Cloudflarebase
open-source Firebase alternative on Cloudflare
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HN · launched Jul 28, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: backend development platforms and services · 94 launches, 6 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
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- Horizontal
- Data infrastructure
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial While an edge wrapper over Cloudflare primitives can be assembled quickly, building a reliable BaaS alternative to Firebase requires intricate distributed systems engineering across D1, KV, R2, and Durable Objects.
What it would actually take: Requires combining Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects for WebSocket-based real-time synchronization, D1 (SQLite) or Hyperdrive for relational persistence, and R2 for storage. The hardest part is implementing distributed real-time pub/sub synchronization and Firebase-compatible security rules evaluation at edge latencies.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 813 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #739 of 814 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 271 days after the earliest competitor.
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