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hey hn, supabase ceo her
we just announced GA, after ~4 years of beta. for those who don't know: supabase is a postgres hosting company. we also host other open source "backend" tools that make it easy to get started with postgres (tools like PostgREST for auto-generate APIs [0])
we owe a lot to the HN community. you launched us 4 years ago [1], when we were just a few developers. since then HN has been a staple in our journey, one of the best sources of product feedback [2]
the GA badge is mostly to signify organizational readiness. we're at a stage where we can take any profile of customer. we have a support team that works 24/7, and a success team that will help customers improve their postgres usage. we released our Index Advisor [3] yesterday, and we'll be releasing a few more products this week that helps customer with performance and security.
on a personal note: i read HN most days, and love going through the ShowHN's to see what devs are building. thanks for being an awesome community and my favorite place to lurk on the internet. i'll stick around to answer any questions
[0] PostgREST: https://postgrest.org
[1] Launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23319901
[2] HN journey: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
[3] Index Advisor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40028111
hey hn, supabase ceo her
we just announced GA, after ~4 years of beta. for those who don't know: supabase is a postgres hosting company. we also host other open source "backend" tools that make it easy to get started with postgres (tools like PostgREST for auto-generate APIs [0])
we owe a lot to the HN community. you launched us 4 years ago [1], when we were just a few developers. since then HN has been a staple in our journey, one of the best sources of product feedback [2]
the GA badge is mostly to signify organizational readiness. we're at a stage where we can take any profile of customer. we have a support team that works 24/7, and a success team that will help customers improve their postgres usage. we released our Index Advisor [3] yesterday, and we'll be releasing a few more products this week that helps customer with performance and security.
on a personal note: i read HN most days, and love going through the ShowHN's to see what devs are building. thanks for being an awesome community and my favorite place to lurk on the internet. i'll stick around to answer any questions
[0] PostgREST: https://postgrest.org
[1] Launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23319901
[2] HN journey: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
[3] Index Advisor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40028111
- Functions have a critical bug that prevent us from using in development so we decided to move to our own API servers: https://github.com/supabase/edge-runtime/issues/212
- Now, the connection between our API servers and the database was slow (a few hundred ms per query), so we moved to self-hosting Postgres which was pretty painful. We tried to use https://github.com/supabase/postgres, but the documentation was very lacking and we had to make a bunch of modifications to get it to work. After we got it working, it was pretty smooth though - pretty easy to implement backups, etc.
People keep writing this, doesn't Supabase rely on spinning up additional services to leave, meaning you can't leave to another managed offering?
Off the top of my mind, PostgREST and go-true? https://github.com/supabase/auth
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If you use Postgres you're "locked" into Postgres: a technology with a laundry list of providers.
If you leave Supabase, you'll lose the fully managed aspect of 99% of the Postgres providers out there, which confirms the pain the parent comment is describing.
we actually have this:
https://supabase.com/blog/studio-introducing-assistant#user-...
and you can expect to see another related launch this week with some more in-depth tooling:
https://github.com/supabase/splinter
Supabase is great - I use them now and they and would be my choice for a new project today - but I have to say I am not a huge fan of how they communicated the whole auth-helpers and ssr situation, and I am not the only one with this comment by a long shot. This is, I think, a part of wider issues with their documentation; it seems like whoever's doing documentation at Supabase is intelligent but stretched thin. Particularly for Sveltekit, the documentation and examples are incomplete, there isn't any guide to migration or how to modify your code, and if you Google things or follow any links or examples you quickly end up in a web of deprecated repositories where it's unclear what to do next or replace them with. One example: https://github.com/supabase-community/auth-ui
If you produce a product for developers, you really need to have 1) quality, readable documentation with an introduction that noobs and pros alike can follow, 2) multiple complete, cloneable examples on how to integrate and use your product in several different libraries, 3) obvious migration guides and timelines whenever you deprecate something. Supabase lacks all three, which is extremely frustrating and means there's always a giant caveat when I recommend them. They're still the best, it's a very powerful and impressive product, and the possibility of self-hosting is amazing.