Sam Rome

Building things worth caring about.

Supabase • DevRel Engineer @Supabase

[Sam Rome @samromehq]

If you want to start a startup:

Claude = coding ($20/mo)
Vercel = deploying (Free)
Stripe = payments (2.9%)
GitHub = version control (Free)
Namecheap = domain ($12/yr)

Supabase = database (Free)
Supabase = auth (Free)
Supabase = storage (Free)
Supabase = vector DB (Free)
Supabase = realtime (Free)
Supabase = edge functions (Free)
Supabase = cron jobs (Free)

Total: ~$20/mo. Half your stack was one signup

[Sam Rome @samromehq]

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[Sam Rome @samromehq]

We are hiring at Supabase!

There are 60 open positions across engineering, sales, design, and many more, so there should be something that would fit you!

We are a remote company, so where you live doesn't matter. If you are awesome at what you do, we'd love to work with you!

[Sam Rome @samromehq]

genuine question

AWS took Postgres and called it RDS
took Linux and called it EC2
took Redis and called it ElastiCache
took Kafka and called it MSK
took Kubernetes and called it EKS
$100 billion a year for the rename

am I missing something

[Sam Rome @samromehq]

Time it took to reach 1,000,000 users:

GitHub: 3.5 years
Airbnb: 2.5 years
Kickstarter: 2.5 years
Foursquare: 13 months
Dropbox: 7 months
Spotify: 5 months
Angry Birds: 35 days
Pokémon Go: ~2 hours
Threads: 1 hour

Companies that did it on Supabase last year: 12

[Sam Rome @samromehq]

never met a vibe coder using MySQL

never met a vibe coder using MongoDB

never met a vibe coder using SQLite

never met a vibe coder using Oracle

never met a vibe coder using DynamoDB

never met a vibe coder using Cassandra

starting to suspect vibe coding is just
Postgres + AI

[Sam Rome @samromehq]

genuine question

AWS took Postgres and called it RDS
took Linux and called it EC2
took Redis and called it ElastiCache
took Kafka and called it MSK
took Kubernetes and called it EKS
$100 billion a year for the rename

am I missing something

[Sam Rome @samromehq]

Databases & their origins:

🐘 PostgreSQL → UC Berkeley research project → 1986
🪶 SQLite → built for a warship (literally) → 2000
🐬 MySQL → named after founder's daughter My → 1995
🔴 Redis → one guy in Italy, Salvatore Sanfilippo → 2009
🍃 MongoDB → a failed PaaS pivot → 2009
📊 ClickHouse → Yandex needed faster analytics → 2016
🦆 DuckDB → two researchers in Amsterdam → 2019

Which database has the best origin story?

[Sam Rome @samromehq]

@robert_vesely True…

[Sam Rome @samromehq]

never met a vibe coder using MySQL

never met a vibe coder using MongoDB

never met a vibe coder using SQLite

never met a vibe coder using Oracle

never met a vibe coder using DynamoDB

never met a vibe coder using Cassandra

starting to suspect vibe coding is just
Postgres + AI

[Sam Rome @samromehq]

@vibefodder Let’s gooo!

[Sam Rome @samromehq]

@_r_a_f_a True…

[Sam Rome @samromehq]

@elite_gabe29 Supabase is Postgres👍

[Sam Rome @samromehq]

@JoelAbenhaim Would love to meet more🙌

[Sam Rome @samromehq]

@MRAmiri A lot🙌

[Sam Rome @samromehq]

@A_Sober_Drunk By choice, or the AI just recommends it to you?

[Sam Rome @samromehq]

@Marleaux_ Nothing. It’s great

[Sam Rome @samromehq]

@justdevopsguy Yessir🤞

[Sam Rome @samromehq]

@Jordan_RK Engineer who vibecodes*😂

[Sam Rome @samromehq]

@truffle Is that by choice, or AI recommendations?

[Sam Rome @samromehq]

@J_B_N_P Everyday I meet new people👍