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21 facts from 1 episode, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2020
Supabase's original tagline was real-time Postgres, and the founders changed it to open-source Firebase alternative after the original drew no interest.
“No one cared. No one cared when we had a website. And so, like, we were like, let's change it to open-source Firebase alternative”
2020
Supabase spent the first week of its Y Combinator batch migrating about 800 databases from DigitalOcean to AWS.
“And so we spent the first week of being in YC, migrating 800 databases to a different cloud, which, you know, if you've ever migrated one database, you know how painful it is.”
2024
Ant Wilson says Supabase decided to lean into vibe coding after seeing a customer earn about $10,000 within days of launching a product.
“as soon as we saw someone earn, like, I think it was $10,000 within the first few days of launching their product, we were like, Wow, this is this is real.”
2026
Supabase announced Supabase Compute, a long-running serverless service that runs in the same private network as the customer's database.
“Supabase Compute, which is you can run anything. It's long running, it's serverless. It is running in the same private network as your database, so it's co-located”
2026
Supabase acquired the OrioleDB technology, paid for its patent, and released it free under the Apache 2 license.
“So we actually acquired the technology, continue to develop it, and then we paid for the patent and are now giving it away for free.”
2026
Supabase tested OrioleDB with the Postgres regression suite, Antithesis, nightly TPC-C benchmarks and Jepsen to check that it cannot lose data.
“put it through PG regress, full compatibility with Postgres, Antithesis, we put it through TPCC nightly benchmarks and Jepsen to make sure that it basically can never lose data.”
2026
Supabase ran one thousand sequential failovers on Multigres without losing any data.
“And we actually ran it, uh, again, through very rigorous testing, and we've done a thou- uh, one thousand sequential failovers, and it didn't lose any data.”
2026
Supabase says it launches about 5 million databases per month on its platform.
“At the moment, we launch about 5 million databases on our platform every single month.”
2026
Supabase announced that it acquired Turso to help power databases for AI agents.
“And so, actually, tomorrow, and when this is announced, it would have come out where we have announced that we've acquired Turso to help us power agentic databases.”
2026
Supabase plans to keep the Turso brand after the acquisition, with Turso focused on SQLite.
“So we're a acquiring them, and we're actually gonna keep the Turso brand. So Turso's gonna focus on SQLite”
2026
Supabase announced Capital G, Alphabet's investment arm, as a new investment partner.
“tomorrow as well, we're announcing that we're bringing on a new investment partner, which is Capital G.”
2026
Paul Copplestone says about 60% of every Y Combinator batch uses Supabase.
“we have 60% of every YC batch use Supabase.”
2026
Supabase pays salespeople based on the extra account growth they cause, which Paul Copplestone says is about 100% above a control group's growth.
“just getting on a call and helping people out, their account then grows 125%. So that 100% uplift, the incremental uplift, is what we compensate our salespeople.”
2026
Supabase has a product called Control Tower that lets enterprises monitor a fleet of databases.
“So we've got this product called Control Tower, which allows enterprises to have monitor a fleet of databases.”
2026
Paul Copplestone says Postgres projects normally keep a migrations folder as a historical log, which is hard for agents to read, so Supabase added declarative schema files.
“generally how you operate with Postgres is you have a migration file every time you make a change, you add a file to this migrations folder, and it's like a historical log.”
2026
Paul Copplestone says Supabase currently spends about $300,000 per month on AI tools, for roughly 450 people.
“So currently, we spend about 300 k per month.”
Undated
Supabase Edge Functions are powered by Deno and have roughly a two-second execution limit.
“So we offer a product called Edge Functions, and Edge Functions are powered by Deno, and they have basically a two-second limit.”
Undated
Paul Copplestone says Supabase has seen three chapters of AI-driven growth, the first being vector embeddings.
“there's been three chapters of AI. So the first chapter was, um, embeddings.”
Undated
Supabase promoted using Postgres as a vector database through an extension developed by independent developer Andrew Kane.
“and you can use Postgres as a vector database. And Andrew Kane, a a completely independent guy has developed this awesome extension”
Undated
Ant Wilson says early AI agents put image data into Postgres and turned off row-level security to make projects work, until Lovable wrote skills to stop it.
“the agents were, like, trying to shove image data into Postgres. You know, they were turning off RLS in order to get their projects to work”
Undated
Ant Wilson says community member Gary Abbott answered about 20,000 questions in the Supabase Discord over six years.
“Gary has answered, uh, 20,000 in the last six years, 20,000, uh, questions in the Supabase Discord.”
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