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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

#11

Is this a joke about supa hot fire? Since I'm here for it.

Funny story, Supabase was originally a placeholder name - it was a joke so that Ant (co-founder) and I could entertain each other with Nikki Minaj "Super Bass" memes while we were brainstorming.

But the name grew on us once we made the initial design. Thankfully Nikki Minaj isn't well-known amongst techies.

I hope I haven't just ruined our credibility

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

#12

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

Any link to deployable dockerized versions?

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

#13
post #9

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!

Actually we chose Postgres specifically because it is scalable. I had to switch from Firebase in my previous company because we hit some scaling limits. Postgres handles the scale no problem - it's crazy the performance improvement we saw (and it's ACID)

The trickiest part was the realtime functionality - https://github.com/supabase/realtime

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

#14

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 app handle authn?

see my other comment

> 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)

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

#15

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

Any link to deployable dockerized versions?

Theres a version here: https://hub.docker.com/r/supabase/supabase-dev

But we will be releasing a much more robust version with docs soon!

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

#17

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

Hey there, I like the product and think your business model is admirable. I would like to make a suggestion that you consider offering some support for your enterprise patrons. $1000+/mo is very steep for an ad even if it was a popular product. imo that should come with some amount of white glove treatment.

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

#18

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.

Good question - one we get asked often. We don't use GraphQL (but you can do deep-queries: https://supabase.io/docs/library/get#query-foreign-tables)

Under the hood we use PostgREST. At the same time, we may (also) offer GraphQL using Postgraphile, so people can bring their own client-library.

Differences from Hasura:

- Auth: we will use Postgres RLS

- Realtime: we don't use triggers, we use WAL (much more scalable)

- Only Postgres: Hasura mentioned they will build for other RDBMS. We're all in on PG and some of the more advanced features (replication, High Availability)

- UI/UX. We will build an interface like Airtable, so that even your non-techie friends can use it

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

#19
post #17

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

Hey there, I like the product and think your business model is admirable. I would like to make a suggestion that you consider offering some support for your enterprise patrons. $1000+/mo is very steep for an ad even if it was a popular product. imo that should come with some amount of white glove treatment.

That's a good call - let me update!

edit: OK added - https://github.com/sponsors/supabase

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