[abcdjdjd]

I don't get the advantage of using supabase or things like it. It feels like you are basically relying on a third party to do the work for you and you are paying them to do it.

Doesn't seem portable at all. If you make your own code, you can move it wherever you want in whatever system you want. It seems like if you use this product, it will get you stuck in that environment and if you need to upgrade, then you are going to have to do the work later on anyways.

What exactly is so great about this product? I'm not saying its bad, I'm just not fully understanding the advantages of using it?

Why would someone want to use this over something like a framework for the backend (that is free) and a database they want and then host it wherever they want? I don't really get why someone who knows how to code would want to pay extra money to build a backend.

[jononomo]

If you "know how to code" then why did you buy a laptop with an operating system that someone else wrote instead of building your own laptop and writing your own operating system for it so that you have more portability and control?

[nl]

> It feels like you are basically relying on a third party to do the work for you and you are paying them to do it.

Yes, which is great sometimes.

> I don't really get why someone who knows how to code would want to pay extra money to build a backend.

Because reinventing the wheel isn't the best use of time. It's more fun to work on interesting problems than yet another backend, again.

> Doesn't seem portable at all. If you make your own code, you can move it wherever you want in whatever system you want

You realize it is all open source and can be self-hosted, right?

[jononomo]

You're going to have to pay to host your Rails/Django/Whatever app anyway, and you're also going to have to pay for a hosted Postgres solution, so why not just get them both in one deal and then also dispense with the need for a bunch of Rails code thanks to the auth and REST api that is built in to Supabase.

[yawnxyz]

Saves me a ton of time to use Supabase or something similar — as a single developer / "indie hacker" this frees up time to work on other things, or for more naps :)

Also, I don't have to worry about my code being terrible, either.