Blixsz

Quite ironic that the title of the blogpost, “Accessible but never boring”, is completely unreadable to me because of the horrible font.

If it's somehow able to combine the functionalities of those separate products that would be pretty great actually!

I’m not saying it’s a bug. But I wouldn’t call it a feature either, but rather an obstacle in the way of a better/easier/faster/more enjoyable developer experience.

True. And to be clear I’m not arguing to reinvent it, but rather to build on top of it. SQL and traditional RDBMS are extremely powerful, but also vast, complex and difficult to master. They have for many of us a rather painful learning curve that could potentially be taken away by a product/service that creates the right kind of abstraction. In my opinion supabase does however not go far enough in creating this abstraction.

For one thing the fact that you can't really properly use Supabase (apart from some very basic functionality) without having at least some knowledge of SQL, postgres and databases in general. IMO you'd even need fairly in-depth SQL knowledge to understand the Supabase docs and examples.

Broadly speaking: a developer-centric Airtable. A low/no-code environment to create and manage your database combined with a top-notch SDK that is automatically generated and easily accesible from within the UI. The idea being that a frontend developer or hobbyist with no backend/database/sql knowledge whatsoever could easily get a properly functioning database up and running for a (fairly) complex app.

I see supabase as a missed opportunity to innovate in a space that desperately needs it. It could have been a product that fundamentaly reimagined the developer experience of working with a database. Instead they opted to mostly stick to the existing sql paradigm combined with some firebase-mimicking features. So what they end up with is a service that offers some marginal improvements over other, established database services but nothing truly game-changing.