yclurker · HackerTrans

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

The problem is not with providing documentation.

They are not providing the missing source codes to put together a self hostable solution. Essentially they are not open source. Otherwise writing documentation is trivial by one of the community members.

yclurker

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

>> It's just another hosted service with vendor lock-in, no different from Firebase to me

Couldn't agree more. They are real shady every time self hosting comes up.

See here ==> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26637360

yclurker

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Supabase is NOT open source and it's Founders are highly unethical. Here’s why.

We heavily rely both on postgres and Firebase. And when Supabase came as an “open source” Firebase alternative (also a YC company), naturally we were excited. However ever since the launch, time and again the community has kept asking for a self-hostable version to no avail. And community is requesting that since not all of Supabase is open source. If it were, community themselves would have built it. But Founders have been “milking” the words “Open Source” and ignoring the community altogether.

Here is the full story : Few weeks ago, I checked supabase self hosting documentation again ==> they were callous enough to even mention how to move away from Supabase and had no instructions to self host! Completely put off by this unethical means of taking community and words open source for granted, I prompted them about it. And their response has been to remove “How to Self host” section altogether from the website, documentation and Github. And then provided a fully watered down version of docker-compose which “is barely functional or useful” to community as it has no dashboard within it.

Whenever self hostable questions comes up, Supabase Founders cover up by providing vague answers like ==> “We are building with existing & proven OSS tools. We stitch them all together seamlessly”. When decrypted, that translates to ==> “We use open source to build our software (hey nothing special here : bazillion companies do that). There will never be a usable self-hostable solution in near future”. F** you Supabase.

Every single open source company that I can think of can be self-hosted. World class open source companies go to great lengths to ensure its always self hostable even by compiling source.

Supabase founders : You should be so ashamed of yourself for setting such low standards on what could be termed as open source.

yclurker

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

When underlying things change rapidly, what to search becomes memory.

yclurker

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

From your commit in README.md

>> You can emulate Supabase using `docker-compose` by following these steps inside the `./docker` folder.

What does even emulating mean for an open source product ? Why do I want to emulate and not run the real thing.

>> I probably can't satisfy you

Dude, if you can show me one another product which claims to be "open source" that can't be self hosted I will admit it.

yclurker

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Much needed indeed. I can imagine quite a demand for this.

But how do you plan to tackle supply in meaningful way ? A practitioner sitting at a clinic can draw lot of samples vs the one travelling to homes.

yclurker

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

@kiwicopple : I'm really sorry to say this, I understand you try your best to sound reasonable every time. It's just that you alone believe that we can't see past your replies. But it is pretty evident that you wont make Supabase self hostable. Dude, even proprietary closed products provide docker / docker-compose by default in their repos. Quite honestly, shame on Supabase for setting such a shady example.

yclurker

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 677, in urlopen
  File "site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 392, in _make_request
  File "http/client.py", line 1252, in request
  File "http/client.py", line 1298, in _send_request
  File "http/client.py", line 1247, in endheaders
  File "http/client.py", line 1026, in _send_output
  File "http/client.py", line 966, in send
  File "site-packages/docker/transport/unixconn.py", line 43, in connect

yclurker

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

The Open Source Fivetran alternative. Yay, it was about time! A simple license : MIT. Clear differentiation between free & paid plans. I am liking what I am seeing so far. One of our client is in advertising industry and is syncing data from 20 different API vendors to postgres. So I am one of your potential customer.

However, there is a big problem I'm noticing with "Open source alternatives" lately on HN. I had to mention this.

Even a simple installation of airbyte on my local machine fails :( I tried docker-compose up!

I simply wanna know why a basic example is not working on an important day of your company ? :) Is this a genuine mistake ? Sorry, this feedback will sound harsh but companies are taking words 'open source' for a complete ride. It's a great marketing trick. Gets you plenty of eyeballs, good will & trust to begin with. Then later we figure it's not even self hostable.

Here is a bad example that you may not want to follow : Supabase "The Open Source Firebase Alternative". The product is not self hostable despite calling themselves open source firebase all over internet. The Founders of Supabase have been disingenuous not to address self hosting[1][2] and its a been long time since their launch. The self hosting section on their website[3] doesn't provide any details on how to self host and they are careless enough to even mention "how to migrate away" from Supabase in that section.

[1] : https://github.com/supabase/supabase/discussions/219#discuss... [2] : https://github.com/supabase/supabase/issues/85#issuecomment-... [3] : https://supabase.io/docs/guides/platform#self-hosting

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