Show HN: GETadb.com – every GET request creates a DB

A new Hacker News launch, GETadb.com, is pitching a wild shortcut: make a simple web request and boom, you get the ingredients for a ready-to-use app backend — no account, no dashboard, no waiting room. The big promise is that your favorite AI helper can grab the setup instructions, start building, and only later do you officially claim the project. In plain English: it’s trying to turn the boring setup phase into a one-click handoff for app-making bots.

But the real fireworks were in the comments, where the community instantly split into camps. One side called it “very cool” but also asked the painfully practical question: why not just use a simple local database like SQLite and skip the drama? Another group was even less charmed, with one commenter groaning that “the agent thing is going a bit out of hand here,” basically summing up a growing fatigue with every product being wrapped in AI instructions.

Then came the trust panic. One of the sharpest reactions was a flat “Err, no thanks” to the idea of giving a language model a URL and telling it to obey whatever it finds there. That comment gave the whole launch an extra dose of sci-fi paranoia. And of course, Hacker News couldn’t resist a naming joke: one reader admitted they thought this was about downloading Android Debug Bridge, not creating databases, and suggested the site should really be called GETaDB. Meanwhile, another commenter zeroed in on the most delightfully chaotic line in the instructions: apps must “LOOK AMAZING”. In other words, even the robots are being told to serve looks now.