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artahian commented on Show HN: Modelence – Supabase for MongoDB   github.com/modelence/mode... · Posted by u/artahian
chatmasta · 14 days ago
I remember when Supabase launched calling themselves open source Firebase… it must feel good to be on the other side of that a few years later. That said, they invested in Postgres in 2021… which is different from investing in Mongo in 2025…

Congrats on the launch. But MongoDB seems like a risky horse to hitch your wagon… why did you choose it? I haven’t seen new MongoDB deployments in a _long_ time, and the audience who used to make them (bootcamp graduates, basically) has probably moved onto Supabase.

If I need a NoSQL database I’m going with Elastic/OpenSearch. And I’m using it for a specific reason, e.g. as a landing zone for JSON data with unknown shape at coding time (like for a web scraper). I’m not using it as an application backend and I wouldn’t use Mongo for that either. And of course I'll use Elastic as a search index, but I would never use Mongo for that. The Mongo use case has gotten increasingly narrow.

artahian · 14 days ago
I agree - Postgres has been on the rise for the past years, but I think the reason for MongoDB going down in popularity is not reflective of its own progress - MongoDB has only been technically getting better and they’ve recently bought Voyage AI which is now bringing built-in embeddings with MongoDB Atlas vector search.

The previous startup I’ve co-founded has been running on MongoDB since 2014 and everything was great for over 10 years of using it as our main db, hosting over million users and large enterprise customers.

A lot of this is obviously subjective, but we’ve always found MongoDB’s flexibility work great for a startup’s constant db changes. And we also believe that the existence of “Supabase for MongoDB” will be a good reason for more people to use it.

artahian commented on Show HN: Modelence – Supabase for MongoDB   github.com/modelence/mode... · Posted by u/artahian
8cvor6j844qw_d6 · 14 days ago
Could Modelence Cloud users have a "Change password" option?

I couldn't find an option to change password, and "Forgot password" appears to require contacting support by email.

Also, having an option for 2FA would be great.

artahian · 14 days ago
Yup - it’s work in progress! We will be adding both shortly.
artahian commented on Show HN: Modelence – Supabase for MongoDB   github.com/modelence/mode... · Posted by u/artahian
Guest71022 · 15 days ago
The intro says the product is “AI-native”, but I couldn’t find any details about this in the docs. What does it mean?
artahian · 15 days ago
If you check our landing page, we have a section where we explain that a bit: https://modelence.com

One of the AI-native aspects is if you use the built-in AI SDK (https://github.com/modelence/modelence/tree/main/packages/ai), you get all your AI prompt runs in the built-in dashboard in Modelence Cloud and you can also connect your AI provider (e.g. OpenAI) in the dashboard without having to manually specify the key in the code or pass through environment variables.

But there's more we adding soon - vector search and embeddings that are built into your database / MongoDB documents.

artahian commented on Show HN: Modelence – Supabase for MongoDB   github.com/modelence/mode... · Posted by u/artahian
dangoodmanUT · 15 days ago
Does this have a live layer? Would be a miss if not
artahian · 15 days ago
Do you mean real-time data / live sync? It is actually the next thing we're going to release, so yes - it is definitely a core part. We took our inspiration from https://meteor.com and it had a big emphasis on live data which we're going to support in a more scalable way.
artahian commented on Show HN: Modelence – Supabase for MongoDB   github.com/modelence/mode... · Posted by u/artahian
seper8 · 15 days ago
Looks cool, good luck with the launch!

A well designed login component to go along with this might do wonders for the adoption.

artahian · 15 days ago
Thanks! We do have the auth components here - https://github.com/modelence/modelence/tree/main/packages/au...

Probably need to add screenshots also, but our own platform at https://cloud.modelence.com uses these built-in auth UI from Modelence and a lot of other things it is bootstrapped with.

artahian commented on Show HN: Modelence – Supabase for MongoDB   github.com/modelence/mode... · Posted by u/artahian
WolfOliver · 15 days ago
looking at the examples, it looks more like a Rails alternative?
artahian · 15 days ago
Rails for Ruby is similar with the simplicity and structure (same idea here for TypeScript), but Modelence is more cloud-first focused and less of a pure framework.
artahian commented on Show HN: Stagewise (YC S25) – Front end coding agent for existing codebases   github.com/stagewise-io/s... · Posted by u/juliangoetze
artahian · 24 days ago
v0 and lovable have way too much hype, I think what you're doing with stagewise (i.e. being dev-first instead of optimizing for non-developer users) is the real long term use of AI.

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