used by the dev server which replicate the entire production API.
In any case, maybe it interests some people in here that build web application. It works great with LLM as well.
GitHub: https://github.com/staticbackendhq/core
Website: https://staticbackend.dev/
The user, dstpierre, discusses the re-release of their open-source BaaS project, StaticBackend, as an alternative to Supabase. Initially discouraged by lack of traction, they have resumed development with a focus on providing a versatile backend solution supporting multiple databases. The conversation includes feedback from another user, quantotius, who appreciates the project but mentions a preference for practical guides.
looks nice and clean. I don't know why people down vote projects like this.
I don't know if I will give a try, given that I'm not a go person. I was going to add that some practical guides would be nice, then I noticed there are some practical guides.
Any projects you built using this framework?
hey, you don't need to know Go at all, it's just the language in which it's built-in, the API, but there's a JS and Node client libraries. Yes I've created 3 SaaS with this along the years, 2 that never really took off, and the one I'm building at the moment.