Supabase

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “It doesnt really cost much, if you do SDD and do severless development; offloading your DB to supabase”

  POSITIVE · price · Reddit · 2026-08-15

• “Sign-in via Google is broken - it redirects back to localhost from Supabase”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-07-10

• “vibe-coded Supabase apps are launching with RLS totally disabled just because LLMs consistently forget to include it. I got so frustrated seeing these massive security holes”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Reddit · 2026-07-06

• “Supabase's table editor is genuinely usable day-to-day for basic stuff like viewing, filtering, inserting rows and most Airtable migrants can get around it without touching SQL at all initially”

  MIXED · ease of use · n8n_community · 2026-06-30

• “I currently use Supabase to avoid having to set up my own user auth on Workers, but I would much prefer to use D1 etc.”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-25

• “I absolutely abhorred having to make postgres functions to do anything remotely non-trivial on Supabase”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-05

• “how easy Supabase makes these things. You can describe your data needs and it'll use AI to generate the table and RLS policies”

  MIXED · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-18

• “My initial experience with supabase was incredible in that sense: any client-side framework I wanted, deployed statically while still integrating with full Postgres, for free!”

  MIXED · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-08

• “we currently don't even need paid tiers of supabase since our software is so small”

  MIXED · price · Hacker News · 2026-05-07

• “Supabase adds a huge amount of value. The fact that I don't have to code half of things that I otherwise would is great to start something.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-05

• “Supabase isn't WORM compliant so it is hard to ensure data doesn't get deleted”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-25

• “I am using Supabase at the moment, and see they have a hard cap now.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-16

• “Great point! I had similar experience building my SaaS with Supabase.”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-04-09

• “We were so used to the clean, no-bs-scaling-cost nature of Supabase, as well as how easy it is to configure.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-01

• “I'm excited to see that Stripe users can finally use Supabase services in a seamless way. For new Supabase users, there is no need to leave the CLI. One command, and you'll have a brand new Supabase account, including a new Supabase resource provisioned just for you. This means that you'll be able to not only use a PG database from the get-go, but it also comes with Storage and Authentication for free.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-26

• “I'm excited to see that Stripe users can finally use Supabase services in a seamless way”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-26

• “Supabase RLS + service_role key es muy potente para separar acceso público vs admin”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-18

• “Supabase's typical workflow collapses it down to one layer pretty quickly”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-02-13

• “Supabase puts it as the only thing standing between the public internet and your data. PostgREST translates HTTP straight into SQL, so if you get a policy wrong (or forget one), game over. Behind a normal backend, a bad RLS policy is a defense-in-depth failure. In Supabase's model, it's a breach. That's a huge difference”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-02-11

• “Replit with vercel starter templates and supabase is amazing. I even have it do all my migrations and RLS policies.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-09

• “Supabase self-host is another nightmare in itself. Just the sheer amount of configs needs (through the .env file) is insane. They have intentionally made it so difficult to configure.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-12-04

• “Supabase (PostgreSQL) – Database, auth, realtime, storage in one”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-11-23

• “wasting 200 credits and building a complex app without connecting to Supabase first. it turned into a mess and left me really frustrated”

  NEGATIVE · youtube · 2025-06-03

• “All deployments returned a static {"code":401,"message":"Missing authorization header"} error, no matter what code was deployed. Function code was not being updated or executed. (Suspected platform bug or cache issue, already escalated to Supabase support.)”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · n8n_community · 2025-05-31

• “hitting the supabase api directly is around 650ms response time”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Reddit · 2025-05-17