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Tinbase

OSS Supabase-compatible back end in TypeScript

Details

External ID
49108849
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
Tinbase
Website domain
tinbase.dev
Launched
July 30, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
9
Upvotes percentile
0.505973715651135
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Updated at
Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.

Enrichment

Theme
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Data infrastructure
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
open source supabase-compatible backend
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

No Re-implementing Supabase's ecosystem (PostgreSQL, Row-Level Security, Auth, Storage, and Realtime WebSocket replication) into a single-process TypeScript runtime running even in the browser is a monumental systems engineering feat.

What it would actually take: Building Tinbase requires embedding a full Postgres-compatible SQL engine (or compiling Postgres/PGLite to WebAssembly for browser support), implementing a custom Postgres wire protocol parser, and reimplementing Supabase's GoTrue auth and PostgREST API layer in TypeScript. Furthermore, it requires a custom real-time CDC (Change Data Capture) engine and transactional filesystem/S3-compatible storage abstraction. The engineering team must have deep expertise in database internals, WebAssembly runtimes, and PostgreSQL protocol specifications.

Discussion

4 comments analyzed.

Competitors

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Attention rank: #96 of 193 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 273 days after the earliest competitor.

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