Company
Date Published
Author
Paul Copplestone
Word count
934
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Here are the key points about Supabase's launch and growth: Supabase recently hit the top of Hacker News, stayed on the front page for over 24 hours, and has since been featured on the Stack Overflow podcast and scaled to over 1000 databases. The company's website saw a surge in visitors with 30,000 new site visitors and over 1400 signups in just seven days. Despite some initial challenges, Supabase's middleware and frontend services were surprisingly resilient, with the middleware being served from a single server that was initially intended for alpha testing. However, the company faced issues with cloud providers Digital Ocean, including hitting server limits and experiencing production errors, which ultimately led to a migration to AWS, where they are now utilizing the t3a instances, which have improved database startup times significantly.