Neon
How vibe coders and indie builders use Neon: 88 projects built with it and 2 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
88
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
0.3%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
too few to tell
Add-ons built for it
2
Share of stated stacks, per week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- Next.js 51
- Vercel 43
- PostgreSQL 37
- React 20
- Stripe 15
- Tailwind CSS 14
- Clerk 13
- Claude Code 13
What's built with it
Latest projects built with Neon
- HistoryView — Displays multiple people, events and movements as colored parallel tracks on one shared horizontal timeline, with user-built timelines created from pasted AI research output.“Wikipedia timelines are one list at a time. I built one where several run side by side.”
- Bracketeer — Runs knockout tournament brackets for game nights, with random draws, automatic winner advancement, and live guest viewing via QR code.“I built a knockout tournament web app for game nights”
- Delulu — Scores how optimistic a personal goal's plan is by calculating the concrete numbers it requires.“I built a site that tells you how delusional your goal is, with a receipt of the actual math (no signup, no subscription)”
- Folio Novel — Provides a browser-based chapter writing app that syncs drafts across devices and exports work as PDF.“Silver Week Novel Writing Project”
- PriceRunJA — Scrapes supermarket websites weekly and lets users compare grocery prices side by side across stores.“I built a grocery price comparison site for Jamaica — comparing prices across 5 supermarkets with automated scraping”
- Storewake — Gives AI assistants access to an iOS app's App Store rankings, metadata, revenue, subscriptions and Apple Ads data through an MCP server.“Storewake - Connect your AI assistant to your app's rankings, revenue and Apple Ads data”
- messagetoai — Lets anyone post one public, anonymous letter addressed to AI, published as an open dataset and feed for future crawlers.“I built a message board where people write letters to AI — messagetoai.com”
- Neon Books Search — Searches and filters a 2M-book catalog live against Postgres with no caching.“Rebuilt an old 2M-book search demo to be FAST without CACHING!”
- Figo — Monitors competitors' public ads, new pages, search rankings, and social posts and sends a weekly briefing summarizing changes.“I built Figo to turn competitor research into a weekly briefing”
- I'm auctioning off the days of… — Auctions the days of the poster's work week to fund a month of building their own product.“I'm auctioning off the days of my week to fund a month of building”
- RiftCompare — Compares prices for League of Legends TCG cards across sellers, using a paid subscription.“My first 10 customers!!”
- StackMemo — Aggregates costs, revenue and KPIs for multiple side projects by syncing data from provider APIs into one dashboard.“StackMemo: a dashboard that tracks the costs, revenue and KPIs of all your side projects by syncing from provider APIs”
- Make Good Moves — Presents chess positions without revealing their theme, has the user pick a move, then compares it against other candidate moves using engine analysis.“I built a chess trainer that doesn't tell you what kind of move you're looking for.”
- Starters SaaS Kit — Generates a downloadable zip of a starter project containing only the framework, database, ORM, auth, billing, and email choices the user picked, pre-wired together.“I got tired of deleting half of every starter kit, so I built one that generates only the stack you picked”
- CommentTracker — Imports a YouTube comment history from Google Takeout and shows how each comment's likes and replies perform over time.“My YouTube comments were getting likes and I had no clue, so I made CommentTracker”
Latest add-ons built for Neon
- DBLifeboat — Ships nightly Postgres dumps to the user's own S3 or R2 bucket and restore-tests each backup into a scratch database.“I'm building off-platform backups for Supabase/Neon apps — because free tier = zero backups”
- pgblame — Correlates Postgres slow-query stats with deploy events to show which deploy caused a query slowdown.“I built a thing that tells you which deploy slowed down your Postgres queries”
Pitched as alternatives to Neon
- Layerbase — Hosts serverless and managed databases across 18 engines, with database branching.“Serverless and Managed Databases (with branching) for 18 Engines”
- Homebox — Hosts and deploys GitHub-connected apps from a local machine, with Cloudflare domains and automatic deploys on push.“Wondering if you can host your apps for free? Now you can”