Supabase developer who has shipped real-world Postgres + RLS + Edge Functions at scale

Supabase is the open-source Firebase alternative built on Postgres — adds Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime subscriptions, and Vector embeddings on top of a managed Postgres database. Free tier covers small apps; Pro tier ($25/mo) adds production-ready limits; Team and Enterprise tiers for HIPAA, custom domains, point-in-time recovery. The killer feature is Row Level Security (RLS) — Postgres-native authorisation that lets you write multi-tenant SaaS without a separate auth-server layer.

• B2B SaaS apps with multi-tenant data — RLS is a 10x developer-experience improvement over rolling your own authorisation
• Real-time apps (collaborative editing, dashboards, chat) where Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY plus Supabase Realtime replaces a separate websocket layer
• Healthcare / finance apps that need HIPAA / SOC 2 — Supabase Team tier ($350/mo) ships HIPAA Business Associate Agreement
• AI products that need vector embeddings storage — pgvector is built in, no separate vector DB required for most use cases

Row Level Security policies are powerful and easy to get wrong

A misconfigured RLS policy is the leading cause of Supabase data breaches. Review every policy, test with multiple JWT roles, never trust the client.

Edge Functions are Deno, not Node — your npm packages may not work

Most Node packages run fine via Deno's npm compat, but some (anything that touches Node-specific APIs) need adaptation. Plan for it.

Supabase free tier pauses inactive projects after 7 days

Pre-revenue products with low traffic get auto-paused. The pause-then-resume cycle is fine for development, painful in production. Move to Pro before launch.

One senior on every engagement

I am the senior on the call, the senior on the architecture review, and the senior who answers when something breaks at 11pm. The build is delivered with senior engineers from Seahawk Media under my direction; the kickoff and the handover are with me directly.

Real Supabase experience, not "we read the docs once"

The Supabase space is full of agencies that bolted the platform onto a generic offer. The questions a senior Supabase developer answers — content modelling, schema migration, performance, observability, multi-environment workflows — are the questions you actually need answered, and that is where the engagement earns its fee.

Modern stack pairing

Most Supabase engagements pair the platform with Next.js, Astro, or a modern frontend stack. I have shipped both sides of that pairing across 50+ projects. The integration patterns, the deployment topology, the SEO transport on migrations — all of it has been done before, and you get the lessons rather than paying for them in your project.

I take on a small number of Supabase engagements at any given time. Two shapes that fit best:

Project — 4 to 12 weeks, fixed-price. Clear scope (a content migration, a Studio customisation, a performance audit, a build from scratch). Discovery week first, then a fixed-price quote. Most projects land in the 12,000-60,000 USD range.

Retainer — 8 hours per week, monthly. Ongoing Supabase engineering support after launch. Schema evolution, new feature work, integration help with adjacent stacks. Typical retainer 6,400-12,800 USD/month depending on complexity.

Booking sequence: 30-minute call, you describe the brief, I tell you which shape fits and the price range. No sales deck, no qualification screen. If I am not the right person, I will tell you on the call.

• Supabase in the serverless databases directory Supabase vs Neon vs PlanetScale — feature and pricing comparison.
• HIPAA-compliant Supabase + Vercel Production setup for the Next.js + Supabase healthcare stack.

Book a 30-minute call. By the end of it you will know whether Supabase is the right pick for your brief, what the realistic scope is, and a price range that fits your budget. If Supabase is not the right answer, I will tell you and recommend the alternative.