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The data platform for modern web applications

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The data platform for modern web applications

Discover how easy data can be - through code snippets and a strongly typed SDK, branching with zero downtime migrations, a powerful search engine and fast analytics.
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Developer-centric approach to quickly building internal UIs
Love the idea of "Database Experience" — or a new specialization within the Developer Experience world...! And focusing on that as your differentiator in this moment — with the growing importance of data strategy in organizations tasks offers a big lift.

Hi everyone! The idea behind Xata (coming from eXtended data) came unexpectedly for me as well. At the beginning of the pandemic, together with a few friends we decided to start a non-profit organisation (https://tupu.io) and build a mentorship platform for women, people of color, and LGBT in tech. While building the platform, we struggled to find the database that can offer us:

- a relational database to store the mentors and the mentees - a visual way to view and change the data - a powerful search experience to find the best mentor - a git-like workflow that allows us to test the database changes before deploying them in production - a fully managed service, so we don’t have to do any DevOps ourselves. - a good fit for serverless applications

All these requirements might sound familiar to you. We didn’t want to spend our time building a data platform ourselves or manage and monitor multiple services. We wanted to spend the little time that we had to build more features in the mentorship app to help more people. In the end, we decided to build our mentorship platform on top of Airtable with a lot of temporary hacks in order to fill the missing functionality.

What should an entrepreneur do in this situation? She starts a company to build a serverless data platform that radically simplifies the way developers work with data. 😀

💻 Watch a 10 minute walkthrough of Xata: https://youtu.be/-KNRS2fIWdA

@monicasarbu I had the chance to see a demo months ago, and from the point of view of developers, user experience is awesome. Congrats!
Very interesting. So I can build a database without actually a DB. And on top of that, can I use SQL operations as well? @monicasarbu @tudor_g

Hi @gauravgoyal_gg !

Thanks for the comment. Yes, you get a real database that you access via the API, see https://xata.io/docs/api-guide/get

We have an ORM-like client in TypeScript. It doesn't support actual SQL right now, but you can perform most of the same operations via the API and clients.

@tudor_g Got it. This can be very useful for non-production databases that one would want to create. I see a few use cases for us.
Great to here! Eventually, we want people to use it for production as well, but smaller use cases are a great start :)

Thanks, @chrismessina for hunting us!

I am very excited to share our work with ProductHunt! 🎉🎉🎉

We started over a year ago with the core idea of building a database product that is as intuitive to use as Airtable, yet powerful like PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch. We wanted such a thing to exist when we kept using Airtable as a DB for Jamstack sites and when we kept recommending Airtable as the main database for some use cases.

We feel incredibly lucky to have had the chance to put together a pretty fantastic team and to work on this opportunity.

As we've developed Xata, we've always had in mind people like you, the builders, the ones that like to get stuff done. And we hope we've made a product that you'll enjoy using!

If there are any questions regarding the technical implementation, I'm happy to answer. We like being transparent and we have written a pretty long page about how Xata works under the hood: https://xata.io/docs/intro/how-i...

We are just beginning and we'd love your feedback, good and bad. We plan to iterate quickly and enable you to build things that you couldn't build before!


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