Supabase hits 13M users as ~70% of new activity comes from AI agents
ycombinator · x · 2026-10-30
On YC's Lightcone podcast, Supabase co-founder and CEO Paul Copplestone explains how the open-source Postgres platform became a default backend for the AI coding era: 13 million users, over 1 million databases spun up weekly, and roughly 70% of new activity driven by agents rather than human developers.
Key topics from the conversation:
- Why personal software may become as common as personal documents, and what that means for startups
- Designing products that agents actually want to use, including agent-first design and evals
- Supabase's own internal AI adoption and lessons learned
- Three eras of Supabase, 4x revenue growth, personal databases and data ownership, and scaling to billions
The core thesis: as coding shifts from hand-written software to agents building on users' behalf, knowing what to build may matter more than knowing how to build it.
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