It all starts with Postgres (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Paul Copplestone, CEO of Supabase (the meme-lord himself), joins the show to take us on the journey of Supabase leading Postgres for life, and how it all starts with Postgres as the base-layer substrate for the entire Supabase platform. They’re laser focused on the drive ahead, not the rear-view mirror.

Disclosure: Adam and Jerod are angel investors in Supabase.

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Featuring:

• Paul Copplestone – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• Supabase.com
• Changelog News #54: 🔥 Supabase quietly went public today
• “Build in a weekend, scale to millions”
• 29% of Y Combinator batch (W24) use Supabase
• Oriole joins Supabase
• We are moving to General Availability (April 2024)
• Changelog #476: Supabase is all in on Postgres
• How to Run Supabase Locally
• Supabase local development
• Changelog #590: Good timing makes great products
• Fly Postgres, managed by Supabase

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Chapter

1. Disclaimer (00:00:00)

2. Welcome to The Changelog (00:00:13)

3. Sponsor: Sentry (00:01:21)

https://sentry.io/

4. Supabase went public? (00:05:01)

5. Meme lords (00:07:35)

6. Supabase's new tagline (00:09:25)

7. All in on open source (00:11:02)

8. The threat to your open source (00:14:25)

9. Self-hosting Supabase? (00:15:23)

10. Supabase services (00:18:24)

11. PG vector (00:22:11)

12. Sponsor: 1Password (00:25:15)

https://1password.com/changelogpod

13. Where is the pain? (00:27:52)

14. Second order primatives (00:31:33)

15. Focusing on failures (00:32:38)

16. The Supabase team (00:36:38)

17. We've reached product market fit (00:41:22)

18. No marketing? (00:46:44)

19. Sponsor: Paragon (00:53:01)

https://www.useparagon.com/changelog

20. Betting BIG on Postgres (00:56:40)

21. Vs Neon (00:58:57)

22. App framework on Postgres (01:02:24)

23. How do you keep winning? (01:09:47)

24. Teams looking for managed/serverless (01:12:52)

25. Supabase has branching (01:20:57)

26. Launch weeks are huge! (01:23:38)

27. What's got Paul excited? (01:26:32)

28. What are you long on? (01:31:17)

29. ++ teaser (01:33:18)