POpostbase·Dec 21, 2025Submission
1 points · Open discussionumrashrf
postbase
JavaScript2025–2025
umrashrf / postbase
postbase
Drop-in replacement for Firebase, production grade, open source, localhost first and self-hosted using Node.js, Express.js, BetterAuth and PostgreSQL (JSONB) - Firebase 💔 | Supabase 💔 | Postbase ❤️
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5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
21GitHub stars
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What it is
Drop-in replacement for Firebase, production grade, open source, localhost first and self-hosted using Node.js, Express.js, BetterAuth and PostgreSQL (JSONB) - Firebase 💔 | Supabase 💔 | Postbase ❤️
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Nov 3 | 2025-11-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-11-10 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Nov 10 | 2025-11-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-11-17 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 17 | 2025-11-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-11-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 24 | 2025-11-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 1 | 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-12-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 8 | 2025-12-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-12-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 15 | 2025-12-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-12-22 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesPostbase
Open source, drop-in replacement and self-hosted alternative for Firebase
Using Node.js, Express.js, BetterAuth and PostgreSQL (JSONB)
https://github.com/umrashrf/postbase
In Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)This exactly what was happening with me and I recently started a project called Postbase to setup my own cloud infrastructure. There is so much free OSS software out there which is 100x better than what Google, Amazon and other offer. github.com/umrashrf/postbase (this is in alpha and work in progress).
In I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollarsPostbase – self-hosted Firebase alternate – node express better-auth PostgreSQL
2 points · Open discussionPostbase – Self-Hosted Firebase Alternate – Node, Express, BetterAuth, Postgres
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