Why Supabase + Postgres beats a custom Node backend for 90% of Dhaka SaaS
Custom Node/Express backends look flexible but cost months of undifferentiated work: auth, permissions, migrations, realtime, storage, edge functions. Supabase gives you all of that on managed Postgres with RLS as your auth layer. You keep raw SQL and full data ownership (it's just Postgres — port anywhere in 20 minutes). We reach for a custom Node stack only when Supabase genuinely can't do the job (heavy background workers, custom binary protocols). That's rare.

