Supabase w Paul Copplestone

Scott and CJ chat with Paul Copplestone, CEO and co-founder of Supabase, about the journey of building an open source alternative to Firebase. Learn about the tech stack, the story behind their excellent documentation, and how Supabase balances business goals with open-source values.
Show Notes
00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
00:30 Who is Paul Copplestone?
01:17 Why 'Supa' and not 'Super'?
02:26 How did Supabase start?
04:29 How long from inception to joining Y Combinator?
05:10 Was it always intended to be open source?
07:22 How many users chose to self-host?
07:49 Open source mindset.
08:42 Simplicity in design.
10:32 How do you take Supabase one step beyond the competition?
12:35 How do you decide which libraries are officially supported vs community maintained?
15:17 You don't need a client library!
16:48 Edge functions for server-side functionality.
18:51 The genesis of pgvector.
20:59 The product strategy.
22:25 What's the story behind Supabase's awesome docs?
25:26 The tech behind Supabase.
25:39 What is the UI built on?
27:33 Consolidation follows kaizen.
28:54 What else is involved in the stack?
31:47 Authentication.
32:35 Storage engine.
33:13 For self-hosting.
35:46 How do you balance business goals with open source?
42:01 What's next for Supabase?
44:15 Supabase's GA + new features.
Top 10 LAunches from Supabase GA Week.
48:24 Who runs the X account?
50:39 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs.
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[@dshukertjr]

Working on the Supabase SDK for Flutter was the best decision that I have ever made in my career! Thanks for the mention!

[@jakin314]

Love Supabase. Paul mentioned that he loved Airtable and how it would be great if it used Postgres. Did you also know that Baserow is an open-source alternative to Airtable and guess what? it uses Postgres as the DB.

[@sueaustin6261]

love supabase, CJ do you have any streams of you working on a local install?

[@gobajoseph5064]

Super es ce qu'on peut dire que supabase est un backend qui offre également une Interface graphique a Postgresql comme pgAdm4 ?

[@animeshbhatt3383]

Please can you guys make a video on polyfill malware.

[@ZyncInteractive]

Nuxt 3 with the Supabase module ready to go makes life so much easier for auth and storage. Throw in Drizzle to manage their provided db and your set. Even has auto redirect to login without a valid session. Love it.

[@gobajoseph5064]

Concrètement c'est quoi la différence entre Postgresql et supabase. Parceque pg est aussi une bade de données c'est quoi l'apport de supabase

[@didiercatz]

not sure I like the intro song - kinda generic and loud

[@syntaxfm]

Thanks for the feedback! We’re experimenting still.

[@adokce]

supa hot fire