What is Supabase?
Supabase is the open-source backend most AI-built apps already lean on: a real Postgres database, user authentication, instant APIs, file storage and realtime subscriptions in one box. Lovable, Bolt and Cursor projects reach for it by default — which is exactly why it's worth knowing you can run it yourself.
The hosted free tier has a catch every builder eventually hits: inactive projects get paused, and your app is down until you notice and click resume. Self-hosted Supabase doesn't pause — your database is a real service on a real server, up whether or not you looked at it this week.
On livemy.app you pick the Supabase template, click deploy, and your backend is live with SSL in about two minutes. Point your app's connection string at it and everything — users, data, files — lives on a server you control, at a price that doesn't move with usage.
Same app, no meter running
These tools are free and open source. What you normally pay for is someone else's server — and their pricing page.
Three steps, about two minutes
Everything the app needs to stay up
Self-hosting Supabase, answered
How much does it cost to self-host Supabase?
Will my AI-built app work with self-hosted Supabase?
Does self-hosted Supabase pause like the free cloud tier?
Is self-hosted Supabase hard to maintain?
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The backend behind most AI-built apps.



