Alpha Launch Postmortem

In May, Supabase launched and quickly gained popularity on platforms like Hacker News and GitHub. During the launch week, they had over 30,000 new website visitors, more than 1400 signups, and a significant increase in their GitHub stars. The middleware served from a single Ubuntu server with docker-compose up survived well, while the frontend was hosted on Netlify and Vercel, which were both reliable. However, they faced issues with Digital Ocean's cloud limits and Cloudflare's subdomain limit during the launch. They also experienced production errors from Digital Ocean and had to migrate 1800 servers over to AWS due to their frustrating credits policy. Supabase is now on the AWS "Activate" program, which grants them $100,000 in credits, allowing for improvements in database startup times and a better experience for developers.