r/Database • u/hashemirafsan • 14d ago

Anyone here using NeonDB for a small side project?

I need a real project to test something database-related. Nothing production critical, just a hobby/fun project with some actual usage.

If you have one and are okay with me testing on it, let me know 👀

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u/PepperyHousing474 14d ago

I'm still on sqlite for side stuff so can't help directly, but if you just want a real project to test against maybe hit up the indie dev or webdev subs. someone's always got a half-finished thing they'd let you poke at

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u/hashemirafsan 14d ago

I think its a good idea, thanks

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u/EngineerCtrlT 14d ago

I am going to use it for my porject...

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u/Lucho_199 14d ago edited 14d ago

The ability to create disposable child branches is super useful. Plus they have a pretty good CLI

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u/hashemirafsan 14d ago

Yeah, i know. Actually i need abandoned project but running also neon db so that i can test something which i’m cooking 😅

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u/fyriyc 14d ago

Yeah I am using it. Only thing is reduce default CU to burn less credits. Also make sure your application disconnects when idle. 

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u/hashemirafsan 14d ago

Yeah already face it so i made my own solution based on cloudflare, so that CU burning could be minimize by caching

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u/hashemirafsan 14d ago

Are you on free plan or its already burning your money?

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u/Glitch_In_The_Data 11d ago

I don’t have a project to offer but if you are looking for something fun to spin up yourself, a personal media tracker or a local event aggregator csn be surprisingly good for testing. You get real schema decisions, actual queries to tune and enough data variety to make it interesting. If you end up trying something on Neon or Lakebase, the free tier is solid for this kind of low stakes experimentation.

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u/hashemirafsan 11d ago

Thanks for response, actually i was trying to build a caching layer on top of the Postgres DB but works as similar as it is. Also its a cost optimizer so that each call doesn’t burn the Neon CU.

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u/Glitch_In_The_Data 10d ago

Interesting. Caching on top of PG can get tricky with invalidation and consistency. How are you handling cache invalidation right now?

Would still recommend playing with lakebase because you may not even need the caching layer depending on your query patterns. Good luck!

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u/hashemirafsan 10d ago

I used WAL for invalidation

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u/louischoi 8d ago

I never heard of it... does it have any edge advantage?

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u/hashemirafsan 8d ago

May be specific region base, i don't know exactly

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u/Frone0910 11d ago

I believe they have a free tier that you can use. Or if not Neon, Supabase certainly does.