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Maybe it's been discussed before but since it's a VC backed company, what's their business model? They raised a ton of money. How do they plan on getting that

Maybe it's been discussed before but since it's a VC backed company, what's their business model? They raised a ton of money. How do they plan on getting that back?

replygirl 4y ago
their whole thing seems to be to capitalize on rightful faang skepticism to become the default paas over firebase. the model is same as any other paas. going off my network it appears to be working, but making the whole sell "we're open source" makes me wonder if it'll still be a leader in 5-10 years
swyx 4y ago
its brought up every time supa is on hn. reasonable qtn but here you go https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32440018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32440018
- rglover 4y ago
  Your answer didn't answer anything and was a bit terse. Their question was valid. It looks like the answer is that they're charging some sort of licensing fee per project using Supabase or that they have a hosted option for people who don't want to run their own Supabase instance(s): https://supabase.com/pricing https://supabase.com/pricing.
  - kiwicopple 4y ago
    supabase ceo here - you're right about the hosted option, but we don't charge any license fees. Supabase is very liberally licensed (MIT, Apache2, PostgreSQL, depending on the tool), and we don't plan to pursue any revenue from licensing. We make enough money from database hosting. hope that clears things up a bit
kiwicopple 4y ago
supabase ceo here. we have a hosted platform - you can sign up and spin up a postgres database, and we charge you $25/month (+ additional usage over a certain quota). This model is proving to be fine for us. It's very common for developers to pay for a database, especially a full Postgres database (more-so than say, a frontend hosting solution). We have a free tier too, where we pause the database if it is unused for a week. This good for the planet, and our bottom-line
- nkmnz 4y ago
  Where does the actual hosting happen? AWS?
  - kiwicopple 4y ago
    yes, just aws for now.
cercatrova 4y ago
Firebase clone but open source, with hosted options. It's a very valuable value proposition that many people including myself are looking for.

Maybe it's been discussed before but since it's a VC backed company, what's their business model? They raised a ton of money. How do they plan on getting that back?

replygirl 4y ago

their whole thing seems to be to capitalize on rightful faang skepticism to become the default paas over firebase. the model is same as any other paas. going off my network it appears to be working, but making the whole sell "we're open source" makes me wonder if it'll still be a leader in 5-10 years

swyx 4y ago

its brought up every time supa is on hn. reasonable qtn but here you go https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32440018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32440018

rglover 4y ago
Your answer didn't answer anything and was a bit terse. Their question was valid. It looks like the answer is that they're charging some sort of licensing fee per project using Supabase or that they have a hosted option for people who don't want to run their own Supabase instance(s): https://supabase.com/pricing https://supabase.com/pricing.
- kiwicopple 4y ago
  supabase ceo here - you're right about the hosted option, but we don't charge any license fees. Supabase is very liberally licensed (MIT, Apache2, PostgreSQL, depending on the tool), and we don't plan to pursue any revenue from licensing. We make enough money from database hosting. hope that clears things up a bit

kiwicopple 4y ago

supabase ceo here. we have a hosted platform - you can sign up and spin up a postgres database, and we charge you $25/month (+ additional usage over a certain quota). This model is proving to be fine for us. It's very common for developers to pay for a database, especially a full Postgres database (more-so than say, a frontend hosting solution). We have a free tier too, where we pause the database if it is unused for a week. This good for the planet, and our bottom-line

nkmnz 4y ago
Where does the actual hosting happen? AWS?
- kiwicopple 4y ago
  yes, just aws for now.

cercatrova 4y ago

Firebase clone but open source, with hosted options. It's a very valuable value proposition that many people including myself are looking for.