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Aruma

Clean-room, self-hosted backend for Firebase SDKs

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Aruma is an open-source (Apache 2.0) backend that works with the official Firebase SDKs. Run it on your own server: one Go binary + PostgreSQL with a built-in dashboard. It serves Auth, Realtime Database, Cloud Storage, Security Rules and a Firestore-compatible database. For Auth, RTDB and Firestore you change the config file, not your app code. Storage on iOS/Flutter needs a small helper. Pre-1.0 (v0.4.0). Try it with docker compose or a binary from Releases.

PH · launched Oct 30, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 0 views

Niche: backend development platforms and services · 94 launches, 6 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Data infrastructure
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • API
  • Open Source
  • GitHub

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Could you build this?

Partial A basic auth and key-value backend is vibe-codeable, but a faithful drop-in for the Firebase SDKs requires matching their wire protocols, Firestore's query semantics, and a Security Rules engine. Those compatibility details are the hard part.

What it would actually take: The stack would be a Go server implementing Firebase's HTTP/WebChannel/gRPC protocols, a PostgreSQL-backed document store with Firestore query semantics, and a parser and evaluator for Security Rules. Compatibility testing against the official SDKs is essential. Deep knowledge of database internals and the Firebase wire formats is needed to get the edge cases right.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 141 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #87 of 142 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 365 days after the earliest competitor.

  • FirebaseDash · ph · 2026-10-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • Postbase · hn · 2026-06-01 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • The complete backend for your app · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • Firepanel · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • BuildBase App · ph · 2026-09-25 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • hidane · ph · 2026-10-13 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • Nomad DB · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
  • Cloudflarebase · hn · 2026-07-28 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42

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