We hit 100,000 GitHub stars!! github.com/supabase/supabase
And today, we have eight million developers building with Supabase.
That feels surreal.
When we started Supabase in 2020, there were two of us and a Postgres database. We never optimized for stars. We optimized for developers having a good time building things and stars are a side effect of that. But hitting a milestone is a good chance to reflect. It represents a community that showed up, stuck around, and built things we never anticipated.
Supabase is an open-source project. Our Product Principles have remained unchanged since we started. One of the ones that's most dear to me is supporting existing open source tools:
Supabase supports existing tools and communities wherever possible. Supabase is more like a "community of communities" - each tool typically has its own community which we work with. Open source is something we approach collaboratively: we employ maintainers, sponsor projects, invest in businesses, and develop our own open source tools.
Some of the open source tools that have supported us to this milestone:
- Postgres. Every Supabase project runs unmodified Postgres. Postgres is becoming the default database for every new project on the internet.
- PostgREST powers billions of API requests daily across Supabase and beyond.
- pgvector is now the default way to store embeddings in Postgres.
- Deno is the foundation for Edge Functions.
- imgproxy powers every image transformation on our platform.
- Elixir Phoenix Framework is the foundation for our Realtime server and delivers almost 1.5B messages daily.
To everyone who starred, contributed, filed issues, answered questions in Discord, or built something on top of Supabase: thank you.
We are not done. We think Postgres can be the default database for every new project on the internet and we hope to help drive that - whether that's by helping it to scale to petabytes or adding pluggable storage.
Thanks for all the stars.
-- Copple and the Supabase team