Last week a new database called SpacetimeDB released a controversial launch video that went viral.

Do you believe Postgres task queues can replace something as robust as Kafka?

What use-cases would you recommend to use it for?

No definitely not. Kafka is for LinkedIn scale. Postgres is for everyone else.

Quick anecdote. I remember a friend who joined Shopify relatively early. He took ALL their data from many different services (analytics, Kafka etc) and loaded into Postgres on his laptop so he could query it efficiently.

It's amazing how over-engineered some startups are.

haha thank you

I can tell you dozens of similar anecdotes too

Kafka is very difficult to manage and it's better to avoid early for sure

Awesome list! Was going to post the same lol

I've been ripping off Linear colors/fonts/layout for a few years, but didn't know it's such a trend.

Thank you!

Not sure if I got it right, but if you want to build a simple backend I'd go with Supabase/Firebase for auth and Airtable for data/API. As for admin functionality — Retool seems to be the most powerful app (but can require some coding).

Also check out Memberstack — it allows to hide pages under paywall/authorization.

Here's a broader list of tools that we use.

No-code tools:

• Notion — documents (both internal project docs and public docs)

• Super.so, Tilda, Webflow, yep.so — landing pages and websites (also want to try popsy.so)

• Tally — forms

• Airtable — visual DB and API

• Figma, Canva — designs, prototypes, images, pitches

• Splitbee, Hotjar, Amplitude — analytics

• Crisp.chat, Intercom — customer support & analytics

• Make (Integromat), Zapier — automations

• MailerLite, SendGrid — transactional emails and newsletter

• Memberstack — membership/payments

Tech/low-code tools:

• Svelte — the simplest frontend framework to build (if you non-tech go with more popular React)

• Supabase, Firebase — auth+DB for prototypes

• Retool, Internal, UIBakery — back-office, admin functionality

• Render, DigitalOcean apps, Vercel — simplest hosting

• Napkin — simplest lambdas (eg. for simple backends with secret keys)

• GitHub Codespaces — coding without local env

For adding a blog, you can try and use https://feather.so

This uses Notion as the CMS for your blog.

I saw that product about a year ago but never tried it.

Looks solid now, will try it out.

Thank you!

Are you sure you saw Feather 1 year ago? Maybe you saw an older version of Feather.

Feather is only 6 months old.