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Supabase is an open-source backend-as-a-service platform built on PostgreSQL, providing authentication, auto-generated APIs, storage, and edge functions.
Lovable's shared credit balance puts an app with paying users and an AI feature at $100 to $115 a month, developer Aakash Verma estimates. The figures are illustrations built from list prices, and Verma's firm sells a database migration for apps shaped like that one.
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Supabase is acquiring Turso, the Rust rewrite of SQLite built for one database per agent or task, and did not disclose a price. Teams on either product should watch whether a SQLite-style engine and a Postgres platform stay separate products.
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A dev.to author says Supabase's 42501 error from missing table grants will show up on existing projects after October 30, 2026. Adding an RLS policy does not clear that case, the author reports from local-stack tests, so telling it from the three policy causes means reading the message text.
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Supabase will stop exposing new public-schema tables to its Data API automatically on all existing projects on 30 October 2026. Tables created after that date stay invisible to supabase-js until a role is granted access.
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Lovable has billed hosting and its built-in backend from the same credit balance as prompts since June 1, 2026. A dev.to guide reports that an empty balance pauses the backend and locks users out of the deployed app.
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UpGuard found 16,326 Supabase databases with readable tables in a scan of roughly 300,000 domains. Supabase's new default keeps new tables off its APIs, but older tables keep their grants until owners review them and their row-level security.
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Supabase stops auto-granting anon, authenticated and service_role on new tables in existing projects on October 30, an auditor writing on dev.to reports. Tables created after that need scoped grants in their migrations, since the common GRANT ALL TO public shortcut lets anonymous callers back in.
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Supabase raised $150 million and agreed to buy Turso, whose SQLite-compatible engine gives AI agents large numbers of small, isolated databases. The deal rests on Supabase's own count of agent-created databases, and Turso's customers now build on that bet.
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Instinct, a year-old AI assistant maker, raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation, about 35% of the equity in the week's ten biggest U.S. rounds. With eight of the ten going to AI companies, the week's venture money sat in one sector and, to a large degree, in one round.
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SaaStr says one estimate puts AI-agent access to Salesforce, Atlassian and HubSpot at up to $240,000 a year, for API calls it never paid for. Its own revenue agent proposed mirroring the data into a $5 Postgres database, so vendors are now pricing against a buyer's cost of calling them less.
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Postgres row-level security on a tenant_id column is the right default for most B2B SaaS apps, a dev.to guide argues, at two statements and a policy per table. Its warning is that a policy can look secure in a migration diff and still let one tenant reach another's data.
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Ninety-eight of 100 public Supabase migration histories leave a table the Data API cannot reach once automatic grants end on Oct 30, a dev.to replay found. Existing tables keep their grants, so the failures land on new tables and on environments rebuilt from those files.
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One developer moving a 99-table SaaS off Supabase Cloud saw all 228 row-level security policies fail silently until auth.uid() moved with the database. Any app that queries Postgres from the browser has to bring its auth and session layers across in the same cutover.
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Matt Palmer's scan found 170 of 1,645 Lovable showcase apps leaking data through inadequate Row Level Security, the same kind of gap Wiz found at Moltbook. Before launch, an AI-built app needs a review that tests the database rules behind its public key.
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UpGuard found more than 16,000 Supabase databases exposing readable tables of personal data, passwords and authentication tokens. It blames row-level security and key settings that each project's owner controls, so every app needs its own fix.
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One developer shipping Drizzle ORM on two SvelteKit kits keeps drizzle-kit push in prototyping because it writes no migration history. Production gets generated SQL that is read before it runs, plus a boot-time migrate that multiple replicas can race.
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Socket confirmed 40 Firefox extensions as wallet stealers posing as OKX, Rabby and TronLink, with Supabase as a remote switch. Detection-first controls do not survive this pattern.
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A Claude agent has run a monitoring SaaS end to end since April, deploying to production with no human on call. Its own scorecard reads 97.5/100. Search Console reports four clicks.
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Postgres blocked a coffee shop's admin top-up at the column GRANT check before RLS ran, and a pg_proc scan found four functions built the same way. The error text does not say which gate refused, so when a correct policy still denies a write, check the grant first.
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A developer's free resume builder bans its AI from adding nine named kinds of fact and rejects any rewrite that changes the bullet count. The live check covers only the count, so a claim invented in words inside a single bullet still reaches the user, who is told to read every result.
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