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The best platform to build serverless apps on in 2023

Kinanee Samson on August 26, 2023

Supabase a project tagged "The open-source Firebase killer" is an open-source alternative to Firebase. A SAS platform from Google. Supabase Like Fi...
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Charlie J Smotherman

Supabase as a service is great but their pricing plan makes it so I won't use it.

With the free tier if there is no activity in you database for 7 days they inactivate it, and can only be reactivated if you go into the dashboard and reactivate it.

So for the small mom and pop stores that have to maintain a web presents but might get one or two hits a week this is a serious pain in the arse.

And I can't justify $300/year for something that mainly sets there idle.

But like I said the service itself is great I had no problems with it when I was using it.

Happy Coding

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Kinanee Samson

Fair enough, I've run into this disabling your app part and it's so annoying. Like I think a request to your app should activate it by default not having to manually activate it.

And if what you're building isn't really big then why spend such amount of money? But then again they are a start-up and they have to make tradeoffs.

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Charlie J Smotherman

Not bashing on Supabase, just helping folks make an informed decision about using their service :) If I had the traffic I would be using their service, but sadly I don't.

Happy Coding

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Kinanee Samson

okay, nice one. Hope they keep an eye out for it.

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Thomas Dexter • Edited

Can't you just setup pingdom or similar to hit it once a day?

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RenFontes

You should try Pocketbase 👀

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Charlie J Smotherman

Lolol sqlite on steroids.

Yea going to be checking this one out thanks.

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Kinanee Samson • Edited

Okay nice suggestion bro, I'm definitely going to try that out...

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Md Anik Islam

Great One. I will try this soon in flutter.

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Kinanee Samson

Thanks alot, I'm glad you found it useful. You should find it fun using this with flutter.

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Tanvir Shaikh

Does Supabase has database relationships ?

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Kinanee Samson

I've not really taken my time to explore their database but since it's a Postgres database it should.