Published on April 25, 2025
In Global Tech

How Supabase Accidentally Became the Backbone of Vibe Coding

The company quickly established itself as the go-to backend for modern vibe coding platforms, offering an easy way to manage databases and authentication.

Image by Diksha Mishra

By Siddharth Jindal

With a $200 million investment led by Accel and a $2 billion valuation, Supabase is having its moment. But how serious is the hype? So serious that an Accel investor took a 17-hour flight to meet the CEO, Paul Copplestone, in one of the most remote parts of New Zealand. Copplestone wasn’t sure if it was about the deal or if he just wanted an “epic story”, but either way, he was impressed. https://twitter.com/kiwicopple/status/1883441078843605055 Founded in 2020 as an open-source alternative to Google’s Firebase, Supabase is now widely used by vibe coding platforms to simplify software development, offering backend capabilities like a PostgreSQL database, authentication, and real-time features in a familiar, developer-friendly format. As vibe coding rises, people are buil

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Siddharth Jindal

Siddharth is a media graduate who loves to explore tech through journalism and putting forward ideas worth pondering about in the era of artificial intelligence.