◆ IN PLACE
A list you typed in ninety seconds is still the fastest way to think. Every other database makes you name the columns before it will let you type a word, so the thinking waits on the paperwork.
Carbon takes the mess. When the shape finally shows up, the list hardens where it sits, inside the note you were already writing. One thing that changed state, never a copy in a second place.
Contractor is back on the 18th. Anything still unticked by then is money I spend twice.
Four columns, four rows. Every type is a guess: click one to change it.
Everything around it stayed exactly where it was.
Click the list
◆ THE SQL
Most tools hide your data behind an interface and hope you never ask what's underneath. Carbon shows you. Every table you click into existence is a real CREATE TABLE, every field a typed column, readable by anything that speaks SQL.
There is no proprietary format holding you hostage. Look under the hood any time. It's your engine.
CREATE TABLE carbon_table_7 (
id bigint PRIMARY KEY,
field_44 varchar(255), -- Name
field_45 integer, -- Status
field_46 numeric(30,10), -- Budget
field_47 date -- Due
);
-- filters, sorts, and rollups run here, not in an app layer
◆ THE PULSE
The crystal in the corner of every page is not a logo. It spins with your server's heartbeat and freezes the moment the connection drops. No status page, no support ticket, no waiting for a vendor to admit something broke. You always know, without reading a word.
◆ IMPORT & EXPORT
The business model for big platforms is that it makes arriving easy and leaving painful. Drop in a spreadsheet, and a table forms around it. Ask for your data back, and it leaves whole in widely used formats: CSV, XLSX, and JSON.
You stay because it's good, not because you're stuck.
◆ SELF-HOSTED
Untouched by anyone's cloud.
carbon https://carbon.huy.gg ready in 40s
-- six services, one machine, zero vendors
-- your data: postgresql on this disk, nothing anywhere else
Leave the cloud.
Keep everything.
Carbon is in active build, and access is by invitation. If someone you know sent you, ask for a seat.