Bogdan AndronicUntil version 5, AI Mania was built on Firebase for database, authentication, and storage. However, one major concern kept me up at night: 𝒄𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒍. Firebase doesn’t allow you to set a maximum spending limit, only alerts, meaning you could end up with a huge bill if you’re not careful. That risk was just too high for me.
Why Supabase?
To address this, I decided to switch to Supabase. It offers similar services to Firebase — PostgreSQL database, authentication, and storage — but with one crucial difference: 𝒃𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒕-𝒊𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒍. You can stop everything before it runs up a massive bill, which is a huge relief! Plus, both platforms offer serverless functions, which I’m a big fan of.
Looking Forward
Thinking about future developments for the website, I believe an SQL database is a better long-term solution for my site. Supabase also makes it easier to optimize images and integrate them with the Next.js image component (harder to achieve that with google storage), which is a nice bonus.
𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝒊𝒏 𝑨𝑰 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒂 𝑽6?
- new design (in beta)
- improved mobile responsive
- news/articles have table of contents etc
- better categories
- Next.js app version (backend + frontend)
- New CMS (payload as headless vs firecms)
- Supabase (database) + GraphQL
- Authentication (coming soon)
- Serverless functions (scheduled tasks, etc.)
𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑺𝒐𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒊𝒏 𝒗6
- Speed Performance Optimisation
- AI guides (free)
- AI (generative HTML on search, advanced search capabilities, tool suggestions based on needs, etc.)
- AI chat / AI training
- Ability to add your own AI Tools
- And ... (I’ll reveal this feature after it launches!)
𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔?
Have you used both Supabase and Firebase? Which one do you prefer?
