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title: "100,000 GitHub stars"
description: "Supabase reports reaching 100,000 GitHub stars and says eight million developers are building with the platform. Founded in 2020 by two people around a Postgres database, the project says it optimized for developers having a good time rather than for star counts, treating the milestone as evidence of a community that contributed, stayed involved, and built unexpected projects. Its open-source approach centers on supporting existing tools and communities: projects run unmodified Postgres, PostgREST handles billions of API requests daily, pgvector stores embeddings, Deno underpins Edge Functions, imgproxy handles image transformations, and Phoenix supports Realtime at almost 1.5 billion messages per day. The team says it aims to help make Postgres the default database for new internet projects, including by pursuing petabyte scale and pluggable storage."
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# 100,000 GitHub stars

[Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase) · paul\_copplestone · Apr 2, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Supabase reports reaching 100,000 GitHub stars and says eight million developers are building with the platform. Founded in 2020 by two people around a Postgres database, the project says it optimized for developers having a good time rather than for star counts, treating the milestone as evidence of a community that contributed, stayed involved, and built unexpected projects. Its open-source approach centers on supporting existing tools and communities: projects run unmodified Postgres, PostgREST handles billions of API requests daily, pgvector stores embeddings, Deno underpins Edge Functions, imgproxy handles image transformations, and Phoenix supports Realtime at almost 1.5 billion messages per day. The team says it aims to help make Postgres the default database for new internet projects, including by pursuing petabyte scale and pluggable storage.

## Context

The 100,000-star milestone prompted Supabase to reflect on the community around the project and its continued commitment to supporting existing open-source tools and communities.

## Approach / What changed

Supabase describes an open-source, collaborative approach that builds on existing projects and communities. Its platform uses unmodified Postgres, PostgREST, pgvector, Deno, imgproxy, and Elixir Phoenix Framework, while the team plans to support Postgres at petabyte scale and explore pluggable storage.

## Takeaways

- Supabase says eight million developers are building with the platform, which reached 100,000 GitHub stars.
- Every Supabase project runs unmodified Postgres; other platform components include PostgREST, pgvector, Deno, imgproxy, and Elixir Phoenix Framework.
- The team wants to help Postgres become the default database for new internet projects, including through petabyte-scale support and pluggable storage.

**Tags:** [Open Source](https://yomu.fyi/topic/open-source), [Postgres](https://yomu.fyi/topic/postgres), [Scalability](https://yomu.fyi/topic/scalability)

- Source: [Supabase](https://supabase.com/blog/100000-github-stars)
- Source URL: https://supabase.com/blog/100000-github-stars
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-08-29T16:00:53.575Z

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