Angels of Supabase • Hacker News Board

Re: Angels of Supabase

#11

Post by kiwicopple » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 10:13 AM UTC

thecupisblue wrote: post #10

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.

We still haven't figured out pricing to be honest. (we will release our full pricing details on Monday [0])

We chatted to (a lot of) developers/founders to figure out the right pricing structure, and everyone has a different opinion.

However: the most common thing we heard is that it's extremely unlikely to find the right pricing model on your first attempt. It's better to get something out, and iterate. You can then "grandfather" your existing customers - they continue paying the original price while you change pricing for new customers.

Happy to chat more about this if you want (you can find my email in my profile)

[0] Pricing Launch: https://supabase.io/blog/2021/03/25/launch-week

Re: Angels of Supabase

#12

Post by searchableguy » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 10:17 PM UTC

Intriguing to see this. Someone from on deck mentioned they can spend upto 50 hours coding per week. That seems a bit excessive.

I haven't been using supabase much since alpha but it's really a good example of open source startup. I did notice your attempt to integrate deno for Postgres function recently though. Any conclusion to that MVP?

Best of luck for the launch and deciding pricing.

Re: Angels of Supabase

#13

Post by kiwicopple » Sat, Mar 27, 2021, 12:33 AM UTC

searchableguy wrote: post #12

Intriguing to see this. Someone from on deck mentioned they can spend upto 50 hours coding per week. That seems a bit excessive. I haven't been using supabase much since alpha but it's really a good example of open source startup. I did notice your attempt to integrate deno for Postgres function recently though. Any conclusion to that MVP? Best of luck for the launch and deciding pricing.

Thanks for the kind words.

> attempt to integrate deno for Postgres

This is a (public) exploration. It looks like it's possible, but it doesn't provide much benefit over sending a payload to a serverless function, which can be in any language, not just JS. So we decided we'd deliver serverless function support first, utilising our Realtime server: https://github.com/supabase/realtime