Use case · Side projects
Want to ship tonight, not wire up five vendors?
PrimDB gives a side project a deploy, a database, auth and storage on one free tier. The evening goes on the idea instead of on account signups and glue code.
The problem
The side-project setup grind
The idea takes an hour. The plumbing takes the whole weekend.
Five signups, five dashboards and five free tiers with five different limits, all before the first feature.
Connection strings and secrets copied by hand between a host and a database that barely know each other.
A surprise bill weeks later, because a free tier quietly expired.
What PrimDB does
What PrimDB gives a side project
One place to deploy, store data and sign users in, on a free tier that stays free.
One free tier for everything
Deploy, Postgres, Redis, search, storage and auth on a single free plan, instead of five separate ones to track.
Push and it is live
Connect a repo and get a live URL. Credentials for your database are wired into the app for you.
Auth without a vendor
Email/password, magic link and passkeys ship with the platform. A hobby app gets real login in minutes.
No surprise bill
The free tier is what you actually get today, and billing is gate-bypassed in early access. Nothing sneaks up on you.
Why it fits
Why PrimDB fits side projects
Fewer moving parts. The evening goes on building instead of reconciling dashboards.
When the project grows up, usage-based tiers are already there. No re-platforming.
You can even ask an agent to deploy it for you over MCP.
Honest note. The free tier is capped (a few projects, build minutes and feedback comments) and PrimDB runs in a single EU region. That suits a side project. It does not suit a global production launch.
FAQ
Questions, answered
- Is PrimDB actually free to start?
- Yes. There is a real free tier with a few projects plus build minutes and feedback comments, and no credit card. Billing is gate-bypassed in early access, so nothing surprising lands on a card.
- What happens when my side project grows?
- Usage-based tiers add more projects, build minutes, custom domains and support. You scale on the same platform instead of re-architecting.
Ship the thing you keep meaning to build.
Deploy, data, and auth on one free tier. Actually free to start, no credit card.