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Tealbase.
A rebellion against the "Success Disaster." We give developers the realtime magic of Firebase with the raw power and correctness of Postgres.
The Breaking Point
It was 3 AM on a Sunday. Our app had just hit #1 on Product Hunt. Champagne was popped. Then the alerts started.
We weren't fighting traffic; we were fighting our own infrastructure. The NoSQL database, once our best friend for rapid prototyping, had become a prison. We couldn't query our own data. We couldn't ensure consistency. We were bleeding money on opaque read/write costs.
I realized then that the "Modern Data Stack" was a lie. It forced a binary choice: move fast and break later, or move slow and survive.
"Postgres is all you need."
A Cathedral, Not a Container
We founded Tealbase to end the fundamental compromise developers are forced to make every single day: the choice between speed and power.
Tealbase is the open-source backend for developers who refuse to choose. We provide the instant, Firebase-like developer experience—Authentication, auto-generated APIs, and Realtime subscriptions—built directly on a true PostgreSQL foundation.
This means you ship your product in a weekend, with the absolute confidence that you have the full, unconstrained power of a relational database as you scale to millions.
Postgres at the Core
Full SQL capabilities. No NoSQL compromises. ACID compliance out of the box.
Realtime Subscriptions
Listen to any SQL query. If the data changes, the client updates instantly.
Row Level Security
Granular access control policies defined directly on your tables.
Instant APIs
Auto-generated REST and GraphQL endpoints from your schema.
Technical Architecture
Tealbase is written in Go for high-throughput concurrency. It connects to PostgreSQL and uses logical replication slots (WAL) to listen for changes, broadcasting them via WebSockets to subscribed clients.
It bridges the gap between the developer experience of 2025 and the reliability of 1995.
Impact
Tealbase is currently running in production for 3 indie projects. It has reduced backend boilerplate by 90%, allowing us to handle 10k concurrent connections on a standard 5 USD DigitalOcean droplet.