Supabase Select is a conference for builders, so we invited one of the first ones. 🪄 @stevewoz joins @kiwicopple on the Main Stage, October 2 in San Francisco. See you there:

Supabase meetups/ hackathons are happening across the globe! - Supabase × Devin Hackathon Tokyo - 8/14 - 16 - Supabase Abuja Meetup - 8/14 - Supabase Ibadan - 8/15 - Hackathon Supabase - Manta - 8/21 - Demo Night SF: Ship AI Apps with Anthropic + Postman + Supabase + Vercel - 8/27 Find more details here:

Supabase is now a connector on Perplexity Computer. 🔌 Query your production data, look up users, and invoke Edge Functions from a Perplexity chat, or drop Supabase into workflows that span GitHub, Stripe, and Slack and more. Learn more ↓

i reverse engineered how supabase became the #1# recommended backend in AI search and where they're still losing 37.5% citation share. 99k github stars. $5B valuation. the default database for every vibe coding tool on the internet. when u ask chatgpt "firebase alternative with a SQL database" - supabase gets the blue link. "best managed postgres for a startup" - supabase. "add a database, auth, and storage to my react app without building a backend" - supabase. heres how they got there: > they built on postgres instead of inventing their own database. 30 years of trust, borrowed overnight. every developer already knows SQL. > they wrote comparison pages on their own site. "supabase vs firebase." "supabase vs auth0." "supabase vs heroku postgres." when someone asks the AI which backend to use, supabase has a page ready to be cited. > they invented "launch week" - every quarter they ship 5 major features in 5 days. 15 launch weeks so far. thats 75+ individual moments that each generate blog posts, backlinks, and content the AI trains on. > they shipped pgvector in early 2023, six months before most devs knew what a vector database was. by the time the AI wave hit, supabase was already the default answer to "where do i store embeddings." > they became the "connect to supabase" button in lovable, bolt, replit, and cursor. not because of deals. because supabase was already everywhere in the training data. but heres what blew my mind: supabase gets 0 citations on chatgpt for queries about their own core features: > "how do i make sure each user can only read their own rows in postgres" - this is literally row level security. supabase's signature feature. chatgpt doesnt cite them. doesnt even mention them. > "how do i push realtime updates to the browser when my database changes" - realtime is one of their 5 core products. 0 citations. > "how do i add google login and magic links to a next.js app" - supabase auth does exactly this. 0 citations. > "best vector database for a RAG app" - they shipped pgvector before almost everyone. 0 citations. qdrant and aws get cited instead. the pattern: supabase wins every query where someone names the category. but when someone describes the job they need done (the exact problems supabase solves) the AI has no page to link to. firebase is even wilder. mentioned 15 times across all queries but only cited twice. every AI knows firebase exists. none of them have a reason to link to it. supabase built one of the greatest developer platforms ever. and even they have blind spots in AI search. imagine what ur company is missing.

🎙️ Coming to Supabase Select 2026: @daltonc, co-founder of @Standard_Cap and Partner Emeritus at @ycombinator, will join @AntWilson for a fireside chat. Come hang: