I came from MySQL and so I’m still just excited about the basic stuff like authentication and policies, but I really like how they’ve also integrated storage with the same permissions and auth too.
It’s also open source so if you can to just host it yourself you stil can.
And did I mention they’ll do your auth for you?
We're about to wrap up Row Level Security on our real-time APIs too[0] - soon you'll be able to use Policies universally on all APIs.
You also get a feeling about a company pretty quick from their docs (I think it’s the best way to judge a company) and I have to say I had the same feeling as using Twilio or Cloudflare for the first time - so you’re in good company.
I feel like I live in a cave because I haven't quite understood what problem Supabase/Firebase is solving for.
We give you a full PG database for every project, and auto-generated APIs using PostgREST [0]. We configure everything in your project so that it's easy to use Postgres Row Level Security.
As OP mentions, we also provide a few additional services that you typically need when building a product - connection pooling (pgbouncer), object storage, authentication + user management, dashboards, reports, etc. You don't need to use all of these - you can just use us as a "DBaaS" too.
I think it's fantastic to make deploying existing software/tools easier, and people are definitely willing to pay for the ease, curious though - what prevents the Postgres team from taking supabase contributions (since it's Apache 2.0) and including it in core Postgres?
Absolutely nothing - we are open source and we would encourage it. However we're not modifying Postgres itself at this stage, we're just providing tooling around it. We have hired developers to work specifically on Postgres but we will always attempt to upstream (if the PG community wants it) rather than maintain a fork
I prefer to use companies where you're using their bread and butter service. That way you know they won't suddenly lose interest in it, which google has a reputation for, especially anything to do with google cloud.
I just find what Supabase it trying to do matches up exactly with what I wanted - it solves 90% of my developer headaches and all works together nicely.
Plus I just get good vibes from Supabase in general.