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I love the direction Supabase is taking; finding the building blocks of modern applications (database, auth, functions, presence, realtime subscriptions), making them easy to use, and then sharing the source code. I’ve learned a ton just from cruising around supabase GitHub.

Can you say which of these new components will be open sourced? There are some other features (e.g. function hooks) that are also closed-source at the moment. Is Supabase heading for an “open core” model?



> finding the building blocks of modern applications (database, auth, functions, presence, realtime subscriptions), making them easy to use, and then sharing the source code.

Great observation!

> I’ve learned a ton just from cruising around supabase GitHub.

Glad to hear it!

> Can you say which of these new components will be open sourced?

All of these components are open source and licensed under Apache License v2.0.

> There are some other features (e.g. function hooks) that are also closed-source at the moment.

I actually worked on the initial implementation of function hooks. We've actually already open sourced both the client (see: https://github.com/supabase/supabase/tree/88bcef911669595428...) and the pg_net extension it requires (see: https://github.com/supabase/pg_net). I think we've yet to open source the SQL commands needed to create the schema, functions, etc. I'll talk to my team and we'll open source it.

> Is Supabase heading for an “open core” model?

I don't think so. We want to continue to open source our projects under either MIT (client libs) and Apache License v2.0 (server libs).


Wanted to follow up on this. I spoke to the team and just wanted to re-iterate that we will be open sourcing the SQL very soon.


On the function hooks, that would be awesome. I was just implementing some of those SQL commands.

And I will look more at the realtime libraries to see the new stuff. Thanks for all the open code!!


> I was just implementing some of those SQL commands.

Way to take the initiative! I think it was more of an oversight on our part than intentionally choosing to keep it closed.

> And I will look more at the realtime libraries to see the new stuff.

Awesome! We have a lot of updates and better documentation coming in the next couple of weeks so stay tuned.

> Thanks for all the open code!!

You're very welcome and it's the least we can do!




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