Ant Wilson — e/postgres Profile Banner
Ant Wilson — e/postgres Profile
Ant Wilson — e/postgres

@AntWilson

11,119
Followers
1,957
Following
787
Media
8,270
Statuses

Co-Founder & CTO @supabase | YC S20

Remote
Joined March 2009
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
Pinned Tweet
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
4 months
we're hiring! (2024 edition)
Tweet media one
24
20
288
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
10 months
Thank you Postgres.
Tweet media one
62
204
4K
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
25 days
is there a custom slack emoji limit? asking for a friend...
Tweet media one
44
72
2K
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
2 years
I got into @ycombinator on my 5th attempt. The fact that @supabase is now on the list of Top YC Companies is blowing my mind.
Tweet media one
23
12
548
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
2 years
in my first dev job, I was (and still am) a huge fan of mongodb, so seeing this graph is just unreal
Tweet media one
24
38
490
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
5 months
Last year I paused more than 100,000 databases - a personal best 🥇 If you slack on your side project, you'll be part of my 2024 statistic
62
11
418
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
8 months
We're hiring!
Tweet media one
34
36
407
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
2 months
Supabase has exactly 1 user from the island state of Niue.
Tweet media one
30
6
382
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
27 days
Can you guess which cohort is more willing to pay for dev tools? - JS/TS devs - Python devs - PHP devs - Mobile devs
112
7
318
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
3 years
Sign up with *ALL* the providers! #SupabaseAuth
Tweet media one
29
22
294
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
6 months
For every 10 likes I’ll make this photo more ▲
Tweet media one
11
2
257
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
1 year
The (surprising) story of how we got the first @supabase customer:
13
21
250
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
2 years
Gotta checkout this vid from @fireship_dev
Tweet media one
8
24
249
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
3 years
pushing send on the @supabase beta newsletter gets scarier and scarier each month...
Tweet media one
9
4
244
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
7 months
got PHP devs comin outta retirement like
@kiwicopple
Paul Copplestone — e/postgres
7 months
icymi
Tweet media one
1
1
22
11
23
238
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
6 months
never gets old
Tweet media one
13
13
240
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
1 year
supabase is about to crack 50k github stars putting it in the top 180 repos on github
Tweet media one
12
18
234
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
7 months
the micro-interactions on the @supabase homepage are 🔥 code here:
13
13
227
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
5 months
Today marks the 4th anniversary of @kiwicopple and I starting work full time on @supabase 🎉 Here's some memorable moments on the journey so far...
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
11
15
226
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
2 months
72 YC companies using @supabase in the most recent batch. That’s just shy of 30% of the companies pitching at demo day 🔥
@paulg
Paul Graham
3 months
You could probably make a lot of money simply by investing in companies that a significant percentage of the latest YC batch use. They're the quintessential early adopters.
33
39
884
13
12
224
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
3 years
On the left is the user acquisition graph we've been using in onboarding to tell the @supabase growth story. I'm currently in the process of updating it (right).
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
15
9
219
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
26 days
Getting _really_ good at product launches is essential for all startups. Here's how we got really good at launching on @ProductHunt at @supabase ... 🧵👇
Tweet media one
13
11
220
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
7 months
supabase in 100 seconds…
Tweet media one
6
16
217
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
2 years
One of my favourite slides from the @supabase onboarding deck.
Tweet media one
10
18
214
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
1 year
Why you should try @supabase : - It's fully open source (huge community) - It's scalable (it's pure PostgreSQL) - It's free for 2 projects (as in beer)
23
14
205
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
3 months
🚨 PSA - just hired this dev called Devin - found out he was working multiple jobs!! AVOID!
14
8
205
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
10 months
Hire people who are: - Smart - Get things done Everything else is a nice to have. Including proximity.
8
23
194
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
1 year
5 things we look for in people who apply for roles at @supabase … 1. Egoless - are they willing to do the jobs nobody else wants to do? 95% of work in startups is pure grind. Everyone is expected to pitch in and do the schlep...
8
12
193
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
3 years
The secret sauce is only deploying on fridays 🤫
@TechCrunch
TechCrunch
3 years
Open source backend-as-a-service startup Supabase raises $30M by @grg
19
90
488
10
15
193
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
7 months
Who has supabase feedback for me? What could be better?
256
9
161
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
7 months
Devs after adding ‘supabase’ to the list of skills on their resume…
Tweet media one
10
4
160
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
3 years
cheat code to guaranteeing an interview at @supabase
Tweet media one
12
3
160
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
2 years
last week was the highest number of new databases deployed on @supabase 🎉📈
14
10
156
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
8 months
I got into YC on my *5th* application! If you’re serious about making something people want- just apply 👇
@ycombinator
Y Combinator
8 months
At YC, we work with founders throughout the life of their startup and beyond, to build the world-changing companies of the future. And we'd love to work with you. The deadline to apply for YC W24 is this Friday, Oct 13 at 8pm PDT — apply today at .
Tweet media one
32
114
503
8
10
152
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
1 year
main supabase repo about to hit 45k stars. decent.
10
3
153
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
6 months
The new AI powered RLS assistant in the @supabase dashboard is a perfect example of @rauchg 's concept of "DX 2.0". This isn't just a simple chat interface - it's deeply integrated into the policy writer and will make diff suggestions against your SQL code. DX is evolving fast.
Tweet media one
@rauchg
Guillermo Rauch
6 months
AI will unlock "DX 2.0". It'll transform how we think about Developer Experience. DX 1.0 tools are well known: great docs, low latency feedback loops (e.g.: turbo HMR & builds), great error messages, zero configuration, ergonomic CLIs, … AI unlocks entirely new tools: code and
12
17
401
11
18
153
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
6 months
Wake up babe, new supabase open source hackathon just started…
Tweet media one
13
13
146
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
3 months
Laundry day
Tweet media one
18
7
143
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
3 years
get ready for Supapace - The Open Source Strava Alternative 🏃🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️
8
5
138
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
2 years
Getting verrrry excited for Supabase launch week on 28th March. It’s gonna be a big one.
12
5
138
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
1 month
I've gotta say that was the MOST ENJOYABLE Launch Day ever, shout out to @calcom , @getairchat , @UnloggedI and @limitlessai for tons of laughs and good spirited competition BUT the real winner today was @fekdaoui , the solopreneur who set up a @ProductHunt upvote center in the
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
6
16
139
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
6 months
For every 10 likes I’ll make this photo more data
Tweet media one
8
7
134
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
1 year
have you seen this handy schema visualizer built by @zernonia ?
Tweet media one
9
16
131
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
1 year
Supabase Launch Week 7 had a much larger direct impact on our key metrics than any of our previous launch weeks. Here's why...
Tweet media one
7
15
131
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
6 months
ship_it.py
Tweet media one
9
6
131
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
2 months
What’s missing in supabase?
169
2
127
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
2 months
Devs choose Postgres.
Tweet media one
9
4
126
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
7 months
come and work for supabase remotely
Tweet media one
12
12
125
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
2 months
This was by far the most requested @supabase feature
5
10
124
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
1 year
Every few months we DDoS ourselves by hosting a Launch Week - nice to see the infra taking it all in stride!
Tweet media one
2
3
120
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
4 months
Devs deciding which regions to deploy their supabase read replicas to
14
5
121
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
4 months
"I hope this email finds you well" how the email found me:
Tweet media one
12
14
119
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
7 months
If you have a YC interview coming up - a great way to prep is with mock interviews. Email your interview deets to david (at) and we’ll run one for you.
8
20
119
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
2 years
@fireship_dev We technically self host supabase 🤓
8
0
117
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
1 year
last week @supabase served 81 million auth requests across all projects! 🔒
7
7
114
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
1 year
this new wave of AI powered apps is crazy - we're seeing projects on @supabase adding 000,000s of users PER DAY 🤯
4
4
113
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
1 year
In the first week of january there were more than 70 million auth requests across all projects on the supabase platform. Around 117 per second.
5
8
113
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
14 days
In addition to Firebase adding a postgres connector - I just read that genkit is open source and also supports pg_vector! Great news for firebase devs and for the postgres community as a whole 👏 Big congrats to the team on an awesome launch event!
6
9
112
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
6 months
A full postgres instance for every git branch. We're not playing around!
@supabase
Supabase
6 months
LW🆇 Day 3 Main Stage announcement Supabase Branching ⬥ Vercel Previews ⬥ Data Seeding ⬥ Preview branch and more:
Tweet media one
8
20
155
3
8
107
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
2 years
when you get an email from yourself guilting you for not working on your side project
Tweet media one
11
1
103
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
3 years
one thing I love most about @supabase_io storage is the javascript api built by @phamhieu_ . It's just so... simple 🤷
Tweet media one
6
10
103
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
23 days
If you have a YC interview and want to mock pls email david(at) and we'll help you out 🧡
3
16
100
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
11 months
We're looking for a Rust Dev to work at supabase on open source projects such as: - pg_graphql - - supabase wrappers - pg_jsonschema
7
20
102
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
1 year
come and work at @supabase . amongst other things we make nice landing pages like this one...
Tweet media one
7
13
100
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
4 months
Devs really mean business in 2024. We're seeing all time high numbers for new and active projects on @supabase . The builders are building.
Tweet media one
12
6
101
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
10 months
When building devtools, integrations are a key part of the story. Yesterday we launched Supabase Integrations alongside 65 initial integration partners including: ⬥ Vercel ⬥ Cloudflare ⬥ Retool ⬥ Auth0 ⬥ Prisma ⬥ Clerk ⬥ Stych ⬥ Flutterflow ⬥ and many more:
7
8
99
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
4 months
It started as an aspirational tagline but it's beginning to happen on a regular basis that people are building apps on @supabase in a couple of days and growing them to more than 1 million registered users within a few weeks of launch. These are most often tiny teams of devs
Tweet media one
8
4
98
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
2 months
Nicki Minaj 🤝 Supabase
15
8
97
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
2 months
@AverageProMax it's already damn cheap, no? - 50k free - 50-100k at $0.00025 - 100k+ at $0.00325 for comparison Clerk is: - 10k free - 10k+ at $0.02 Auth0 is: - 7.5k free - 7.5k+ at $0.07 - 20k+ is a few milly plus both your kidneys
8
3
98
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
3 years
hate to admit it but I'm using @supabase_io light mode more than dark mode these days 🤫 2 more years and I'll be using Windows and wearing a tie to the office 🤭
Tweet media one
14
3
97
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
3 months
what could be better in supabase?
130
6
96
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
2 years
Love @supabase ? 💚 Love @GraphQL ? 💜 Then you'll really love @pg_graphql 🥰
5
10
96
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
2 months
no way 👁️⚡👁️
Tweet media one
10
3
95
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
1 year
Real footage of @kiwicopple shipping new supabase docs last night
7
1
89
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
8 months
The ultimate course on using Next.js with Supabase 100% free:
Tweet media one
5
8
90
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
2 months
@chronark_ @supabase we should start marketing it as postgres++
3
0
91
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
26 days
Open roles at @supabase
Tweet media one
12
9
88
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
7 months
Went ahead and decorated by room like a holiday inn express - now whenever I travel I’ll always feel right at home
Tweet media one
12
1
89
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
6 months
for every 10 likes I'll make this lego set more supa
Tweet media one
1
1
89
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
3 months
There's literally never been a better time in human history to start your own company. Grab this stack and make something happen: ◆ @nextjs @supabase @stripe
Tweet media one
6
8
89
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
1 year
“Yea, yea” he said, “sure, whatever. But let me ask you something more important…” “Can I work on this with you guys???” and that’s the story of how our first customer ( @phamhieu_ ) became the first Full Stack Developer at @supabase 😂
2
0
86
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
4 months
How your TODO list app looks at me when I pause it’s db
Tweet media one
7
4
87
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
1 year
thoughts on the new supabase docs landing page?
Tweet media one
24
4
85
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
1 year
did you see the new Postgres connection pooler from @supabase written in @elixirlang ?
Tweet media one
5
8
85
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson ��� e/postgres
6 months
One of the things that makes @supabase hackathons so special is that all the submissions must be fully open source. This means that over the past 3 years the community has built up a collection of HUNDREDS of fully fledged OSS applications and tools. Check out the previous
Tweet media one
3
10
84
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
1 month
The best thing about Supabase Auth imo is that the user data lives inside your database. The second best thing is the price…
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
2 months
@AverageProMax it's already damn cheap, no? - 50k free - 50-100k at $0.00025 - 100k+ at $0.00325 for comparison Clerk is: - 10k free - 10k+ at $0.02 Auth0 is: - 7.5k free - 7.5k+ at $0.07 - 20k+ is a few milly plus both your kidneys
8
3
98
8
4
85
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
2 years
definitely one of my favorite projects built on supabase
Tweet media one
4
7
82
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
5 months
Generate typescript types directly from your db schema
Tweet media one
4
5
83
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
7 months
when apps do this 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
Tweet media one
7
1
83
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
2 months
well that certainly escalated quickly... 😆
Tweet media one
4
6
84
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
3 years
Currently reviewing the submissions for the @supabase hackathon... the fact that people are capable of building this stuff within a week is seriously epic.
6
3
81
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
1 year
YC @startupschool just dropped a video The Best Way To Launch Your Startup by @KatManalac Here's a few points I think are SUPER important...
Tweet media one
7
13
82
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
10 months
new banner on point 💜
Tweet media one
8
1
83
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
7 months
@jrysana *instructions unclear* *doubles price*
3
1
81
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
3 months
the shark fin 🦈
Tweet media one
6
2
80
@AntWilson
Ant Wilson — e/postgres
1 year
The supabase garphic design team can’t spell but they sure as hell can center a div
Tweet media one
6
0
79