Paul Copplestone
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"Everything that has ever happened at Supabase has been written down on Slack, Notion, and everything. Every decision that is happening is happening written down. So for us to say to an agent, 'Hey, what was that decision that we made 6 years ago?' — we can actually prompt it and it'll find it in Slack even though it was right at this point. Most people have agents who know everything for the last 6 months. We know everything from the last six years from the start."
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"If you do some basic arithmetic, let's say with ChatGPT, I think they said they've got 1.2 billion weekly active users. And let's say all of them want to launch something every month, that's 1.2 billion databases a month."
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"And it turns out that was exactly the right move for 2024 when the likes of Bolt and Lovable and all of these people started building on top of us."
"We thought we were getting DDoSed by a bunch of companies which were launching all these application databases, and the two main ones were Bolt and Lovable. We looked at Lovable and tried it, and the apps that it was building back then were not that great."
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"From my point of view, companies like Stripe, for example, they have this real... a founder who just cares about almost focusing on what the new ways of building are."
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"Parse and Firebase, I liked both of those companies. And it's funny these waves, right? Because they did the backend, and Firebase was acquired by Google, Parse by Meta."
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"And actually, it's compatible with SQLite as well. I think SQLite's a phenomenal database."
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"And like kudos to Heroku. I think they popularized Postgres."
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"And we made an acquisition recently, Turso. They've got an architecture that's compatible with Postgres. And actually, it's compatible with SQLite as well."
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"Yeah. Yeah. Parse and Firebase, I liked both of those companies. ... In some ways I think they blazed the trail for us to come along and actually have a legitimate database business."
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"And it turns out that was exactly the right move for 2024 when the likes of Bolt and Lovable and all of these people started building on top of us."
"The two main ones were Bolt and Lovable, and the Supabase for platforms product was created because of the success with Lovable and Bolt."
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"Our initial customer base — this is why we applied for YC — was high-growth startups. The ideal ICP was someone who is venture-backed and was likely to grow fast, who happens to be a Y Combinator company."
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"I actually timed how long it took to launch an RDS instance on AWS and then connect a tool and then insert a row, and it was something like 8 and a half minutes. We decided we have to get that at least under a minute for us to get time to value."
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"Compounding Claude Code and Codex — I think we can now measure 60% of databases get launched by an agent, but more likely it's like 90%, and it's in the millions every month."
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"We started counterpositioning against RDS and Aurora. They already had these offerings — what are they going to take? And Supabase is actually a stack of tools all working well together; for them to do this it's not the same as hosting a Redis instance."
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"Somehow, MongoDB convinced everyone that NoSQL was supposed to be like an amazing way to store your data."
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