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This is great! At hackathons in the past, I usually use SQLite for development, and once everything is set, switch over to a more traditional RDBMS. This is a great site that is definitely going in the bookmarks.

Out of curiosity, can you elaborate on the the technologies you used for this (lang, frameworks, hosting services)? I've been trying to learn design patterns for larger software like this, so your insight would be great.

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Glad you like it! We used to use a similar method for hackathons in the past, but we were getting tired of always having to configure databases.

We used NextJS for the UI, and Node + LevelDB on the backend.

SQLite is so awesome. I love how python has a library built-in for it.

That SQLite plus SQLAlchemy makes hackathon code so easy to port to another RDBMS after finishing the initial PoC.

Also makes it super easy to run unittests; just load data into sqlite with the memory connector and go!

SQLite is so great. We built this partially because we wanted SQLite's capabilities without deploys blowing away the instance.

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