Launch Week 1

Fastgen Launch Week Day 5

December 14, 2023
Mike Mahlkow
CEO & Co-Founder of Fastgen

Overview

Storing, maintaining, and manipulating data is at the heart of many applications. While Fastgen enables you to connect external databases like Supabase, we wanted to give our own hosted Postgres database a bit more love in case you prefer having everything you need for your backend in one place. 

So, what have we added to the Fastgen database? 

Additional database types

We now natively support most of the data types Postgres supports. Most importantly, you can store JSON directly in the DB.

Foreign keys

Many people have asked for this, you can finally connect multiple tables with each other through foreign keys. This will enable you to build more complex applications and create your data structure in the most efficient way. 

UI updates

We made it easier for you to edit large data sets in the database and shipped some UI improvements for the database tables. 

While we are talking about databases. Keep your eye out for native integrations with external databases like Supabase and Neon that are on the roadmap. 

This marks the final day of our first Fastgen launch week. We hope you enjoyed it.

Mike Mahlkow

CEO & Co-Founder of Fastgen

Mike Mahlkow is the co-founder and CEO of Fastgen, a low-code backend builder. He is a serial tech entrepreneur who has taken two of his companies through Y Combinator and raised money from some of the best investors in the world. Before starting his founder journey, he learned how successful tech companies are run in his roles at Stripe and Uber. His areas of expertise are startups, shipping product fast, and the low-code industry. In addition to his role at Fastgen, he is an angel investor and podcast host. He has been quoted in publications including TechCrunch, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Forbes, and Quartz.