A free data store for rapid prototyping & more
I love developing small software products; I don't always love thinking about data storage for those products. I often want to persist simple data from a deployed application, but don't need a full-fledged database and don't want to pay for a PaaS or manage infra.
I collaborated with a friend to create a free, hosted key-value store that facilitates reading/writing data via simple requests, without requiring you create an account or integrate with an SDK. I'm going to use it for rapidly developing my own small SaaS products in 2023.
There's literally only two types of requests:
🟥 POST request to an arbitrary key to store or update data
🟩 GET request to an arbitrary key to read its value
It's currently backed by AWS ElastiCache, which means it's really fast, but the oldest keys get evicted as it fills up. This has been fine for our use cases up until this point, but we might consider backing it with a real DBMS at some point in the future.
There's currently no path to monetization or anything like that, but we felt like it could be useful to other indie hackers.
If you end up playing with it or using it for a project of your own, we'd love to hear about it :)
