Thoughts on Supabase
Great to start with, but don't have too many ideas!
Supabase is great for getting started. Having the database, the authentication flow, extras like realtime events and storage if you need them, plus a nice easy dashboard to navigate through them all, not to mention the SQL editors... It's a great product and I'd definitely recommend it to folk starting out app development now it's become a bit of a craze. As long as you only have two projects in mind. Any more than that and you'll have to start paying - move up to the Pro plan which costs you, and then pay extra per additional project per month. I'm at the point where I do not want to pay anymore - sorry Supabase!
So I'm going to try and venture into rolling my own. I've heard of people self-hosting on Twitter, and I'm familiar (and competent!) enough to give it a bash myself. I've taken from my career the concept of "horizontal infrastructure" - simply put it's a layer of critical infrastructure components that you then build your app container on top of. I've also got applications deployed across AWS Amplify, Render, and Vercel, and they'll all be charging in their own way. So if I can get everything migrated on to my own self-hosted environment, not only will everything be in the one place, but it should hopefully be a bit cheaper. Migrating existing projects like TypeStars might be an undertaking due to just how much work it's doing. So I'll proof-of-concept it with a new project idea I've had sitting on the shelf before I break something I've actually put out there in public.
Watch it all come crashing down!