Dave Copeland May 19, 2023

I am using Supabase for a very small project and everything in here rings true. I have even more issues that seem fundamental to their design. I can’t understand exactly who they are targeting. Would never pay for it.

“Migrating from Supabase” https://blog.val.town/blog/migrating-from-supabase

Migrating from Supabase

In the last couple weeks, we've migrated Val Town away from Supabase to a simpler database setup at Render. We’ve gotten a few questions about this, so we wanted to share what motivated the move, what we learned, and how we pulled it off. Supabase is an enormously successful product with a lot of happy users, but we ended up having a lot of problems getting to scale to our team's needs. Your mileage may vary, but we hope our experience is a useful data point.

Migrating from Supabase
Show threadAaron Jensen
@davetron5000 from that article: “…a total of 11 Docker containers connected together” this should cause any developer to full stop and reconsider their choices. We aren’t there yet as an industry (we are actively slipping back, I’d say). Frankly, the entire premise of it should be enough to know to avoid it.
May 20, 2023 at 7:11pmWeb
Show threadDave Copeland May 20, 2023
@aaronjensen I will say that being able to run their entire proprietary stack locally is nice and allowed me to not have to develop in prod, but I’m also not surprised that it won’t scale past one dev on one small project.
Show threadAaron JensenMay 20, 2023
@davetron5000 indeed. It’s often so that complexity needs be dealt with with additional complexity.