Hasura
Ranked 5 of 6 backend services by recommenders
Developers praise Hasura's pleasant developer experience and early value. Critics say the newer DDN direction broke from the original product.
Developers praise Hasura's pleasant developer experience and early value. Critics say the newer DDN direction broke from the original product.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 88%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Shift to DDN breaks original product
“Unfortunately Hasura has shifted entirely into this VC-induced DDN thing that seems to be a hard break from the original product”
Comment from 14 Dec 2025 in “GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over” Thin client-side support
“Hasura is very cool, but on the client side, there's not much going on”
Comment from 14 Dec 2025 in “GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over” REST or RPC seem easier
“it still just seemed easier to use RPC or REST”
Comment from 14 Dec 2025 in “GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over” Trouble with testing and ergonomics
“had trouble with testing and ergonomics”
Comment from 29 Aug 2026 in “Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript”
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PocketBase | 67 | 12 | 85% | 9 | — | Approved |
| InstantDB | 23 | 10 | 70% | 6 | — | Approved |
| PostgREST | 12 | 3 | 80% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Sheet Ninja | 11 | 12 | 48% | 3 | — | — |
| HasuraThis page | 7 | 1 | 88% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
7 of the 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“had trouble with testing and ergonomics”
“It really can be the best of multiple worlds, especially in the beginning”
“everything about them has screamed integrity”
“probably the most pleasant dev experience I had in past 10 years”
“Unfortunately Hasura has shifted entirely into this VC-induced DDN thing that seems to be a hard break from the original product”
“Hasura is very cool, but on the client side, there's not much going on”
“it still just seemed easier to use RPC or REST”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.