Stop Manually Resuming Your Supabase Database

elyeandre — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:52:14 +0000

The annoying problem

You're building a side project on Supabase free tier. Everything works great. Then you take a week off. You come back. Your database is paused.

Sound familiar?

Supabase pauses free tier databases after seven days of inactivity. It's a reasonable policy, but it's incredibly frustrating for developers working on hobby projects, MVPs, and prototypes.

Every time this happens, you have to:

Log into Supabase dashboard
Find your project
Click "Resume Database"
Wait for it to come back online
Hope it works on the second try

The solution: BasePulse

I got tired of this. So I built BasePulse.

BasePulse automatically keeps your Supabase database alive by sending lightweight pings at regular intervals. No manual work. No setup headaches. Just works.

How it works

Sign in with GitHub at basepulse.app
Add your Supabase project URL
Done

That's it. Your database stays alive automatically. Forever.

Key features

Automated health checks that run every six minutes. Detailed activity logs so you can see that it's actually working. Support for multiple projects if you're running several databases. Optional webhook notifications if you want alerts.

And the best part? It's completely free. No credit card. No hidden costs.

Why I built it

I was tired of losing work time to manual database resuming. So I spent a weekend building an automated solution. It worked so well, I decided to open source it and make it available to other developers facing the same problem.

Get started
Go to basepulse.app. Sign in. Add your project. Done.