Question for programmers: Do you use Supabase?
I know there are a bunch of posts about Supabase on indie hackers, but I wanted to add a twist. Programmers who are fully capable of quickly writing your own backend (let's say your day job is in backend engineering, or you have already written a few APIs), do you use Supabase? Why or why not?
I wrote about 10% of my backend so far in Node and it's working perfectly fine and I'm going at a great pace. I'm wondering if I should drop the 10% and build it with Supabase or will I hit roadblocks or frustrations that would make me wish that I didn't?
I don't use it but I get why it is there and will maybe use it in the future.
However, it hardly depends. If you're familiar with a certain tech-stack already and can build your product with that I'll definitely go for that.
But the great thing about Supabase is really that you don't have the overhead of handling any infrastructure. Same as with serverless services but this time even without the overhead of creating and securing an AWS account.
The pricing also looks very nice just the pause for a week would make me a bit anxious :D
I for example like building everything within my AWS ecosystem because it interacts together nicely and is most of the times really cheap or for free in the first year and I've built already lots of stuff there.
The initial learning cost is definitely high so I wouldn't suggest this.
Hope that helps :)