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We[1] have done 50+ conversations with developers this year (mostly indie and small startups). You’re right about the ease of use. The top reasons are

  - they don’t know why, it was just the one they learned/heard about first
  - there is a lot of tooling for it
A lot of them even knew about the limitations of MongoDB but they still choose it.

We concluded that other databases need to start prioritising usability; something few developer tools usually care about.

[1] https//supabase.io



So Supabase is like Hasura for REST?

When are you launching?


Very similar - our realtime is done a bit differently (we use the WAL rather than triggers), and we plan to use Postgres' RLS rather than a custom Auth system.

> When are you launching?

We're in alpha now - https://app.supabase.io (desktop only)




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