Understanding why Supabase is the stack you want

Talking about an awesome product is one thing. Understanding its history of success is equally important, as this paves the way for the future that you will invest your time and effort into. Also, that same history is part of the reason why it resonates with the principles of many developers, as well as why it isn’t just yet another Software as a Service (SaaS) with a short life span but one of the most promising tools that the web has seen in recent years.

In 2019, Paul Copplestone, the CEO of Supabase, worked on a Realtime extension for Postgres. This was part of a migration, in his former company, to move away from Google’s Firebase to Postgres. As this gained popularity, he asked his friend Ant Wilson if he’d be open to building an open-source company with the Postgres database at its core.

Ant agreed, and they came up with the name Supabase, choosing this due to the planned “super database”...