This team ships, every few years, there is a company HN loves, few years ago it was CloudFlare/Stripe, Supabase feels to be in the same class. Linear as well.
I'm not sure I would class fly.io as well-written technical blogs. Well-written yes, technical no.
I used to think the fly.io ones were good, but having read a good few of them I've found they follow the same repetitive structure:
- Very light on detail (fly.io blogs are carefully written to *sound* like they're giving you detail, but in reality it's all a 50,000ft view, and a lightweight one at that. Given the length of their average blog post, they could and should do better.).
- Constantly going off-tangent, whether randomly talking about sandwich fillings, food-types, or just a paragraph with the author's rant about how they dislike a particular technology. The first couple of times its cute, but after that, not so much ...
Would you mind sharing specifics about the first bullet? What's the last post you read you thought could have gone deeper? We definitely want to go deep, some of our posts are better than others.
Cloudflare and Stripe have just reached that stage where there isn't much to hype about. They're now dealing with problems that are gnarly, as opposed to "we just launched a storage service!" Not to diminish Supabase, Fly, etc. and their tremendous work, it's just a completely different lane of expectations.
To me its more than just release new features and improvements (though Cloudflare could do well improving the speed around this a bit, a nice cadence around services and a public-ish roadmap would be ideal IMO).
More importantly, I think Cloudflare, Supabase and Linear are innovating and really nice to use, generally speaking[0]
[0]: they all have edge cases and what not, and sometimes failures, don't get me wrong
Yeah, supabase is great. I think if they could get the auth story a little more polished (it "works", but its definitely weak/buggy in some aspects compared to alternatives, and hard to use), and made some advanced use cases with Prisma easier to do (or better documented) since that's such a common pairing, they'd be even easier to recommend.
Right now I still use Supabase because I think they're a solid "Postgresql as a service" offering, but they're just SO CLOSE to being so much more than that. They have all the pieces, they just don't all work quite the way folks expect. They'll get there, I'm sure.