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API Design & Integration with Supabase

API Design & Integration built on Supabase, chosen where it genuinely fits, and swapped where it does not.

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Why Supabase for this

A webhook without signature verification is an open endpoint. Retries without exponential backoff are a denial-of-service attack on your own partners.

Supabase is strongest at production-grade auth and RLS without building them, on standard Postgres you can leave. For api design & integration that matters because the failure modes of this kind of system tend to cluster exactly there.

The honest trade-off: opinionated in ways that occasionally fight a complex custom auth model. We say that up front because a stack chosen for fashion rather than fit becomes someone's migration project two years later. We start from the constraint, not the capability, what the system must never do, who signs off, and what happens when it is wrong.

You own the code, the models where they are open-weight, and the documentation to run it without us.

The honest assessment

What it is
Postgres with authentication, storage, realtime and row-level security wired in.
Strongest at
production-grade auth and RLS without building them, on standard Postgres you can leave
Trade-off
opinionated in ways that occasionally fight a complex custom auth model
Category
platform

We are not a reseller for Supabase and hold no commission on this choice. Where a different option fits your workload better, the recommendation will say so. That is the entire value of asking us.

What is included

  • OpenAPI specification written before the implementation
  • Versioning strategy that does not break consumers
  • Authentication, scopes and rate limiting
  • Webhooks with retries and signature verification
  • Idempotency on every state-changing endpoint
  • Generated documentation and a sandbox

Questions

REST or GraphQL?

REST for partner-facing and public APIs where caching and simplicity matter; GraphQL where a first-party client needs flexible, varied queries. Most systems end up with both, used deliberately.

Do you document it?

Generated from the OpenAPI specification, with a working sandbox. Documentation written by hand and separately always drifts.

Can you integrate with legacy SOAP systems?

Yes, usually by wrapping them in a clean modern interface rather than exposing the legacy contract onward.

Alternatives for api design & integration

Same capability, different stack. Each page states its own trade-off.

Building with Supabase?

Bring us the workload and we will tell you whether this is the right stack for it.

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