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Over 60% of companies in each Y Combinator batch use Supabase.
Supabase exited its first year of monetization with approximately $1 million in ARR and grew to $7.5 million in ARR the following year.
An estimated 90% of new databases on Supabase are launched by AI agents, totaling millions of new databases each month.
Supabase has grown from 6.5 million to 10 million developers in the past year.
The launch of Claude Code caused an acceleration in Supabase's user growth, conversion rates, and activation rates simultaneously.
Supabase's long-term product vision is to create "self-driving databases" that automate operational tasks, shifting focus from the "build" stage to the more complex "operate" stage.
Supabase has successfully competed with Amazon Web Services despite AWS having significantly more cash resources.
Postgres is now the most popular database, having been only a trending database at the time of Supabase's founding.
Postgres is predicted to remain the dominant database for the next 50 years due to a flywheel effect where its open-source nature encourages contributions from everyone, including hyperscalers.
Supabase's growth significantly accelerated after changing its marketing tagline from "real-time Postgres" to "open source Firebase alternative".
It took Supabase approximately 1.5 years to generate its first revenue.
Supabase's entire product is open source, with the exception of the proprietary code used for hosting millions of databases at scale.