looks more like a Hasura distribution than a distinct tool?
Hasura GraphQL Engine is one of the open source tools we're using for the Nhost stack. But it's "only" one of the open source technologies we're using.
Others are:
- Postgres. Who doesn't love Postgres?
- Hasura Auth: https://github.com/nhost/hasura-auth
- Hasura Storage: http://github.com/nhost/hasura-storage
- Serverless Functions (Node.js)
On top of that we have SKDs in JS/TS/React/Next.js/Vue.
And a CLI for local development and a GitHub integration so you can deploy your backend just like you deploy your frontend with Netlify and Vercel.
Hope that clarifies a bit.
in other words: what’s your moat?
NHost gets you Hasura, the underlying postgres db, pre-configured auth with JWTs, blob storage, functions and a client-side library to get all of that working together with nearly zero configuration.
edit: also, Hasura's cheapest offering ($100 / month) is still prohibitively expensive for indie projects (That's just Hasura - you would have to add database costs, auth costs and blob storage costs to that $100).
It's freaking crazy
We also provide SDKs in JS, TS, React, Next.js, and Vue: https://docs.nhost.io/reference/javascript
built to leverage Hasura's features and driven by users needs
Hasura Auth has 1M+ pulls on Docker Hub and we have JS SDKs for both Auth and Storage.