[bruce343434]

How to get free postgres for small projects:

    sudo apt-get install postgres

AND you actually get sole control of all the data, all without the need for a credit card!

Seriously though, who is this for? Any backend hosting platform offers a database. It's just a standard at this point. For people hosting static gihub pages (and storing all the database connection credentials in frontend js?!), don't make me laugh. Or you've already got your own vm? Then literally just install postgres right there.

[toyg]

> who is this for?

It brings them, more or less, to feature-parity with Heroku. If you cared about the differentiators for Fly (which, at a glance, seem to be better support for global reach and Docker, and less fiddling with Postgres) but were kept away by their lack of database on the free tier, now you probably want to give it a spin.

If you don't care for Heroku-style deployments, because you're happy managing your own infra, then this is not for you.

[mrkurt]

This is for people who want to run a fullstack app and expand it to multiple regions.

"fly launch" on a Phoenix app, for example, gets your entire app + DB deployed in about 60s for free.