December 2020 Summaries

The Supabase team has made significant improvements to the performance of their dashboard, ensuring that it remains fast and responsive despite adding new features. They achieved this by establishing a baseline for performance, tracking bundle sizes with Next-bundle-analyzer, and using real user monitoring (RUM) tools like Sentry's performance monitoring product. The team also reduced JavaScript bundle size by choosing smaller modules, moving complex logic to the server, lazy loading code, and utilizing native browser APIs. Additionally, they improved Vercel's default caching and enabled Next.js Automatic Static Optimization. By developing a performance culture within their team, Supabase continues to maintain and improve upon these optimizations for a better user experience.

The Supabase dashboard has recently become more feature-rich, with a powerful SQL editor and an Airtable-like view of the database. To maintain good performance while adding new features, the team established a baseline by tracking bundle sizes using Next-bundle-analyzer and setting up Real User Monitoring (RUM) with Sentry. They then improved their JavaScript bundle size by switching to smaller modules like day-js and ajv, selectively importing functions from larger modules, moving complex logic to the server, and lazy loading certain components. Additionally, they used native browser APIs and optimized Vercel's default caching settings. The team also developed a performance culture by monitoring Sentry performance data and considering performance implications during library and tool choices. As a result, Supabase now has a respectable Core Web Vitals score and plans to continue reducing bundle sizes and implementing best practices for frontend performance.

Xendit, a leading payment gateway in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, has built a counter-fraud watchlist using Supabase to run automated checks against international sanctions lists. This helps verify the legitimacy of transactions and prevents delays on legitimate payments. The system was built and implemented within one week, leveraging Xendit's familiarity with Postgres technology. The solution has been in production for nine months without any issues.

TAYFA, a no-code website builder, was built in just seven days by its solo founder Sarup Banskota. Using Next.js and Vercel for the frontend, he initially used Firebase but switched to Supabase due to the need for self-hosting capabilities and sensible RESTful APIs. The current version of TAYFA also takes advantage of Supabase Auth. This allowed Sarup to focus on shipping frontends and quickly launch his product.

Monitoro, a web scraping service that notifies customers of changes on websites, has successfully built and scaled its product using Supabase and Svelte. In just one month, the company went from handling zero API requests to nearly one million per day. By choosing Supabase over other options like Firebase or Hasura, Monitoro was able to quickly launch version 2 of their product with real-time functionality while avoiding vendor lock-in and leveraging PostgreSQL's ecosystem. This allowed the team to focus on customer discovery and marketing, leading to rapid growth in their user base.

Supabase is partnering with Strive School, another YC Summer 20 alumnus, to teach open-source software development to aspiring software developers. Strive School aims to train the next generation of Computer Engineers and has designed a unique program called "Master-camp" that combines the depth of a master's degree with the pacing of a coding bootcamp. Supabase is an open-source Firebase alternative, and they will be working closely with Strive School to produce exclusive content for their students. They have also launched a Student Developer Pack in collaboration with Strive School, which includes free access to Supabase services for two years, access to their Slack community channel, founder office hours, and limited edition swag.

Supabase, an open-source Firebase alternative, has partnered with Strive School to teach the next generation of software developers about open source software development. Strive School is a program that combines the depth of a master's degree with the pacing of a coding bootcamp and focuses on full-stack Web Engineering and AI Engineering. Supabase will be working closely with Strive School in the coming months to produce exclusive content for their code school students, including a Student Developer Pack offering free access to Supabase services for two years.

In the last nine months, Supabase has made significant progress towards its beta release. Key updates include adding user management features, enhancing SQL Editor capabilities with Monaco editor integration, and launching a status page for tracking platform performance metrics. Additionally, Supabase completed a security audit by DigitalXRAID and introduced email confirmations for signups. Community engagement during Hacktoberfest was robust, featuring collaborations with Vercel, Stripe, and others. Upcoming events include a big announcement on December 3rd and participation in the Open Core Summit on December 16th. To get started with Supabase, visit their dashboard or follow them on social media platforms.

In November 2020, Supabase announced several updates and features in their Alpha version. These include adding users manually from the dashboard, performing admin functions on existing users, an enhanced SQL Editor with Monaco editor functionality, a status page tracking uptime and latency of the platform, and completion of a security audit by DigitalXRAID. They also introduced email confirmations for signups and updated their benchmarking suite to include more realistic workloads. Foreign keys can now be set/edited/removed via the table editor. During Hacktoberfest, they had an exciting collaboration with Vercel x Stripe x Supabase and received contributions from various developers. They also announced a big announcement on December 3rd and participation in the Open Core Summit on December 16th. Users can start using Supabase today by visiting their website or following them on Twitter, YouTube, GitHub, Discord, and other platforms.