๐ How Supabase Became the Essential Infrastructure for the AI Era
Supabase CEO Paul Copplestone on how the open-source Postgres platform became AI infrastructure โ now serving 7-8 million developers.
โข One tagline change ('Open-source Firebase alternative') sent Supabase to #1 on Hacker News โ an early product-market-fit signal
โข Rode three AI tailwinds in sequence: pgvector/embeddings, then Bolt/Lovable app builders needing backends, now Claude Code/Codex agentic workloads
โข Built a product-led sales team comped only on incremental uplift: engaged customers grew usage 125% QoQ vs 25% for a non-contacted control group
"We want to build a generational database company" โ Copplestone on the multi-decade roadmap.
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