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Dear supabase. Please don’t get bought out by anyone and ruined. I’ve built too many websites with a supabase backend now to go back.
by jonplackett 3y ago
Dear supabase. Please don’t get bought out by anyone and ruined. I’ve built too many websites with a supabase backend now to go back.
- kiwicopple 3y agowe don't have any plans to get bought. we only have plans to keep pushing open standards/tools - hopefully we have enough of a track record here that it doesn't feel like lip service
- robertlagrant 3y agoAs long as you make it so if you do get bought a team of you can always fork and move on, it's about the best anyone can hope for.
- jonplackett 3y agoAbsolutely. I am so impressed with SB. It’s like you read my mind and then make what I’ll need before I realise. (This is not a paid promotion)
- kiwicopple 3y ago>like you read my mind we receive a lot of community feedback and ultimately there are only a few "primitives" developers need to solve 90% of their problems I think we're inching closer to the complete set of primitives which can be used to combine into second-order primitives (eg: queues/search/maps can all be "wrappers" around the primitives we already provide)
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- jonplackett 3y agoThat's a neat way of thinking about it. Thanks for an awesome product. Please also never get bought or make plans to in the future, or if you really, really, really have to then please not by google.
- jerrygenser 3y agoI can believe there are no plans, right now. But having raised over $100mm, the VCs will want to liquidate their holdings eventually. They have to answer to their LPs after all, and be able to raise their next funds. The primary options I can think of that are not full acquisition are: - company buys back stock - VC sells on secondary market - IPO The much more common and more likely option for these VCs to make the multiple or home run on their return is going to be to 10x+ their money by having a first or second tier cloud provider buy you. I think there's a 10% chance that a deal with Google is done in the future, so their portfolio has Firebase for NoSQL and Firebase for SQL.
- jchanimal 3y agoHaving founded a database company that IPO'd (Couchbase) and seeing the kinds of customer relationships Supabase is making, an IPO seems a reasonable outcome.
- spxneo 3y agowell before there was supabase I would use Firebase so it would serve Google well if they matched what supabase is doing or bought them out
- mort96 3y agoIs it even up to you? Isn't it up to your Board of Directors (i.e investors) in the end?
- kiwicopple 3y agowe (the founders) control the board
- jacob_rezi 3y agoWho controls the board, controls the company
- asciii 3y agothe data must flow!
- tap-snap-or-nap 3y agoplans* *Subject to change
- gherkinnn 3y agoThis is my biggest reservation towards Supabase. Google bought Firebase in 2014. I've seen Vercel run Nextjs in to the ground and fuck up their pricing for some short-term gains. And Figma almost got bought by Adobe. I have a hard time trusting products with heavy VC backing.
- paradite 3y agoI think Vercel and Next.js are built by the same group of people, the same people who made Now.sh, started the company (Zeit), then changed product name to Now.sh, then changed company and product name to Vercel.
- cqqxo4zV46cp 3y agoYes. That doesn’t mean that they haven’t ran it into the ground.
- paradite 3y agoTell me about it. My simple SSG Next.js static site loads much slower than my Jekyll site on GitHub pages. And I can't figure out how to improve its speed or disable the "ISG" feature that I believe is to be blamed for the poor performance.
- eropple 3y agoNot defending NextJS, I'm pretty out on it myself, but ISG requires a server to run. It pregenerates static content for defined pages and serves that until revalidating. If you've built a fully static bundle, nothing exists that would handle that incremental/revalidating logic.
- paradite 3y agoI understand that ISG requires a server (Node.js runtime) to run it, that's why I want to disable it for my SSG Next.js static site, but I can't figure out how. I just want static hosting like S3+Cloudfront which is much faster.
- f18m 3y agoNever used Supabase before but I'm very much comfortable with their underlying stack. I use a combination of postgres, PostgREST, PLv8 and Auth0 to achieve nearly the same thing.
- pbronez 3y agoI was unfamiliar with PLv8, found this: “”” PLV8 is a trusted Javascript language extension for PostgreSQL. It can be used for stored procedures, triggers, etc. PLV8 works with most versions of Postgres, but works best with 13 and above, including 14, [15], and 16. “”” https://plv8.github.io/ https://plv8.github.io/
- foerster 3y agoI'm a bit terrified of this as well. I have built a profitable product on the platform, and it were to drastically change or go away, I'd be hosed.