Building pgflow full-time - a Postgres-native workflow engine purpose-built for Supabase.
For the last several months, I've been focused on one thing: turning Supabase primitives - Queues and Edge Functions - into a declarative orchestration layer built entirely on Supabase primitives. pgflow lets you build reliable, multi-step, parallel logic using a type-safe TypeScript DSL, all without introducing new infrastructure.
- 18 years building production-grade web systems (Ruby on Rails, APIs, databases)
- Switched to Supabase + TypeScript 2 years ago to explore simpler, Postgres-first architectures
- Obsessed with using databases as durable, expressive business logic engines
- 🚀 pgflow: a Postgres-native workflow engine featuring:
- ACID-compliant SQL execution engine built on top of PGMQ
- Serverless Edge Worker for handling task execution, retries, and concurrency
- Type-safe DSL in TypeScript for defining workflows
- CLI for managing flow definitions and migrations
- Realtime client library (WIP) for streaming execution state to the frontend
- High-quality documentation and exceptional developer experience
I'm open to working with:
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Teams building on Supabase who want:
- Early access to pgflow
- Help implementing non-trivial workflows
- Direct input into the roadmap via tight feedback loops
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Developer tools companies focused on improving developer experience:
- Building intuitive, powerful developer tools
- Creating systems that prioritize great UX for engineers while being simple, flexible, and robust
- Delivering elegant solutions to complex problems
- Developer experience and tooling - creating systems developers love to use
- High-level system design and orchestration patterns
- Functional programming (esp. Clojure)
- Using relational databases as execution environments
- Technical writing and documentation - crafting clear, comprehensive guides
Open to conversations about developer experience and tooling.
📬 Contact: hello@pgflow.dev