Show HN: DBSnapper – Sanitized Database Snapshots for Faster Development

Show HN: DBSnapper – Sanitized Database Snapshots for Faster Development(dbsnapper.com)

3 points by joescharf 3 years ago | 1 comment

DBSnapper is a developer tool that simplifies creating, sanitizing, and loading snapshots of your databases (Postgres, MySQL) into your development environment.

DBSnapper consists of a lightweight CLI that can run standalone (free), or with the DBSnapper Cloud service for centralized configuration, storing snapshots on cloud storage providers (Cloudflare R2 and Amazon S3), and sharing with your team (soon).

Feedback is much appreciated, there’s still a lot to be built & not everything is perfect, but time to launch this thing, already!

joescharf 3 years ago |

Hi Everyone,

I’ve been building DBSnapper because I’ve found that a lot of startups lack an easy way to get realistic customer data for development and testing purposes. Manually modeling the database with brittle fixtures is the usual answer to this problem, but often fails to consider many important use-cases that real-world usage data would uncover.

Let me know what you think!