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
- —
- 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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Launched 273 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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