Last year I went down a similar rabbit hole, and my conclusions were matched those in the article. If you have a project that you’re getting off the ground and don’t have funding for one of the more expensive options, you can either tie yourself to firebase or spend a lot of time configuring one of the open, self hosted options. Auth can be such a huge time sync even when trying to do “the right thing” of not rolling your own.

I was also similarly disappointed with the quality of Supabase’s auth offering considering all the praise I consistently see for Supabase on HN.