Did a user group presentation on Supabase, no one in the audience had ever heard of it. I came away quite impressed. Plan on building a complex API with it soon. If I was currently employed as a backend developer I'd be worried.

Don't worry, somebody still has to design all the database tables/relations, views, triggers, etc. Which means we all become better database developers, which is a very good thing.

Also, these tools can't handle certain back end logic (ie, API interactions and integrations, long running processes, etc). Which is the complex bit, anyways.

This just removes the need for some backend engineering, but will leave the actual hard work (schema design, etc)

More and more, developers need to add value to the business, instead of being the key holders of arcane invocations. It used to be that knowing how to use a computer was a technical skills; now it’s evolved into understanding the business.

I think they should create a tier between the free and pro with a price of USD5 that doesn't pause projects and has backups

Agree on the backups piece, that should even be in the free plan as that much space is not likely to be expensive if they used cold storage.

Otoh, if you aren’t sending 1 request per week to an installation, it’s really not active at all. The overheard of supporting this niche is probably too much for a company that clearly is in ruthless prioritization mode.