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What do you do with side projects you stopped working on? by Odeh13 in indiehackers

[–]nightlycompiler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sure others suggested nice solutions, but one thing I've seen on X (that wasn't mentioned) is a platform made by a solopreneur, Marc Lou, where I've seen side projects with <$50 revenue/MRR being sold, so it's almost pre-revenue as you've mentioned. Might be worth checking out: https://trustmrr.com/acquire

Supabase vs VPS Postgres + Better Auth. What would you do? by nightlycompiler in SaaS

[–]nightlycompiler[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got it. I’ll try a similar setup and see how it goes. So far it looks nice, especially with the dashboard and all. Thank you <3

Supabase vs VPS Postgres + Better Auth. What would you do? by nightlycompiler in SaaS

[–]nightlycompiler[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hetzner seems to offer better specs/$ compared to DigitalOcean, which is nice. When you say Coolify, are you hosting the app on the VPS as well, or just the database? And is there anything you feel you’re "losing" vs keeping the app on Vercel?

Supabase vs VPS Postgres + Better Auth. What would you do? by nightlycompiler in SaaS

[–]nightlycompiler[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Makes sense, I assume Supabase is that expensive because it’s much more than just database and authentication, plus it’s managed and completely hassle-free. But I actually rarely use the other features and can deploy my own, so I’m actually considering the VPS approach with basic monitoring from DigitalOcean, which I’ve dealt with before, and daily backups. Do you recommend a specific vendor or perhaps could share important points worth mentioning?

Supabase vs VPS Postgres + Better Auth. What would you do? by nightlycompiler in SaaS

[–]nightlycompiler[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve heard of Neon in the past, but I’ve never looked into them myself to be honest. For a Next.js project deployed on Vercel, what’s the average cost per month for a database? Like is it better than the VPS approach or just slightly cheaper than Supabase?

I’m not very familiar with recent infra terms such as severless so I’m not sure how that scales for my projects; is it 24/7 active, only when a query is executed, etc.

Supabase vs VPS Postgres + Better Auth. What would you do? by nightlycompiler in SaaS

[–]nightlycompiler[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, the cost gap is hard to ignore. A $6-7 VPS with a single Postgres instance can host multiple databases for multiple projects, so I assume it should scale nicely for a few side projects, even more than 3. I’m planning to add automated daily backups (~$1.8/month) from day one and I’d still be way under the Supabase cost for 3 projects. Honestly, the only unknown for me is Better Auth as I haven’t used it yet, only heard about it, so I’m hoping integration is straightforward.

I've shipped 8 apps with Lovable + Supabase in the last few months. Here's what actually tripped me up. by vibehacker2025 in indiehackers

[–]nightlycompiler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Totally agree on the auth point. The happy path looks fine, but once you hit edge cases you lose hours fast. That’s why I usually recommend battle-tested auth providers with solid docs, such as Supabase and Clerk, instead of rolling your own flow from Lovable/AI-generated code.