From the source
github.com/supabase/supabase And today, we have eight million developers building with Supabase.
That feels surreal.
When we started Supabase in 2020, there were two of us and a Postgres database.
We never optimized for stars.
We optimized for developers having a good time building things and stars are a side effect of that.
But hitting a milestone is a good chance to reflect.
It represents a community that showed up, stuck around, and built things we never anticipated.
Supabase is an open-source project.
Our Product Principles have remained unchanged since we started.
One of the ones that's most dear to me is supporting existing open source tools: Supabase supports existing tools and communities wherever possible.
Supabase is more like a "community of communities" - each tool typically has its own community which we work with.
Open source is something we approach collaboratively: we employ maintainers, sponsor projects, invest in businesses, and develop our own open source tools.
Some of the open source tools that have supported us to this milestone: Postgres .
Every Supabase project runs unmodified Postgres.
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