14 engineers on Hacker News describe using Supabase first-hand: 1 endorse it, 3 regret it, 5 are mixed.
“We had a pretty bad experience with it on a NextJS app and had to gut it out”
regret · production · atonse · 2025-04-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I tried using supabase to back a vercel project. It was far too slow so we switched back to postgresql included with vercel.”
regret · personal · alexnewman · 2024-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We're pretty satisfied with Supabase as an open source project, but not as satisfied with Supabase hosting.”
mixed · production · jmeyer2k · 2024-04-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we're severely hobbled by having to play with a couple of architectural choices forced on us with Supabase and Supabase Auth.”
regret · production · atonse · 2024-04-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Supabase sql based row level permissions where I still need to right code and then verify it”
mixed · production · yoeven · 2023-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“That's a concerning design choice for my industry (healthcare).”
mixed · personal · claytongulick · 2023-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I am using Supabase in a hobby-level project that's "in production"... Overall, no issues or complaints.”
endorse · personal · gorbypark · 2023-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The local development & database migration story is Supabase's biggest weakness. I hate having to do migrations live in prod.”
mixed · production · omeze · 2023-05-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using supabase a lot over the last few months and the #1 glaring wart on an otherwise pretty good system is the lack of aggregates”
mixed · personal · SOLAR_FIELDS · 2022-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I did a lot of custom work on components (like integrating the Supabase API and custom Auth for RLS support)”
neutral · production · 0.25 yr · addisonj · 2023-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“that originally started out as forked Supabase realtime”
neutral · production · cpursley · 2023-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we're[0] using pgvector via supabase in prod and we've had 0 issues.”
neutral · production · mritchie712 · 2023-06-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For supabase, we use soft-tiers so that developers aren't caught by surprise on their usage tiers”
neutral · production · kiwicopple · 2021-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We're currently developing a Supabase app that's backed by PostgREST.”
neutral · production · pzduniak · 2021-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?