---
title: '100,000 GitHub stars'
description: >-
  Supabase hits 100,000 GitHub stars. A reflection on community, open source,
  and what got us here.
author: paul_copplestone
date: '2026-04-02'
tags:
  - community
  - open-source
categories:
  - company
---
We hit 100,000 GitHub stars!! [github.com/supabase/supabase](http://github.com/supabase/supabase)And today, we have eight million developers building with Supabase.That feels surreal.When we started Supabase in 2020, there were two of us and a Postgres database. We never optimized for stars. We optimized for developers having a good time building things and stars are a side effect of that. But hitting a milestone is a good chance to reflect. It represents a community that showed up, stuck around, and built things we never anticipated.Supabase is an open-source project. Our [Product Principles](https://supabase.com/docs/guides/getting-started/architecture#product-principles) have remained unchanged since we started. One of the ones that's most dear to me is supporting existing open source tools:> *Supabase supports existing tools and communities wherever possible. Supabase is more like a "community of communities" - each tool typically has its own community which we work with. Open source is something we approach collaboratively: we employ maintainers, sponsor projects, invest in businesses, and develop our own open source tools.*Some of the open source tools that have supported us to this milestone:* [Postgres](https://github.com/postgres/postgres). Every Supabase project runs unmodified Postgres. Postgres is becoming the default database for every new project on the internet.
* [PostgREST](https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest) powers billions of API requests daily across Supabase and beyond.
* [pgvector](https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector) is now the default way to store embeddings in Postgres.
* [Deno](https://github.com/denoland/deno) is the foundation for Edge Functions.
* [imgproxy](https://imgproxy.net/blog/supabase-the-open-source-firebase-alternative-picks-imgproxy/) powers every image transformation on our platform.
* [Elixir Phoenix Framework](https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix) is the foundation for our Realtime server and delivers almost 1.5B messages daily.To everyone who starred, contributed, filed issues, answered questions in Discord, or built something on top of Supabase: thank you.We are not done. We think Postgres can be the default database for every new project on the internet and we hope to help drive that - whether that's by helping it to [scale to petabytes](https://multigres.com/) or [adding pluggable storage.](https://www.orioledb.com/)Thanks for all the stars.-- Copple and the Supabase team