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Ask HN: Would you recommend self-hosted Supabase for a large healthcare project?

Dec 09, 2024 - news.ycombinator.com
The author, an experienced architect and developer, is planning to create a project aimed at facilitating effective information exchange between parents and doctors for children with complex medical conditions. The project will involve medical reports, records, and health data visualization, with support from leading doctors. The author is considering whether to use a PostgreSQL database with a custom backend or a self-hosted Supabase with row-level security to reduce backend development time, allowing more focus on user features like AI integration.

The project will be hosted on powerful servers, and the author seeks recent experiences with Supabase to decide its suitability for the project. They have encountered some negative feedback from 2023 but are interested in knowing if Supabase has improved recently. The author requests specific experiences and recommendations regarding Supabase's effectiveness for such a project.

Key takeaways:

  • The author is a father of a premature son with a complex medical condition and plans to create a project to facilitate information exchange between parents and doctors.
  • He has extensive experience as an architect, developer, and server administrator, with over 20 years in the field and numerous large projects under his belt.
  • He is considering using PostgreSQL or self-hosted Supabase with row-level security to reduce backend development time for the project.
  • He seeks current feedback on Supabase's performance and reliability, as he has encountered some negative reviews from 2023.
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