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Replacebase

library to migrate away from Supabase

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Hey folks!There has been a lot of talk recently about the reliability of Supabase and migrating away to other database providers (or even hosting Postgres yourself).I'm a big proponent of writing actual backend code rather than locking yourself into frameworks like Supabase. If you already built all your client-side code around it though, then migrating is not a trivial task.Replacebase is designed to help with that. It's a Typescript library that you can plug into actual backend code that exposes a Supabase-compatible API so that you don't have to make significant changes to your frontend.It's designed to be a stepping stone for further migration, letting you switch database and storage providers and eventually move to a bespoke backend architecture without Supabase lock-in (at which point you can also remove Replacebase!)Would love your thoughts: https://github.com/specific-dev/replacebase

HN · launched Feb 25, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 72%) · 0 views

Niche: data and system migration tools · 62 launches, 6 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes This is an open-source abstraction/migration utility that provides drop-in replacement patterns or connection helpers to transition from Supabase APIs to standard PostgreSQL backends.

Discussion

2 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Supabase Auth, PostgREST, AWS S3, postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY

Concerns raised: Realtime adoption and self-hosting difficulties, Storage integration only works with supabase-js client, Missing security & performance advisor feature from Supabase

Feature requests: PostgreSQL security and performance advisor tool, Better realtime alternative or migration path, Direct S3 integration guidance

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 214 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #184 of 215 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 118 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Tinbase · hn · 2026-07-30 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • Typebase · hn · 2026-08-26 · 119 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • instancez · ph · 2026-10-20 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • Sillyweb Supabase Sync Plugin · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • PostgreSQL Migrator · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • Nuvix · hn · 2025-10-30 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • Postbase · hn · 2026-06-01 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • CrossMigrateDB · ph · 2026-10-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48

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