[mindwok]

The product story is that people want to build apps and naturally find themselves having to handle:

- remote state

- authoritative logic that can't run solely on the user's device because you can't trust it

- authentication

each of which is annoying when you're focused on building the user-facing app experience. Supabase solves all three without you needing to touch any infrastructure. The self-hosting thing just provides insurance that users are not completely locked in to their platform, which is a big concern when you're outsourcing basically your entire backend stack.