[HN Gopher] Supabase open sourced their dashboard
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Supabase open sourced their dashboard
Author : zwarag
Score : 311 points
Date : 2021-12-01 07:33 UTC (15 hours ago)
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| Copenjin wrote:
| For those who need a clickable link to the project:
| https://supabase.com/
| jonplackett wrote:
| Been using Supabase for a while and love it. It's got that feel
| of a really well thought out service where things just work how
| you'd want it to and new features arrive that you actually want
| and make life easier. It's one of a handful of companies I saw
| and immediately wished I could invest in.
|
| This announcement doesn't really matter to me since I really like
| having a hosted service. But it's good to know it's future proof
| - ie if Supabase go out of business or a project takes off and I
| want to self host with all the good stuff then I can.
| goldforever wrote:
| Agree. Maybe they may consider going the crowdequity route for
| their next raise.
| ignoramous wrote:
| > _But it's good to know it's future proof - ie if Supabase go
| out of business or a project takes off and I want to self host
| with all the good stuff then I can._
|
| Until you dig into the code base and realise that self-hosting
| isn't something that is sustainable, at all, the minute you
| need a bug fixed, or run into a limitation, without the
| original authors or solution partners around to support your
| specific installation.
|
| Most proprietary software shops tend to have business
| continuity clauses and solution partners. So, on-paper, one
| could self-host those too in case their business goes under.
| csunbird wrote:
| I wanted to use supabase for one of my pet projects, but,
| unfortunately, the egress fee is just way to high, $0.09 per GB.
| I am not sure if it is viable for any serious project.
| krageon wrote:
| you pump more than a GB of data out of your db in a month?
| csunbird wrote:
| I might have as well, but the egress fee also applies to the
| object storage.
| keviv wrote:
| Agree. Else, they'd have been my default choice.
| kiwicopple wrote:
| can I ask which cloud provider you use?
|
| we're currently on AWS so it's a bit hard for us to price
| lower, at least until we go multi-cloud
| csunbird wrote:
| I suspected that you were using AWS as the cloud provider.
|
| I went with Hetzner instead, and I manage my servers by
| myself. I have been looking for providers in case that things
| do get serious with the project, as I do not have the
| experience in system administration, but I could not find any
| good offerings with reasonable egress rates, as the project
| does transfer large amounts of data.
| kiwicopple wrote:
| thanks for the feedback. Hertzner are a great option.
|
| I hope companies like cloudflare/backblaze/etc can continue
| making noise about the AWS egress rates to put pressure on
| them, although it looks like they will remain high for a
| while and so our hands are tied.
| deepu256 wrote:
| Thanks to cloudflare, they recently expanded the limits
| on the free plan.
|
| https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-free-tier-data-
| transfer...
|
| I think if Supabase allows us to attach our own S3
| accounts, then we can take advantage of the expanded Free
| tier
| cyberge99 wrote:
| R2 isn't really a separate cloud but it may be a potential
| option.
| kewp wrote:
| Just installed via the developer quickstart
| https://github.com/supabase/supabase/tree/master/studio#deve...
| but getting a connection refused error.
|
| I'm assuming it's because of the db. Any advice / guide on
| setting that up?
| kiwicopple wrote:
| sounds like the docker-compose was unable to start?
| firechickenbird wrote:
| No eslint?
| cercatrova wrote:
| Awesome, was waiting for when they'd open source the UI and not
| just the backend.
| ollerac wrote:
| They already did: https://ui.supabase.com/
| BrandiATMuhkuh wrote:
| I would really like to use supabase as an alternative for
| Firestore. Sadly, row level security on realtime, which is the
| killer feature of Firestore, does not exist.
| detaro wrote:
| They posted a blogpost announcing that a few minutes ago.
| kiwicopple wrote:
| we just released this:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29404222
| simonbarker87 wrote:
| Been using SupaBase for a couple of months now on a side project
| and it's very nice. I've used Firebase extensively and it's so
| nice to have a similar offering using SQL for the DB layer. Good
| to see them sticking to the open source ethos.
| arcturus17 wrote:
| Firebase has some strengths, but I profoundly dislike its NoSQL
| databases. I started learning web dev ~6 years ago with non-
| relational dbs but now I'm in the camp that 98% of new projects
| should start with a relational db. Eager to try Supabase on my
| next project.
| digianarchist wrote:
| The main problem with Firebase is the lack of search
| capabilities which is ironic considering Google is the parent
| company. The fact that they haven't shipped this is probably
| down to backing themselves into a corner with the DB
| architecture they've chosen.
|
| And still point customers to a competitors...
| https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/solutions/search
| simonbarker87 wrote:
| Ahhhhh! I had to make partial search indexes for anything I
| wanted to be searchable as the user typed, so infuriating
| and unbelievable
| picardo wrote:
| NoSQL was overhyped. SQL is awesome.
| [deleted]
| srini_reddy wrote:
| I don't know who designed their website, but I found it very hard
| for me to read the pricing section on my MBP.
| https://supabase.com/pricing
| kiwicopple wrote:
| We did a write-up on the tech stack and some of the approaches we
| considered for sharing code between our Platform and the Self-
| Hosted versions here:
| https://supabase.com/blog/2021/11/30/supabase-studio
|
| We aim to get these to parity with each other, excepting some
| billing/server management features.
|
| A big shout out to Sentry who do served as a good model for us
| (https://develop.sentry.dev/sentry-vs-getsentry/)
| thatguyagain wrote:
| How long until we get functions running? Absolutely love the
| product btw, can't make the switch until we have functions tho
| :)
| kiwicopple wrote:
| tbd on the timeline here - we know that there are already
| platforms (like Vercel, Netlify, Deno, CF Workers) doing
| amazing work here, so we're spending more effort on the
| under-served problems.
|
| Would love to know your use-case, or why you'd prefer
| Supabase as a Function provider over one of the existing
| players? It's helpful for us to design the system around any
| weaknesses/difficulties you're facing
| bluewalt wrote:
| For me, the BaaS philosophy is to simplify development by
| using an "all-batteries-included" platform. I know some
| people use Supabase just for the free postgres or other
| things, but I don't like to use multiple providers for a
| single simple project. That's why it makes no sense to me
| currently to use Supabase until there is no functions.
| digianarchist wrote:
| You, Ant and the others are killing it. Looking forward to the
| security updates coming to Realtime. I know that was a blocker
| for myself and a few others.
| kiwicopple wrote:
| thanks for the kind words. We just released realtime updates
| (about 20 mins ago) - we have a few launches this week and
| that's the one I'm most excited about
| digianarchist wrote:
| Link: https://supabase.com/blog/2021/12/01/realtime-row-
| level-secu...
| dsmmcken wrote:
| Any more details you are willing to share on how the shared
| code is imported and extended on the platform side?
|
| We have a similar split, and currently use lerna to publish a
| collection of individual packages that get imported and
| extended on the other side.
| kiwicopple wrote:
| we still have a lot of cleanup before I'd use this as a
| model, but the rough strategy we employed is:
| 1. Hide sensitive code behind an API 2. Open source
| everything else (regardless of Platform/Self-Hosted 3.
| Use env vars and feature flags to determine what is visually
| displayed
|
| The docker-compose for self-hosted is the same stack as every
| project on the Platform which helps.
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