7 engineers on Hacker News describe using Neon first-hand: 3 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“We run asyncpg directly against Neon Postgres without PgBouncer... Neon's serverless connection pooling handles a lot of what PgBouncer would”
endorse · production · CodeWithLeo · 2026-08-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Neon Postgres (and probably other serverless DBs) drops idle connections; a single connection at startup will randomly start failing after a few minutes”
regret · personal · brian200 · 2026-03-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I recently found neon which allows me to repurpose the device. And, it is incredible.”
endorse · personal · xrd · 2025-10-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Another satisfied Neon user here. We migrated our tooling, users and thousands of databases recently and it has just worked.”
endorse · production · shever73 · 2024-04-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we replaced pinecone and rds with neon under the hood”
neutral · production · kencho · 2026-03-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Turns out that was neon under the hood.”
neutral · personal · alexnewman · 2024-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?