Supabase

Supabase is a software company that describes its product as the Postgres development platform, a hosted backend that developers use to build web, mobile and AI applications. Every project starts with a full Postgres database, and the platform adds authentication, instant APIs and realtime subscriptions on top of it. This places the company in the backend-as-a-service category, where developers rent managed infrastructure for data, users and files instead of running their own servers, though Supabase builds that offering around a standard relational database rather than a proprietary data store.

Beyond the database, the product set includes Edge Functions for running custom code without managing servers, Storage for large files such as videos and images, Realtime for data synchronization in multiplayer experiences, and Vector for storing and searching machine learning embeddings. Authentication ties into the database through Row Level Security, so access rules for user data live in Postgres itself, and the company presents its tools as usable individually or together as one integrated platform. Its stated aim of letting teams build in a weekend and scale to millions speaks to both early-stage projects and production workloads, and starter templates cover frameworks such as Next.js, Flutter and Expo.

The company reports more than 10,000,000 registered developers and over 100,000 GitHub stars, and its customer stories include AI app builder Lovable, eXp Realty, Phoenix Energy, Chatbase and Rally. Supabase has been open source from the start, so developers can read, contribute to and self-host the code, which addresses a common concern about vendor lock-in with hosted backends. The company operates fully remote, with a strong affinity for open source maintainers and former founders, and its engineering team includes developers from AWS, Google, Palantir, Stripe and other YC companies.