Dev builds hosted PostgreSQL MCP over 8 months, lands first paying customers
Zestyclose-Driver917 · reddit · 2026-10-21
Full-stack dev Andrei, tired of copying SQL between Copilot/Claude and DBeaver, spent 8 months of evenings building datamcp, a hosted PostgreSQL MCP service that has served real paying customers since June.
Key points:
- Local MCP servers work, but hosted connections are handier when traveling or letting teammates debug data, without scattering DB credentials across configs or prompts.
- The hardest part wasn't exposing Postgres tools — it was designing the permission model, access controls, and infrastructure for remote clients.
- A tunnel agent for Postgres on private VPS/EC2/subnets is in final testing.
Revenue doesn't yet cover infra bills; he posted partly to learn how to sell and turn first unexpected customers into repeatable growth, and to ask whether developers would ever trust a hosted database MCP.
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