Supabase Series B

I would love to have a usage-based pricing tier, as once I'm live I doubt I'll have enough users to merit $25/mo but I would still like to pay for daily backups etc

Regardless, congrats again. The product looks really interesting, and I'll keep it in mind in the future for any projects that fit the bill.

On top of that, funding like this gives a pretty optimistic outlook on the future of the project when compared to a fully community managed open-source project that could become abandonware.

I've inherited a Parse codebase in the past, and thought it was pretty gross. You're stuck building with their ORM abstractions, so it hurts when you need to do something complex. I view Parse as Facebook abandonware that's been salvaged by a community of developers who need to maintain legacy apps on life support. I think it'd be unwise to start a new project backed by Parse.

Having to deal with one-size-fits-all database "adaptors" for either Mongo-flavored or Postgres-flavored Parse is limiting, whereas having direct access to Postgres is a huge benefit of Supabase.

With Supabase, you can leverage all of the goodies that Postgres has to offer, which is exactly what I want as a developer. Even something as simple as writing custom SQL is a well-defined operation within the Supabase ecosystem, whereas with Parse you're in undefined glhf territory. Add that to first-class support for realtime updates, row-level security, and their other features, and Supabase comes out way ahead in my opinion.

Maybe eventually I'll have to explore other options, but for now my projects are still small enough where their feature set meet my needs. I think $25/mo is well worth it, knowing:

1. I can spin up a db & auth for a new project without having to spend hours on configuration & deployment

2. I can sleep well at night not worrying about one faulty line of code bringing down my entire app

Having less features makes it easier to talk to users about their main issues and reduce friction in onboarding/setup/etc. Maybe Parse became so complete it's really hard to get started.

I guess my doubt is, what's the point you are trying to make? That their product isn't good enough to warrant so much attention + funding since there are better options, that it's just marketing and good docs and everyone is just being fooled into using a lesser product?

We call it lawyers.txt because every time we're fundraising the lawyers ask for it.

All I am saying: it took a lot of marketing to get yourself out there even if you give it for free nowadays.

when was the last time you saw anything firebase shipped on HN?

Instead, look at new projects only (not existing). If a large % of new projects start with Supabase instead of Firebase then they will eventually have a large number of total users (to monetize).

Ideally, for Supabase as a business, this would combine with churn eroding Firebase's project/user count. And that's the story of how Supabase will eventually get acquired by one of the FANGs.