Storage is now available in Supabase (YC S20)

Post by clairity » Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 4:35 PM UTC

nightowl_games wrote: post #77

clairity wrote: post #57

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this is what soured me on piwik (now matomo) as a self-hosted web analytics solution. they allow you to self-host, but make it difficult to automate updates, to steer you to their hosting service instead.

What is the difference between "make it difficult" and "don't include"? They gotta keep some features in their hosting service, don't they?

it’s been a couple years now, so i don’t remember the details, but i tried to workaround the limitations and came away with the conclusion that automating upgrades was intentionally crippled rather than simply neglected. there was no documentation on it, and it was explicitly touted as a feature of the hosted product.

the problem is one of messaging and positioning in line with the parent comment’s criticisms. instead of calling the non-hosted version a limited demo, the implied claim is that the non-hosted version is ‘production-ready’. but ‘upgrades’ were fresh reinstalls, complete with database integrity issues at stake. it was clearly a gotcha situation to steer you quickly to the hosted version (rather than being upfront about this significant limitation).

Post by rattray » Sun, Apr 04, 2021, 4:38 PM UTC

turtlebits wrote: post #68

smalltalks wrote: post #35

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Everything said above is true. Supabase started Open Source , their GitHub repo had tutorials on how to host the platform yourself with a bit of documentation. Basically from what I understood they've been growing SO FAST ( they raise 10+$M IIRC ) they had to make a choice between "Growth" or "Integrity". Obviously it's a YC company , the market they're going after is massive , they chose growth over integrity and do…

They provide a Docker image, Dockerfile and a docker-compose to run the whole stack. I'm assuming it should be relatively easy to point their client at your own instance and they should work. What more do you want?

I think what more they want is the dashboard, which isn't open-source or self-hostable. Sort of fair ask, but also pretty fair for Supabase not to provide that IMO.

They also want better self-hosting docs, though IMO it's fair for that to be primarily driven by community forums.

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