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Minimal Core
One binary. Your DB becomes an API. No code generated.
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One binary. Your DB becomes an API. No code generated.
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Drop one binary on the database you already have. Every table is a REST API and an MCP tool. Permissioned. Audited. Nothing generated, nothing scaffolded, no AI quietly writing code behind your back. Less code. More done.
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Promoted
Hi Product Hunt!
We've all become merchants of complexity. We just outsourced the manufacturing to a model.
Prompt, generate, handler. Prompt, generate, tests. Prompt, generate, tools. Per table, per service, per company. It's never been easier to produce code and never been harder to say what any of it is for. We industrialized the one thing software was supposed to eliminate: busywork.
We wanted no part of it.
Minimal Core: one binary. Drop it on the database you already have. Every table is a REST API and an MCP tool. Permissioned. Audited. Nothing generated, nothing scaffolded, nothing "quietly" written for you. No code, because the right amount of code for this layer is none.
Your agent stops writing the API and starts asking for it. The 90% of tokens you burned on CRUD plumbing go back in your pocket. The weeks your team spent babysitting it go back on the calendar.
People told us for years we were wasting our time. "It's the AI era, just prompt it." Exactly. When code is free, restraint is the only thing worth paying for.
Beta's open. 60 days, 3M requests, no card, no demo call, no "quick sync." Setup is one prompt pasted into Claude Code or whatever you use. Five commands if you'd rather do it by hand: github.com/littlebitlabs/minimal-setup
Getting started
Get a free licence. Sign in with Google or GitHub. It’s 60 days, 3,000,000 requests, every feature, no card: https://license.littlebitlabs.com
The six steps, with screenshots: https://littlebitlabs.com/products/minimal-core#trial
Set it up with one prompt. Paste it into Claude Code or your favourite AI client, and it’s running in about 5 minutes:
https://lnkd.in/gGPFzKtm [Guides and scripts to run Minimal, Relay and Postgres with Docker Compose, plus an MCP guide and test script],
https://lnkd.in/grXnqc2Z [Minimal with IDP, an API gateway, TLS, sample data and a sample app, from one Docker Compose file. Guides and AI-agent setup skills]
Teach your agent to use it. One page your agent can read: https://littlebitlabs.com/skills/minimal-core/SKILL.md
Go deeper with the Book of Minimal, in three volumes: https://littlebitlabs.com/docs/book-of-minimal
Vol. I, Essential Minimal: from your first table to your first API call
Vol. II, Advanced Minimal: Custom APIs, permissions and more
Vol. III, Identity and the Gateway: putting real users in front of it
Everything in one place: https://littlebitlabs.com/products/minimal-core
We’d love your hardest questions, about the product, the model or the idea.