I've joined Supabase!
"Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
— Mark Twain
I'm excited to announce that I've joined the Community team at Supabase! And after my first month here, I couldn't relate more to Twain's quote. I wake up every morning thrilled about the challenges that we face as a company!
What excites me most is that I get the opportunity to shape how Supabase supports the community from the inside, something I've been part of for a while now.
Here's my journey, which isn't some "never give up" story though. It's about something I didn't expect: how engaging with the community with things like hosting meetups and helping random people on Discord with zero agenda, completely changed my career trajectory.
Hosting My First Supabase Meetup
My journey with Supabase started in early 2023, with me using it as a database hosting for a couple of projects I was collaborating on. I got genuinely excited about all the features Supabase offered and I wanted to build something using only Supabase on the backend but never got around to it. I just became a fan of what was possible to build with the platform.
Then in April 2024, I saw a tweet from Yuri inviting people to host Supabase Community Meetups in their cities for Launch Week. My immediate thought was "I'm not the right person for this..." but then I realized... nobody in Ecuador was doing it, so I decided to just go for it! I had no idea what to expect.
On May 1st, 2024 we celebrated our first community meetup in Manta. Twelve people showed up and only one of them had heard about Supabase before, so now eleven more people knew about it, it felt like a victory!
I ended up hosting three more meetups over the following months, and the community kept growing. From those meetups, two new hosts emerged and now we have ongoing Supabase Community Meetups in Manta and Guayaquil, and dozens of people building with Supabase in Ecuador.
That experience taught me something important: the fear of failure had been preventing me from something way more valuable, the chance to actually help others.
From Lurker to Helper - Earning My Badge on Discord
In late 2024, while I was organizing the LW13 meetup, I was also in a bit of a career hole and actively looking for a job. During this job search period, I decided to challenge myself and build something of my own. I created a small web app for photographers called Pikipi using only Supabase as the backend, no REST APIs, no additional services. This was me really trying to understand the platform while staying productive during the job hunt.
I only got a few users, but I learned a lot! Edge Functions, Row Level Security policies, local development, database branching, and more! But most importantly, I realized that now I had answers for several questions I was seeing in Discord. I'd already made the mistakes and learned from them, so I felt like I was ready to start answering some posts.
Again, battling with the fear to fail I questioned myself, "I'm not an expert, what if I give wrong answers?"
But the meetup experience had shown me that being helpful mattered more than being perfect. So I got out of my comfort zone again and started replying to questions.
Something awesome happened, people started replying that my answers and tips worked!
In early 2025, the vibe coding era exploded. I quickly became obsessed with this idea that anyone could build software! I was seeing young tech enthusiasts building gaming platforms and 50+ year old farmers building their own crops tracking systems. It's incredible! All these non-technical people who have no idea what a database migration is (and shouldn't care) were running into issues, and it opened up opportunities for me and others to help beyond just the Supabase Discord so I started helping on the Bolt and Lovable Discords too.
After noticing some repetitive issues, I wrote a couple of articles explaining the solutions and started sharing them in my replies. Suddenly other people from the community started sharing them too! Someone even reached out to me on Twitter months later thanking me for an article. Crazy!
In February 2025 I found a job at a company I genuinely admired. The people there shaped me and inspired me, but my day-to-day was mostly maintening business software.
What I realized is that even though I had found a job, what didn't change was how I chose to invest my free time. I was still drawn to Discord, helping others, and building stuff to try out new features. I felt good there!
After months of helping people on Bolt, Lovable and Supabase Discord, the unexpected happened. Terry from the Supabase team reached out and invited me to be part of the SupaSquad program, a way Supabase supports active community members with sponsorship, direct team access and of course, a cool badge on Discord!
From SupaSquad to SupaTrooper
After some time as an external contributor, Terry reached out again. He was transitioning to become Supabase Community Lead and building a new team to scale community support for the next generation of builders. He invited me to join the team!
I was surprised and said yes immediately. He clarified there would be a regular hiring process with interviews, so I stayed calm and waited for the application process to start.
A month later, other people from the Supabase team reached out to chat about the product and challenges AI builders were facing. I didn't know I was being "interviewed"... but a week later, Terry said something like "Okay, things look good. You have one more call with Ant and another with the people team." to which I replied, "Wait, I was in the hiring process already? I had no idea!" I was very excited on how things were going, but also terrified, I had no idea what to expect.
A week later I got an offer! I was going to be part of one of the fastest-growing startups in the AI era! I was going to be working with people I admired and respected! I was going to be helping the community full time!
I officially became a SupaTrooper on August 4th, 2025.
This Could Be You
For a long time, I was super harsh on myself. I felt like I'd failed as a founder, as an employee, as a professional. I locked myself away from taking chances because I was terrified of failing again. This didn't just stop my growth, it stopped other people from seeing what I could bring to the table.
Does this sound like you? Are you holding yourself back because you're scared of making mistakes?
Don't do it anymore... embrace failure! Take chances! It's not easy, I know, but it's a one step at a time thing.
In my journey, I took small steps. Sometimes with fear, but I took chances anyway: hosting my first meetup (what if nobody comes?!), helping on Discord for the first time (what if my answer is wrong?), writing my first article (what if it's not good enough?).
Every single time, there was a chance of failing. But if I didn't try, if I didn't embrace that chance of failing, I would never have found success.
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
—Theodore Roosevelt
What's Next for Me
It feels like I've been at Supabase for months! The pace at which this team ships and builds is mental! The quality of people is incredible! And the mission of empowering the next generation of builders is something I deeply resonate with.
I want to enjoy this phase as much as possible. I'm still finding my balance and proving myself every single day. There are so many exciting things coming, and I can't believe I get to be part of this!
I'm incredibly grateful, and now it's all about making our community stronger and empowering our Squad members so they can keep moderating, helping, and advocating.
Time to wrap this up, thank you for reading this far! If you're on the fence about taking a chance and getting involved with your communities, I hope my story inspires you to take that leap. You never know where it might lead!