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Angels of Supabase

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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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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