Neon

Neon is a serverless Postgres service with a generous free tier.

• Serverless architecture
• Branching for development/staging
• Automatic scaling
• Free tier with 500MB storage

Supabase

Supabase provides Postgres databases with additional features like authentication and storage.

• Full Postgres support
• Additional services (auth, storage, etc.)
• Free tier with 500MB storage and 5GB data transfer
• Simple dashboard

Prisma Postgres

Prisma Postgres is a managed Postgres service with a generous free tier.

• Serverless architecture
• Automatic scaling
• Free tier with 1 GB storage

Railway

Railway offers simple Postgres provisioning with automatic deployments.

• Easy setup
• Integrated with deployments
• Reasonable pricing
• Good developer experience

Docker

You can run Postgres in a Docker container:

docker run --name dirstarter-postgres -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres -p 5432:5432 -d postgres

Then use this connection string:

DATABASE_URL="postgres://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/postgres"

Local Installation

Install Postgres directly on your machine:

1. Download from postgres.org or using Homebrew
2. Install and set up a password
3. Create a database

Then use this connection string:

DATABASE_URL="postgres://postgres:yourpassword@localhost:5432/dirstarter"