Userbase

Userbase is like a database, but purpose-built for web app user data. It's accessible directly from the browser through a very simple JavaScript SDK.

With Userbase you can durably store, update, delete, and query user data. But that's where the similarities with traditional databases end.

Zero management

Unlike a real database, all Userbase queries run in the browser, with the server-side acting as a dumb data store. There's no database to manage and worry about.

Built-in user management

Unlike a real database, Userbase takes care of your user accounts. It comes with built-in APIs for user signups, logins, and access control.

End-to-end encrypted

Unlike a real database, Userbase won't show you what your users store in your web app.

Wait, what!? — Yes, that's a feature — maybe the most important feature. Userbase spares you from the liability of handling user data by encrypting everything in the browser, using keys that always stay with the user.

If you're building a web app, you will likely need a database. Userbase can substitute your database...

• If you want to build a web app without writing any backend code.
• If you never want to see your users' data.
• If you're tired of dealing with databases.
• If you want to radically simplify your GDPR compliance.
• And if you want to keep things really simple.

Userbase will be available around mid-December 2019.

Open source

Userbase is being developed in the open, and is 100% open-source, MIT licensed. You can modify and extend the backend to your liking, and run it yourself in your AWS account, always under your control.

As a service

Or for just $39/month you can go fully serverless, backendless, databaseless, and AWSless!

• Unlimited web apps.
• Unlimited users.
• 1 GB storage included.
• Unlimited extra storage at $1/month per GB.
• All features included.

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This product is the work of Daniel Vassallo and Justin Berman. We're a small independent business, structured to be lean, profitable, and sustainable. We're here for the long haul.

If you have any questions, or there's anything we can do to help you with your web app, please get in touch. Thank you!