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Why do you use supabase and not just postgres?

Do you use supabase’s api interface to do the queries? Or do you use supabase for other features?

When I first started working on the website nine months ago, I didn’t even know what Postgres was, so going with an easier option made sense. Right now, we also use Supabase for auth and emails.

For queries, we don’t use Supabase’s API interface—we interact with Postgres directly through our backend

Thanks for your answer. Interesting take that you did not know about postgres, but chose an api for storage instead. I would have done the opposite.

Well, they use Supabase for auth. Perhaps there's other integration there.

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