Built for personal apps.

I built shovelbase to solve a problem I kept running into myself.

While I was building a finance app, I realized I was spending more time managing and monitoring AWS infrastructure than experimenting with the ideas that made the app worth building.

So for my next two apps — KYDGolf and FinnSmartNotes, both on the App Store — I switched to Supabase. It was a real step up, but its pricing was built for apps chasing scale, and it didn't match what I was actually using while I was still figuring out whether the idea worked.

That's when it clicked: a lot of us aren't trying to build the next mass-market app. We're building bespoke apps to solve a personal problem — and none of the managed backends are priced or sized for that.

So I made one that is. Shovelbase is an all-in-one managed backend built for exactly those apps.