Introduction

Today, I am kickstarting my blogging journey by explaining one of the tools which help me in building my personal site. Notion is a very popular product which provides tools for note-taking, project management, collaboration, and more. However, today I am further exploring Notion usage as a database.

So why did I not use MySQL, Postgres or any other RDBMS? Well I do not want to bear the cost of hosting the database and hence I choose to explore my options and here we go, Notion is the perfect choice for me. Lets see the benefits of building an application with Notion as backend/database.

Benefits

Today, I am kickstarting my blogging journey by explaining one of the tools which help me in building my personal site. Notion is a very popular product which provides tools for note-taking, project management, collaboration, and more. However, today I am further exploring Notion usage as a database.

So why did I not use MySQL, Postgres or any other RDBMS? Well I do not want to bear the cost of hosting the database and hence I choose to explore my options and here we go, Notion is the perfect choice for me. Lets see the benefits of building an application with Notion as backend/database.