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A PostgreSQL proxy that keeps each user's data in their own region. Shards by a key you name, splits reads from writes, pools connections, and moves a key between regions while the application keeps reading and writing. No driver to install.

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GITHUB · launched Sep 27, 2026 · 37 upvotes (top 23%) · 0 views

Niche: database management systems and engines · 162 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -17% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Data infrastructure
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • async
  • backend
  • database
  • database-proxy
  • postgres
  • postgresql
  • +5 more

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Could you build this?

No Building a PostgreSQL wire-protocol proxy that handles transparent dynamic sharding, live cross-region key migration without downtime, and connection pooling requires deep distributed systems and database engine expertise.

What it would actually take: The architecture requires a custom proxy server in Rust or Go parsing the PostgreSQL frontend/backend protocol directly, an internal SQL query analyzer to extract sharding keys and distinguish reads from writes, and an Raft/etcd-backed coordination metadata store. The hardest part is zero-downtime shard migration, which demands two-phase locking/write dual-buffering or logical replication CDC while routing in-flight transactions. This necessitates deep expertise in distributed database internals, SQL parsing, and network protocols.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 84 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #23 of 85 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 311 days after the earliest competitor.

  • PgDog · ph · 2026-07-14 · 227 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • SQL-tap · hn · 2026-02-14 · 233 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • DSGuard · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • PgDog · hn · 2026-02-23 · 326 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • Client SQL · ph · 2026-09-21 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.40
  • Nexus DataHub · ph · 2026-10-05 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
  • PostgreSQL Migrator · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.38
  • LinkedQL · hn · 2025-12-08 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.38

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