Cute cat explaining software tool that creates transformed copies of your production database

Quit writing seed scripts, start shipping features

Get production-accurate data and preview databases to code against, fast.

If you're working a lot on e2e systems where you work on production database, that can be dangerous due to privacy concerns. @appfactory has been building snaplet exactly to avoid those issues.

7:17 pm · 14 Nov 2021 · Twitter

Tom Preston-Werner

@mojombo

"Get a safe, minimized version of your production database on your laptop in minutes."

I’ve needed this on every serious project I’ve worked on and it’s always been hard. Stoked to see @appfactory start to open up the Snaplet beta!

5:29 pm · 17 May 2021 · Twitter

Dan Miller

@jazzdan

I hope we get the chance to write up the tools we use to build @replayio soon, but in the meantime I'll just say that @_snaplet enabled us to pretty quickly build an excellent dev environment with a tiny (but growing!) engineering team.

8:18 pm · 22 Nov 2021 · Twitter

Daniel Norman

@daniel2color

Couldn't be more excited about @snaplet.dev! I've been wanting that ever since I started development with databases.

11:58 am · 12 May 2021 · Twitter

Robby Russell

@robbyrussell

Just gave @_snaplet a whirl and outside of not understanding some syntax stuff...first experiment worked well for anonymizing data from a Heroku-hosted Rails app database

10:11 pm · 3 Feb 2022 · Twitter

David S Price

@thedavidprice

Check out @_snaplet by Redwood's very own @appfactory

It's the DB pipeline tool you've been missing.

8:12 pm · 16 Sept 2021 · Twitter

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Your dev-env matches production. Why not do the same with the data?

The most common ways to get data in your dev-env is to copy production data, or write seed scripts. Both suck!

Copying production data means copying private data, and wiring together different bits of infrastructure is complicated.

Seed scripts take a lot of time to write and maintain, they’re a small sample of data, and basically inaccurate.
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Snaplet improves the entire workflow.

Snappy, the cute dev cat needs data to code against but doesn't want to write seed scripts or make a database dump

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How it works

Choose where to host: Self-host or Snaplet cloud

Introspect database structure

Create a subset of sample data & transform PII

Create snapshots

Restore locally
or create instant preview database

Product overview

Snaplet is a software developer's tool for working with safe, versioned, up-to-date, production-like data, at the snap of your fingers.

Illustration of a cat paw clicking to draw a user's attention

Safe & secure

Easily identify and transform sensitive user data. Only authenticated team members can restore snapshots.

Custom anonymized data

Exclude optional tables & define exactly how to transform column data using JavaScript functions. No more DSL. Just code.

Fast, tiny downloads

Restore only essential tables as and when needed to create snapshots in just a few minutes.

Realistic

Substitute private column data with anonymized values so your development database looks and acts as real as possible.

Up to date

Schedule nightly, hourly or on-demand snapshots of your database.

Easy to restore

Easily restore your snapshots onto your dev-env using our CLI.

Pricing

We’re still figuring things out.

Whilst in open beta,

we’re totally free.

We want to launch these key features before we start charging:

1. Scheduled snapshot capture ✔
2. Restore to data target-cloud database
3. Pre-bake docker containers
4. Self-hosted snapshot capturers

We’re anticipating a per-developer pricing model for teams, so each member of your team that uses the CLI will pay a flat-monthly fee of $10 USD per developer.

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