One thing that we don’t shout about much at @supabase, but I’m particularly proud of: we have engineered the entire company to be as open source as possible: 1/ we prioritise supporting existing open source projects over building from scratch 2/ we upstream everything we can 3/ we donate to frameworks and projects, and acquire them if they can’t find stability 4/ we prioritise community contributors over building ourselves (and sponsor them for their work) 5/ our code is 100% free and open source (and to back this up: used by behemoths like Alicloud who don’t pay us anything). Essentially every engineer we employ is working on open source products it has been incredibly difficult to pull this off, striking the balance between commercialization and giving away as much as possible. As we grow bigger I only hope to support more open source communities

Nov 4, 2025 · 7:58 AM UTC

Time for Pledge yet? I forget where we left off …
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i think the activities above weren't counted as "pledge worthy" because they are too close to our product (which is kind of the model that we are building to be sustainable)
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this is how you build trust in the dev community long term everyone talks about "open source" but actually structuring your whole company around contributing back? thats rare af what's been the hardest part about maintaining that philosophy as you scale? i imagine theres constant pressure to just fork stuff and keep it internal
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the hardest part is community - fostering projects is hard, fostering people is harder
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Thank you for doing that
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Glad to see this going still big. I remember you mentioning in one of those launch week posts years ago!
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Supabase is impressive at this and has been our role model from the very start (we were in YC one batch apart). This is why we started running Launch Weeks, and it transformed our whole culture:
We’ve run 11 Launch Weeks at Wasp - probably more than anyone except @Supabase. From the outside, it's all fancy tweets, memes and PH launches. But here’s what it actually feels like to run 11 of them, and why its valuable even if only five people join:
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Supabase is an incredible project and it deserves to be the industry standard it is. Every time I see an open source project of that scale and quality I feel very positive about the future
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open source done right
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Impressive to scale and thread this needle at the same time.
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You know what, that's cool.
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You guys are really top tier
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Replying to @kiwicopple
Thank you for what you guys are doing. Speaking at open source and communities - take a look at my project Replyke.com - sweat and tears. I'm hoping to get more eyes on it. It's powered with @supabase behind the scenes
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this is the kind of open model that builds real legacy. not just “using open source,” but feeding it at every level. respect.
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Will you create “howto” markdown file for Codex so it can setup everything on GCP VM?
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Walking the walk on open source, respect for making it core to the company DNA
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Check out what we've been up to in October 👇
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