Angels of Supabase

#1

Post by swyx » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 6:27 PM UTC

Angels of Supabase
supabase.io

Re: Angels of Supabase

#2

Post by inssein » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 7:57 PM UTC

I was surprised that Mike Krieger (Cofounder & CTO of Instagram) spends ~30 hours a week coding.

It doesn't seem like most CTO's, especially at big companies do a lot of coding anymore.

Re: Angels of Supabase

#3

Post by mkl » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 9:01 PM UTC

Those are interesting questions and answers. Are there other companies that have approached fundraising in this developer-focused way?

If the Supabase people are reading this, there's a typo at the end: "round lead by" -> "round led by".

Re: Angels of Supabase

#4

Post by justsomeuser » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 11:20 PM UTC

I wonder what Supabase's pricing will be?

I guess it will be per VM instance hour, unlike Firebase's scale out read/writes?

I think they are competing against AWS, GCP and Azure, not just Firebase?

Re: Angels of Supabase

#5

Post by kiwicopple » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 3:04 AM UTC

mkl wrote: post #3

Those are interesting questions and answers. Are there other companies that have approached fundraising in this developer-focused way? If the Supabase people are reading this, there's a typo at the end: "round lead by" -> "round led by".

Fixed! https://github.com/supabase/supabase/commit/bffc3de6295b6a96...

Thanks

Re: Angels of Supabase

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Post by kiwicopple » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 3:08 AM UTC

justsomeuser wrote: post #4

I wonder what Supabase's pricing will be? I guess it will be per VM instance hour, unlike Firebase's scale out read/writes? I think they are competing against AWS, GCP and Azure, not just Firebase?

Supabase cofounder here - we're releasing our pricing on Monday.

Pricing is one of the hardest things we've had to figure out.

Re: Angels of Supabase

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Post by orangefarm » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 3:22 AM UTC

kiwicopple wrote: post #6

justsomeuser wrote: post #4

I wonder what Supabase's pricing will be? I guess it will be per VM instance hour, unlike Firebase's scale out read/writes? I think they are competing against AWS, GCP and Azure, not just Firebase?

Supabase cofounder here - we're releasing our pricing on Monday. Pricing is one of the hardest things we've had to figure out.

Any timeline for the swift client? I use Firebase currently and would strongly consider switching to Supabase as soon as a Swift client is available.

Re: Angels of Supabase

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Post by kiwicopple » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 3:49 AM UTC

orangefarm wrote: post #7

kiwicopple wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Supabase cofounder here - we're releasing our pricing on Monday. Pricing is one of the hardest things we've had to figure out.

Any timeline for the swift client? I use Firebase currently and would strongly consider switching to Supabase as soon as a Swift client is available.

We were chatting to the DraftBit team about working on the Swift client together, but we have both been a bit busy.

I don't have a timeline for it yet, but if you're interested in helping build the rest client[0], let me know and I can give some more details.

[0] https://github.com/supabase/postgrest-swift

Re: Angels of Supabase

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Post by kiwicopple » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 3:51 AM UTC

inssein wrote: post #2

I was surprised that Mike Krieger (Cofounder & CTO of Instagram) spends ~30 hours a week coding. It doesn't seem like most CTO's, especially at big companies do a lot of coding anymore.

Mike isn't at Instagram anymore, he is working on something new.

Of all the angels we met though, he was definitely the most technical. We chatted about Postgres scaling issues and some obscure challenges that we would have to overcome.

Re: Angels of Supabase

#10

Post by thecupisblue » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 9:27 AM UTC

Great post, quite unusual to see something like this but also great to see who else believes in the product.

I wonder how you figured out pricing, since I'm working on something that is similar in a few aspects and am trying to figure out how to combine open source and pricing for it.