Why Agents Love Supabase — with Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson
Supabase co-founders Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson join swyx to break down how their open-source, fully remote company scaled to a $10B valuation by powering PostgreSQL for both humans and AI agents. They discuss major announcements including Supabase Compute, the acquisition of Turso, scaling technologies like OrioleDB and Multigres, and why enterprise database migration remains fundamentally different from landing new workloads. They also share details on product-led sales mechanics, declarative schemas via PG Delta, and managing internal AI agent adoption.
- Non-technical builders using tools like Lovable and Bolt are hitting product activation rates near 100% on Supabase because agents wire up databases and auth automatically. Read →
- Supabase built a declarative schema library called PG Delta to replace sequential SQL migration histories with static, Git-tracked database definitions. Read →
- Supabase released Supabase Compute to handle long-running background tasks like embedding and chunking, collocating workloads on the database's private network instead of hitting short timeouts on Deno Edge Functions. Read →
- Supabase models its sales motion after Stripe, aiming to preserve bottom-up developer goodwill while closing six-figure enterprise contracts. Read →
- Supabase launches 5 million databases every month, but anticipates needing to launch billions per month to support automated agents. Read →