[dkhenry]

You're being entirely unfair to Supabase here. Research is important, but there is a reason why the USPTO has developed substantial case law around Reduction to Practice, everything is built on prior work, so to say there is nothing novel about actually building displayed working system from parts is factually inaccurate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduction_to_practice

[kiwicopple]

To add to your point: we didn’t file the patent. we acquired it (at a considerable cost) and we are working to make it freely available

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45196771

[mind-blight]

Yeah, huge props here. There's a contingent on HN that seems to assume that almost any action by a company is done in bad faith. I dislike all of the shady stuff that happens, but that's why we should celebrate when companies are doing awesome things.

This is all positive. Super appreciate what you folks have done. It's clearly hard, well intentioned, and thoughtfully executed.

[Imustaskforhelp]

Mad respects.

People might say that the company is doing it for good will, but that is the point, it is better to get the good will of the users by actually helping them instead of being like thousands of other companies which don't even do that. It is a nuanced topic but I feel like we should encourage companies which do good period. (like silksong / team cherry in gaming) etc.

I will look further into this now :p thanks!