I love this and agree with it so strongly. But I'm also shaken to my core that there's a $30/mo Neon bill for personal software. Even if it's being used for "slightly larger projects" as well that's a ton of overkill for what seems like mostly read only data.

I'm the sort of person who leans on Postgres instead of sqlite, but I'll put aside the sqlite argument for now because the fruit is so low hanging here. These use cases could probably work just fine with something far less robust. A redundant cluster of two db.t4g.micro RDS instances is ~$20/mo. But you probably don't even need that. Even just a container with a persistent volume seems like it would do the trick. With a little bit of caching, all of this could probably fit in the AWS DSQL free tier. And it brings me no joy to say that using AWS managed offerings is the operationally cheaper option.

I love Neon and think it's an incredible service, but this is some Heroku-ass pricing.