Backenly is an autonomous backend platform built for coding agents. Your agent builds the backend over MCP, from Postgres to sign-in, storage, functions and realtime. Then it maintains itself: every minute a self-healing loop repairs missing indexes, RLS gaps and dead realtime triggers, verifying each fix live. As your app grows, it restructures its own schema once you approve. Risky changes wait for you, and every change is versioned with rollback.
AI coding agents can now build an application in an afternoon. But once that application goes live, the backend still works the old way: it waits for a person to notice what broke.
APIs break. Schemas drift. Permissions leak. Migrations go wrong. Patches pile up. Eventually, someone has to stop building and start debugging the backend.
We started Backenly around one question:
If software is increasingly built by AI agents, why should the backend still depend on humans to keep it alive?
So we built an autonomous backend platform for AI coding agents.
Through MCP, agents can create and work with:
Postgres databases with row-level security
Authentication
Storage
Realtime
Functions
But the part we care about most begins after deployment.
Every minute, Backenly checks the running backend, works out what has gone wrong, fixes what it can verify and roll back, and confirms the fix worked. Anything it can't fix safely waits for your approval.
And we didn't want "autonomous" to mean endlessly applying patches.
If Backenly keeps finding problems in the same part of a table, or changes to it keep locking a table serving live traffic, that table might be doing two jobs.
Instead of adding another patch, Backenly can rehearse splitting it on a copy and show you the proposed change. Once you approve, it moves the data while your app keeps working.
That's the idea we're most excited about: a backend that repairs itself and changes shape as your application grows.
Of course, giving software this much autonomy creates a different problem: trust.
Every change Backenly makes autonomously must be reversible, verified after execution, and recorded in one history so you can see what changed and why.
Destructive changes, like dropping a table, always wait for your approval. Your coding agent cannot approve them on your behalf.
🎁 Launch offer: Use code PRODUCTHUNT50 for 50% off monthly Pro for three months.
We're still early, and that's exactly why we wanted to launch here.
I'd especially love feedback from people building with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other coding agents:
What would you trust an autonomous backend to change completely on its own, and what should always require your approval?
Lakshmi and I will be here all day answering questions. Really excited to hear what you think! 🚀
About Backenly on Product Hunt
“The autonomous backend for AI coding agents”
Backenly launched on Product Hunt on October 31st, 2026 and earned 153 upvotes and 22 comments, placing #4 on the daily leaderboard. Backenly is an autonomous backend platform built for coding agents. Your agent builds the backend over MCP, from Postgres to sign-in, storage, functions and realtime. Then it maintains itself: every minute a self-healing loop repairs missing indexes, RLS gaps and dead realtime triggers, verifying each fix live. As your app grows, it restructures its own schema once you approve. Risky changes wait for you, and every change is versioned with rollback.
On the analytics side, Backenly competes within Open Source, Developer Tools, GitHub and Database — topics that collectively have 635.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Backenly performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Backenly?
Backenly was hunted by Zac Zuo. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Backenly including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Zac Zuo
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Adarsh, cofounder of Backenly with @lakshmi_sunil
AI coding agents can now build an application in an afternoon. But once that application goes live, the backend still works the old way: it waits for a person to notice what broke.
APIs break. Schemas drift. Permissions leak. Migrations go wrong. Patches pile up. Eventually, someone has to stop building and start debugging the backend.
We started Backenly around one question:
If software is increasingly built by AI agents, why should the backend still depend on humans to keep it alive?
So we built an autonomous backend platform for AI coding agents.
Through MCP, agents can create and work with:
Postgres databases with row-level security
Authentication
Storage
Realtime
Functions
But the part we care about most begins after deployment.
Every minute, Backenly checks the running backend, works out what has gone wrong, fixes what it can verify and roll back, and confirms the fix worked. Anything it can't fix safely waits for your approval.
And we didn't want "autonomous" to mean endlessly applying patches.
If Backenly keeps finding problems in the same part of a table, or changes to it keep locking a table serving live traffic, that table might be doing two jobs.
Instead of adding another patch, Backenly can rehearse splitting it on a copy and show you the proposed change. Once you approve, it moves the data while your app keeps working.
That's the idea we're most excited about: a backend that repairs itself and changes shape as your application grows.
Of course, giving software this much autonomy creates a different problem: trust.
Every change Backenly makes autonomously must be reversible, verified after execution, and recorded in one history so you can see what changed and why.
Destructive changes, like dropping a table, always wait for your approval. Your coding agent cannot approve them on your behalf.
Getting started with Backenly
Start free at backenly.com and connect Claude Code, Cursor or Codex in one command: backenly.com/docs/connect
🎁 Launch offer: Use code PRODUCTHUNT50 for 50% off monthly Pro for three months.
We're still early, and that's exactly why we wanted to launch here.
I'd especially love feedback from people building with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other coding agents:
What would you trust an autonomous backend to change completely on its own, and what should always require your approval?
Lakshmi and I will be here all day answering questions. Really excited to hear what you think! 🚀