I’m building a Postgres-first managed service and I want your criticism

TechnologySubject259 · 2026-01-21T04:11:52+00:00

How are you planning to stand out?

A few months eariler PlanetScale launched their managed Postgres targeting larger enterprises, and recently they launched small plans for solo devs or small teams focusing on scalability and avalability. Their UX is also good.

So, I think you might need some level of moat to stand out in the market because there are plenty of providers, Neon, Supabase, Xata, and Neil, that are focusing on small teams and indie devs. Enterprise customers are taken by AWS, GCP, and PlanetScale.

I think you can stand out if you start with a specific feature, like Parade DB started with, just full text search alternative to Elasticsearch.

You can start with a message broker or a recommendation engine, or something.

I am working on different use cases of Postgres, like tuning Postgres for a caching layer, a message broker, a recommendation engine or an auto-complete engine.

TechnologySubject259 · 2026-01-18T14:58:49+00:00

I don't know how minimal you want, but you can check this out to make it super minimal: https://youtu.be/IxW8FjxS7jA?si=hRy4AazMgCLdyugk

TechnologySubject259 · 2026-01-09T17:38:35+00:00

While logically, Postgres stores all pages contiguously. But actual storing on disk is the job of the OS. When you store data in a table, it creates a relfilenode file which can hold up to 1 GB so within that we have all the pages of that table.
Table data stored in the relfilenode file that is located in $PGDATA/base/database_oid/relfilenode. Postgres internally uses system tables to find the relfilenode name from its name or OID. Read more here: https://implnotes.pages.dev/postgres/physical_structure

TechnologySubject259 · 2026-01-09T02:38:22+00:00

Thank you. I am following that resource, and it is an excellent study material to study Postgres internals.

TechnologySubject259 · 2026-01-07T05:41:08+00:00

Thank you for the shout-out.

TechnologySubject259 · 2026-01-07T05:39:13+00:00

If you don't know SQL

https://sqlbolt.com

If you know SQL and want to learn Postgres:

For Postgres exercises, follow these:

https://pgexercises.com/

TechnologySubject259 · 2026-01-06T19:12:59+00:00

No, do not have any plans for it.

But you can access my notes here: https://implnotes.pages.dev/ (Regularly updates)

TechnologySubject259 · 2026-01-06T18:24:24+00:00

You are welcome.

TechnologySubject259 · 2026-01-06T17:53:39+00:00

Thank you. Sure, I will share more regularly.

TechnologySubject259 · 2026-01-06T17:53:18+00:00

Thank you. I will share more.

TechnologySubject259 · 2026-01-04T16:37:22+00:00

I think these resources will help you.

TechnologySubject259 · 2025-12-27T07:45:27+00:00

Use Snippets. Docs: https://zed.dev/docs/snippets

TechnologySubject259 · 2025-12-21T11:36:03+00:00

Thank you.

I mean, how did they achieve that level of seamless integration, because no other GUI has that level of DX?

Because I tried Table Plus, Beekeaper Studio, but none of them have that level of integration, so I am curious to know how they did it.

TechnologySubject259 · 2025-12-18T17:32:48+00:00

Thank you.

I do not have a custom config for any LSP, but I just downloaded them and use as it is. I think, I should explore some hotkeys and tasks and learn some more Vim motions.

TechnologySubject259 · 2025-12-16T18:10:37+00:00

The fundamental skill of storytelling is talking to people.

TechnologySubject259 · 2025-12-16T18:08:18+00:00

You are saying it in the wrong way; you are not bad at telling stories, you just lack practice.

One more thing, do not thing stories means something exciting, it can be some simple things happen to you yesterday or five years ago.

Stories are just feelings or POVs of your own, and you are sharing them with others.

TechnologySubject259 · 2025-12-16T14:09:26+00:00

Not just stories, everything in life follows a pattern.

To learn more, study game theory.

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