Glad you like it. It was built to fix some of PgBouncers shortcomings that we ran into at Instacart many years ago, and to have a stronger foundation for scaling Postgres horizontally (that's sharding)!

It's been a pong pong back and forth between PG reverse proxy submissions lately! "Why we built [Pgdog]": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48819308

Ack, we will consider offering pgdog in the future! More context on why we chose pgbouncer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873867