Firebase, every mention
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The egoless culture that built Supabase | Paul Copplestone (Co-founder, CEO)
- ▶ 5:00 Paul Copplestone We were using Postgres for most of our database workload, but then for the chat side, I was using Firebase because it's got this nice real time functionality.
- ▶ 12:45 Paul Copplestone I changed the tagline to Open Source Firebase Alternative, and someone put it on Hacker News that next day, and immediately it went, like, to the top of Hacker News. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:14 Brett Berson Or what was true about what you did where Firebase, obviously that was a critique for a long time, which is a great place to get started, but not a great place to scale. 5 times in the scene