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This has got to be one of the slickest websites I've seen on the web, kudos strongly deserved.

On the tech itself, it's a shame nothing like this exists for MySQL, but not surprising.

We debated internally if we wanted to provide MySQL too. On one hand it’s not that different and our storage can be adapted to run MySQL.

On the other hand focus and product identity are very important for startups. So it’s only Postgres

There's a project to try get a MySQL compatible extension for Postgres going, which may work.

Isn't this what PlanetScale is all about?

It's not open source, and whilst its built on Vitess, Vitess alone doesn't do what Neon does, just makes it easier to horizontally scale.