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?
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
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
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.
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.
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