10 engineers on Hacker News describe using Prisma first-hand: 3 endorse it, 4 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“are using vanilla postgres with Prisma. That's worked well for us.”
endorse · production · atonse · 2025-04-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“you seem to be able to get more granular control over DB types than, in my recent experience anyway, we had using Prisma / Nextjs.”
regret · production · komali2 · 2025-02-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Prisma in part due to its migration support, I want it to Just Work”
endorse · production · satvikpendem · 2024-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I iterated an array and want to save it to the DB but it's running out of connections”
regret · personal · sergiotapia · 2022-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Prisma just clashes with the way we want an ORM to work in so many ways.”
regret · production · 1 yr · devjab · 2022-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I swear that 80% of developers' time was wasted on fighting compatibility issues. Actual work happened in the small crevices of time left”
regret · production · 0.5 yr · abraxas · 2022-07-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I loved Prisma 1, and probably would love Prisma 2 too”
endorse · production · linkdd · 2021-03-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm quite familiar with prisma.js.”
neutral · personal · esperent · 2025-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“compatibility with prisma, which we use for defining our db's schema and automating migrations”
neutral · production · Arctic_fly · 2024-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I ended up writing my own Auth stack around prisma, trpc and jwt”
neutral · personal · jokethrowaway · 2022-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?