Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Stian, a solo dev from Norway. I build side projects in my evenings, and almost every single one of them needed a Postgres database. For years I just self-hosted on AWS Lightsail. Install Postgres, configure PgBouncer, set up TLS, write backup scripts, monitor disk… then do it all again for the next project. One server even got hit with a crypto-mining script, which led to a fun late-night migration. Postgres had become its own side project on top of every actual side project. Managed options existed, but the math kept stinging. $25/mo minimums, surprise usage bills, or a full backend platform when all I wanted was a database. So I built DBHost: managed Postgres with PgBouncer pooling on every database, 30-day backups, a REST API + CLI, and flat pricing: $0 / $5 / $15. No usage meters, no surprise bills. The biggest decision during the build was splitting the control plane (Next.js on Vercel) from the data plane (Postgres on Lightsail). A dashboard outage never touches your production DB. It's a great fit for small SaaS apps, internal tools, staging environments, and agencies juggling many app databases. It's NOT a fit if you need read replicas, PITR, or multi-region failover today; I'm honest about that on the site. Genuinely built this for myself first. Would love your feedback, especially on the DX 🙏

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Postgres without the side project.

Postgres without the side project.

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