Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration
Coding agents keep breaking production databases. Ardent just made that problem someone else's.
Why it matters
As AI agents scale into data engineering workflows, the ability to safely sandbox and test them against production-like databases becomes infrastructure-critical. Ardent addresses a real operational gap for teams deploying agents at scale.
The key facts
7 to knowArdent (YC P26) launches Postgres sandboxes for coding agents
Uses logical replication + DDL triggers for zero-migration setup
Enables copy-on-write clones with autoscaling compute via Kafka
Founders: Vikram + Evan; Evan has 12 years data engineering experience
Founded to solve production DB risk when deploying coding agents
Works with any hosted Postgres without platform migration
Free tier available; targeting teams building AI agents for DB tasks
Go to the source
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Publisher excerpt: Hey HN! We’re Vikram and Evan from Ardent (https://tryardent.com). We're building database sandboxes for you and your coding agents. In the last two years coding agents have gotten dramatically more capable at handling complex engineering tasks. But without access to a realistic sandbox at the DB…