[BoorishBears]

Not really a confusing story: it's a PaaS that wants to beat fears of becoming another Parse (https://www.willowtreeapps.com/craft/parse-shutdown-what-it-...)

Realistically 99% of the users would still be screwed if they ever shut down, regardless of if it's open (see: Parse)... but it gives people a some confidence to hear they're building on a platform that they could (strictly in theory) spin up their own instance of should a similar rug pull ever occur

[tough]

They have also been giving back to postgres some of their extra work, and also their real time stuff i think is on erlang?

I agree you might prefer to choose the stack yourself, but for total n00bs and vibe coders supabase is a great start / boilerplate vs say the MEAN stack that was a hit 5y ago