Ask HN: Is Supabase suitable/ready for a real life chat application?

by nyddle on 5/1/2023, 5:50:43 PM with 2 comments
I chose Flutter+Supabase as a tech stack to build kinda Slack clone. There are plenty of simplistic examples of real-time chat apps with Supabase, but I wonder if anyone had success with it in real life scenarios with any substabtial userbase (say, 1k+ active users online).

Another thing that I'm concerned about is whether I would be able to run it as a self-hosted app.

  • by kiwicopple on 5/5/2023, 5:08:26 AM

    We have customers receiving many millions of requests per day, and hundreds of thousands of users. It will be able to handle your workload, probably even on the free tier

  • by atentaten on 5/4/2023, 7:13:44 PM

    I hope it's suitable because I will be using as well for an app that will have 1k+ user base. As far as self-hosting goes, if you're planning on using Supabase Realtime, it can be self-hosted along with the other pieces of the Supabase stack.