PostgreSQL
Software
Foundation for Supabase's database offering; chosen for its open-source nature, community contributions, and long-term dominance potential
"Postgres was trending. It wasn't the most popular database at the time but now it is, so it was a good bet. And the other thing I really liked about it is if you are going to build a database company, you have to have a good reputation. Postgres kind of had..."
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Centralized data storage for all YC operations
"all of that software sits on one Postgress database that has everything that's important to YC's world in it"
"I had it push it into a Postgress database that I on the fly created using the railway API"