Netlify Database - Ship data-driven apps without breaking flow
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Netlify Database is a fully managed PostgreSQL database that integrates seamlessly with your Netlify projects. It provides automatic database branching for deploy previews, built-in migration support, and a best-in-class local development experience.
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Netlify
Hey Product Hunt community! 👋
Today, I'm stoked to share Netlify Database with you, a fully managed Postgres database, built directly into the platform.
Years ago, Deploy Previews made it safe to experiment with code. But the database layer never got that treatment. If you are developer, I'm sure you remember vividly the pain of a shared staging database that is always a little broken. Well, we decided to fix that.
Here is what's special about Netlify Database:
Automatic Branching: Every agent run or Git PR automatically gets its own database branch, seeded from your latest production data.
Zero Production Risk: Schema changes and test records are totally contained. Even our AI agent literally cannot modify production—it only writes migrations for your isolated preview branch. Production stays untouched until you hit publish.
Zero Extra Setup: Whether you are pushing code with Drizzle, or a designer vibe coding/prompting an app into existence, you get the exact same workflow and safety net.
Try it out in 2 minutes ⚡
Head over to Netlify (https://app.netlify.com/start) and try a prompt like:
The agent will spin up the schema, wire up the UI, and give you a working preview running on a real Postgres branch.
Drop your thoughts/questions below, and let us know what you plan to build.
We'd love your feedback! 💬
Unslack
@thisiskp_ "Even our AI agent literally cannot modify production"
Music to the ears of anyone who's had their database emptied by an agent by accident.
2 minutes to try it out? I'll take you up on that offer!
Database branching for deploy previews is one of those features that sounds incremental but completely changes how teams ship. When I was CTO scaling from 15 to 120 engineers, the shared staging database was our single biggest source of deployment friction. Engineers would step on each other's migrations, QA would test against stale data, and nobody trusted the staging environment enough to actually catch bugs before production. We burned weeks every quarter just on database-related deploy issues. The fact that this is built directly into the Netlify workflow means teams get isolated database state per PR without having to duct-tape together Docker containers and seed scripts. That's the kind of infrastructure that lets you move from weekly releases to continuous deployment without the team size to staff a dedicated platform team.
Netlify
@avrisimon thank you so much for the kind words. Great to hear the core problem we’re tackling here resonates with you closely.
The branched database per PR is the feature staging environments should have had years ago. The amount of "don't touch the staging DB it's broken again" Slack messages this kills is reason enough. Trying the mythical creatures prompt right now.
Netlify
@kunal_s1 that Slack message is universal haha. Thanks for trying this out. Let us know how your builds go!
Unslack
In a world awash of new vibe coding platforms every day, Netlify continue to build on a secure and strong foundation of infrastructure with new releases that always feel production ready for companies to scale with.
Netlify Databases is a much welcome addition to their platform which instantly extends the capabilities of their already solid app building agents.
Already have multiple ideas to get started building. Thank you Netlify team for another brilliant launch! 🚀
Netlify
@ashamplifies We wouldn't be Netlify with you people like you in our community Ash 🤝
Netlify
@ashamplifies thanks for the warm compliments. "build on a secure and strong foundation of infrastructure with new releases that always feel production ready" -> that is exactly how we view product development internally. Solid infra that can scale from side projects to world class brands.
Neon
Excited to see this go live! Feature branches are an incredibly productivity boost. We see it across all our customer!
Netlify
@nikita_shamgunov Thanks for ALL the support Nikita! Great things on the horizon
Netlify
YES! Fun fact, Netlify has been running several workloads in production on top of Netlify Database for weeks with zero overhead. It's so good!
Netlify
Really exciting moment for the team 🙌
The goal was simple: make databases feel as safe and easy to experiment with as code.
Looking forward to seeing what the Product Hunt community thinks!
Netlify
Couldn't be more excited about this! From my earliest days building on the web, the jump between building something and connecting it with a database was far from easy - especially for small, simple projects. So much work-work just to get something basic live. Netlify Database changes this... every version of every project gets their own database, so you can iterate quickly without risking any silly changes. one of my absolute favourite @Netlify launches!
It's exciting to see this live! For newer builders database is admittedly the scary part of a project. Now with a safe sandbox to build, test and ship it's an entirely different experience. Plus the fact that there's no rewiring required is awesome AND no more fear of breaking production. Hats off to our product team for making this feel so seamless! 🚀"
CatDoes
Great launch @thisiskp_ and @Netlify! 🚀
Also curious: what’s the disaster recovery story if something goes wrong in production?
Netlify
@mahdi_nouri hey man! How are you? Thanks for the Q.
Netlify Database's disaster recovery approach is built around reducing blast radius and fast recovery: most changes happen in isolated database branches (deploy previews / agent runs), not directly on production.
Before publishing a production deploy, we take a snapshot of the production database so you have a restore point if something goes wrong (retention varies by plan).
@mahdi_nouri @thisiskp_
There are also classic scheduled backups taken automatically, and whatever the kind of backup - if you restore it - we keep a branch with the pre-restore production branch contents.
That means you can:
Access the contents of that branch to figure out the most-recent data that wasn't in the backup.
If need be, as a final failsafe, our support can revert your restore by reverting to that branch.
There are always a number of ways things can go wrong, especially when merging changes to production having un-intended consequences. We're still working on more tweaks to minimize things going wrong, and providing easier means to recover from sticky situations.