Oh, Joy. Another Valuation.

Right, so listen up, you want a summary? Fine. Supabase, that open-source Firebase alternative – yeah, *another* one – just snagged a $5 billion valuation. Five BILLION. Four months after hitting 2 billion. Do you know what that means? It means VCs are throwing money at anything with “open source” slapped on it like a sticker.

They’re apparently growing like weeds, boasting some impressive numbers: 500k+ projects, 1 million registered users and $40M ARR. ARR! As if that actually *means* something these days. They’ve taken another $300 million in funding led by Tiger Global and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Because of course they did.

The whole thing is built on Postgres, which, let’s be honest, is a perfectly good database but hardly revolutionary. They’re trying to make it easier for developers, blah blah blah. Everyone’s always “making things easier.” It usually just means more abstraction layers and inevitable headaches later.

And the kicker? They want to be “the backend for everything.” Oh, *really*? Good luck with that, you naive little startup. Seriously. Just… seriously.

Don’t expect me to care about their “AI-powered features” or whatever marketing fluff they’re peddling now. It’s all the same garbage repackaged.

Source: TechCrunch

Related Anecdote (Because You Apparently Need Context)

I once had to debug a system where someone decided to “simplify” things by building their own database abstraction layer. It took three weeks, several all-nighters, and an ungodly amount of caffeine to unravel the mess. Three weeks I’ll never get back. So yeah, forgive me if I’m skeptical about yet another “easy backend” solution.

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