attainable
The fastest and easiest way to design and deploy APIs
Details
- External ID
- 46406946
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- attainable
- Website domain
- attainable.dev
- Launched
- Dec. 28, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4217557251908397
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
This began as a passion project and an opportunity to learn new tech.I've always experienced frustration developing APIs, especially the RESTful CRUD style of data APIs. It always felt like I was repeating the same patterns over and over again, and that was tedium I didn't want. A little over a year ago, I wanted to learn more about Go, Firecracker microVM, and Svelte and thought "Could I build an API framework that was just a simple description of resources? What would that look like?"That lead me to https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/, which landed me on https://fly.io, then https://rqlite.io, and the further I got into it, the more I really liked what I had. It's been over a year of learning and trying out all forms of tooling, CLIs, LSPs, and finally I landed on this.So I decided to try my hand at making this a product. I'd really enjoy feedback about it and whether it's something folks would use. Here's hoping others feel the way I do about APIs and the developer experience building them!
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie hacker passion projects
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- design and deploy apis quickly
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Generating CRUD schemas and documentation from a prompt is easy, but securely provisioning, hosting, sandboxing, and routing multi-tenant live databases and serverless endpoints in seconds requires sophisticated cloud infrastructure.
What it would actually take: Requires an orchestration backend (e.g., Kubernetes, Fly.io Machines, or AWS Firecracker microVMs) capable of on-demand schema generation, provisioning ephemeral or multi-tenant database instances (Postgres/SQLite), setting up reverse proxies with API key validation and rate limiting, and generating OpenAPI documentation in real time.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Magic/abstraction may limit customization for complex use cases, Risk of hitting a wall at 80% - easy setup but insufficient for full use-case coverage
Feature requests: Migration ability for resources - automatically update underlying database on changes, Better documentation/examples to clarify best use cases
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 44 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #28 of 45 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 57 days after the earliest competitor.
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- I built a self-hosted Fly.io engine using Go and Firecracker · hn · 2026-03-31 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- DevForge · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Hyper · hn · 2026-07-09 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- MicroVibe · hn · 2026-02-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- MicroState · hn · 2026-01-21 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- G# –> a new dotnet language like Go/Swift/Kotlin with C# interop · hn · 2026-06-15 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.34
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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