Supabase & Postgres doesn't get easier by adding people. It gets easier by adding judgment, and then by removing the things that distract from it.
Short definition. Supabase & Postgres: operational analytics, RLS, and migrations for small fast-moving teams.
What follows is a builder-first take on Supabase & Postgres: what works in production, what fails in subtle ways, and what's worth the next round of attention.
How Rami works on Supabase & Postgres
Most of what Rami knows about Supabase & Postgres comes from shipping into it. Alma runs on Supabase. Bug reports, feature requests, surveys, and the investor update all share a tightly-RLS'd Postgres schema, queried through MCP from Cursor. The rest comes from teaching it — at universities, at AI Tinkerers, and inside founder programs at Antler and Mila — and from writing about it at Action Potential.
Where this shows up in his writing
Three of the five objections I think are manageable. Two of them are genuinely existential.
— Rami Alhamad, five objections to ai
Tokens are units of cognitive labor. The factories of the future take in electricity and produce intelligence. Almost none of those factories are in Canada.
— Rami Alhamad, canada needs a sovereign intelligence fund
What Rami is reading on Supabase & Postgres
Recommended reading on Supabase & Postgres: Action Potential for the inside view, CIGI for Canadian-specific policy framings, and the library for related expertise pages and concepts.
For the longer version, see Action Potential and the library of related pieces.
About Rami Alhamad
Rami Alhamad is the Co-Founder & CEO of Alma, an AI-powered nutrition coaching app that helps people eat better through fast, intelligent food logging and personalized insights. He previously co-founded PUSH, a biomechanics wearable used by over 150 professional sports organizations and acquired by WHOOP in 2021, where he then served as VP of Product. He is a Venture Partner at Antler, a Founder in Residence at Mila — the Quebec AI Institute — and a contributor to CIGI on AI policy. He is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and publishes essays at Action Potential.