Supabase

What do you like best about the product?

I like Supabase because it is easy to use and helps me build applications faster. I like that it provides database, authentication, storage, and APIs in one place. It is simple and good for small and large projects.

What do you dislike about the product?

I dislike that Supabase can be a little difficult for beginners when working with advanced database features. Sometimes the documentation is not very clear, and I need to spend more time to understand some things.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Supabase helps me solve backend problems like database, login, storage, and APIs. It gives many things in one place, so I can build my projects faster and with less code. It also saves my time and makes backend development easier.

What do you like best about the product?

What I like most about Supabase is how quickly it lets you go from an idea to production. The generous free tier and intuitive onboarding make it easy to spin up a fully featured PostgreSQL backend in just a few minutes, which delivers great ROI for both prototypes and apps that need to scale.

The dashboard UI/UX is excellent. The table view and built-in SQL editor keep database management straightforward, and the AI assistant inside the SQL editor saves me a lot of time when I’m drafting more complex queries.

I also lean heavily on its native integrations, from seamless Auth and Storage to Edge Functions and pgvector for AI embeddings. Real-time subscriptions and direct Postgres queries feel fast and rock-solid in day-to-day use.

What do you dislike about the product?

While Supabase is fantastic overall, I’ve run into a few minor pain points.

Project pausing on the free tier: Free projects automatically pause after about a week of inactivity, and the wake-up time can take a minute or two. That’s a bit frustrating when I’m developing intermittently.

Row-Level Security (RLS) learning curve: Writing and debugging more complex RLS policies directly in SQL has a steep learning curve, especially for developers coming from traditional backend ORMs. It’s also easy to get policies wrong in ways that can negatively affect query performance.

Local development and migrations: The CLI works, but keeping local migrations fully in sync with what’s in the cloud dashboard can feel a little clunky compared to dedicated ORM migration tools (like Prisma).

Support: On the free and lower-tier plans, support is largely community-driven (forums/Discord), which can be slower when you’re troubleshooting edge cases.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before Supabase, spinning up a new project meant stitching together several disconnected services: running a standalone PostgreSQL database, integrating third-party auth (like Auth0 or Firebase), configuring S3 buckets for storage, and writing a lot of boilerplate REST APIs.

How it benefits me:
Accelerated time-to-market: Supabase bundles Auth, Database, Storage, and auto-generated APIs in one unified platform. That consolidation cuts my backend development time from weeks to just a couple of hours.
Unified AI stack: Built-in pgvector removes the need for a separate vector database (like Pinecone) for AI/RAG workflows. Being able to store embeddings right alongside relational data in Postgres significantly reduces architectural complexity.
No vendor lock-in: Unlike proprietary BaaS solutions (like Firebase), Supabase is open-source and built on standard PostgreSQL. I still get modern developer conveniences without giving up the ability to export data or run raw SQL queries.
Cost efficiency: Rather than paying for 3–4 separate microservices, everything is consolidated, which translates into huge ROI and lower monthly infrastructure bills.

What do you like best about the product?

Getting a real Postgres database up and running, with auth and auto-generated APIs, takes minutes instead of days. I don’t have to stitch together separate services for login, storage, and the database—it’s all managed in one dashboard, and the realtime subscriptions work right out of the box.

What do you dislike about the product?

Edge Functions can have noticeable cold start delays, which is annoying for anything latency-sensitive. Documentation is solid for the basics but thins out fast once you're doing more advanced Postgres work like custom triggers or row-level security edge cases.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used to spend early project time just wiring up auth, a database, and storage separately before writing any real features. Now that setup takes an afternoon, and the auto-generated APIs mean less boilerplate backend code — we get to the actual product work much faster.

What do you like best about the product?

I love how Supabase helps us store large data in simpler tables and views in normalized tables, making it easier to query complex tables and information or make data requests directly from the app. Its easy-to-use nature is a big plus, and I appreciate how easily it can be integrated with Claude. The UI that lets us view the schema and data directly is incredibly helpful, enabling us to see, cross-verify entries, and find anomalies. The Claude integration allows us to push migrations directly to the database and keep track of them.

What do you dislike about the product?

As I'm working on an app, sometimes external collaborators from different departments need access to analyze the database. The access part seems to cause problems; it may have a reliable option, but it needs more information. In the beginning, the UI took a bit of time to know how it could be leveraged and used properly.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Supabase to store large data in simpler tables and easily query complex information. Its UI lets us view schema and data directly for cross-verifying entries. The Claude integration helps push database migrations and track them efficiently.

What do you like best about the product?

Easy to use, well integrated with the main AI LLMs, and offered at a very good price. I used Claude and chatGPT connectors and it was fast and easy, works great

What do you dislike about the product?

It’s difficult to use if you don’t have some technical experience.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Free, fast and easy database for AI projects with a lot of vibe coding tools