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by brettnak 418 days ago
We're currently using supabase in production. I was already planning to leave them. I feel like it's close to good, but still really does have a _lot_ of bugs. It really doesn't feel like it's been tested thoroughly, and the documentation, while present, leaves a lot to be desired.

My experience of supabase really demonstrates to me that the ideals of all of the postgres layer technologies - postrest, realtime via wal, jwt auth in the db -, just don't make for an easy experience. It all works (mostly) but I find it more annoying than useful and have to work around it more often than I'd like. I suppose I'm old school, but just building the things that one needs is often more robust and less work than trying to plug into what they've provided.

I really don't know what they're going to do with a series D. It seems they now _have_ to go for a high-value exit, but I really don't see which company would provide that exit.

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I had similar experience with everything missing that final attention to detail and polish and having to write issues and ask other how they got past certain problems. I ended up switching to Pocketbase, and while it is not a complete or drop in replacement hosted service, it is light weight and approachable to feel comfortable that it can scale and be more stable long term.
You should try Convex. It’s a better, higher level abstraction than Supabase.