No. 047 · 2020 · Singapore

Supabase

Took boring old Postgres. Became the vibe-coder default.

Every vibe-coded app's backend

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Make my startup a legend
  1. 1 2020. Two founders, one idea.
  2. 2 Firebase is great. Until you want to leave.
  3. 3 Postgres is 30 years old and very good.
  4. 4 Add a nice dashboard. Auth. Storage.
  5. 5 Hacker News lands. Then keeps landing.
  6. 6 Then vibe coding happens.
  7. 7 Every AI builder picks it by default.
  8. 8 Boring tech wins again.
Founders
Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson
Founded
2020, Singapore
What they do
An open-source backend built on Postgres.

The story

Supabase set out to offer what Firebase offers, using plain Postgres you can take with you. Auth, storage and a good dashboard followed. AI app builders then adopted it as their default backend.