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Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative

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Re: Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative

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Post by nmfisher »

My app is currently built on top of Firebase but I’m keenly aware of the cost of lock-in as traffic escalates.

Is this a replacement for the whole suite of Firebase offerings (hosting, auth and data store) or just a subset?

What’s the migration pathway for someone currently on Firebase?

Re: Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative

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Post by tmikaeld »

kiwicopple wrote: post #2

co-founder here, happy to answer any questions. We're currently in alpha - app.supabase.io We also have a lot more to build, so to reward you for your patience we are completely free right now

How much cheaper than Firebase do you expect to be when you launch?

Re: Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative

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Post by phreack »

nmfisher wrote: post #3

My app is currently built on top of Firebase but I’m keenly aware of the cost of lock-in as traffic escalates. Is this a replacement for the whole suite of Firebase offerings (hosting, auth and data store) or just a subset? What’s the migration pathway for someone currently on Firebase?

It looks like a way to turn Postgres into a Firebase real-time database alternative, so not Crashlytics, Auth or file storage AFAIK (and I'd suggest making it more obvious on the website if I'm wrong!)

Re: Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative

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Post by lukeramsden »

kiwicopple wrote: post #2

co-founder here, happy to answer any questions. We're currently in alpha - app.supabase.io We also have a lot more to build, so to reward you for your patience we are completely free right now

How does this compare to Postgraphile or Hasura? Or rather, how is it going to compare once you've had some time to get it out of alpha.

Re: Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative

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Post by imedadel »

kiwicopple wrote: post #2

co-founder here, happy to answer any questions. We're currently in alpha - app.supabase.io We also have a lot more to build, so to reward you for your patience we are completely free right now

About the choice of the database. Why did you decide to go with PSQL instead of a NoSQL database as Firebase does? Doesn't that affect your scalability?

Otherwise, great project!

Re: Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative

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Post by kiwicopple »

nmfisher wrote: post #3

My app is currently built on top of Firebase but I’m keenly aware of the cost of lock-in as traffic escalates. Is this a replacement for the whole suite of Firebase offerings (hosting, auth and data store) or just a subset? What’s the migration pathway for someone currently on Firebase?

We've been building furiously since January but (not surprisingly) we haven't yet reached feature parity. But we will :)

> data store

Yes - our data store is just Postgres so you can migrate in/out - no lockin

> hosting, auth

Not yet. We want to nail the auth and we're looking at leveraging Postgres' native Row Level Security. This is a tricky task to "generalize" for all businesses but we have some good ideas (we're discussing in our repo if you want to follow - https://github.com/supabase/supabase)

> What’s the migration pathway for someone currently on Firebase?

This is also something we're building - a migration tool. Mapping NoSQL to RDBMS is complex, but something I tackled in my previous company. We'll build it so that Firebase and Supabase run "in parallel", which we can do since both have realtime functionality. And then when you're happy, you will be able to switch off Firebase

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