AI Mania V6 is here — Why I Rebuild Everything from scratch

Bogdan Andronic — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 15:12:40 +0000

Until version 5, AI Mania was built on Firebase for database, authentication, and storage. However, one major concern kept me up at night: 𝒄𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒍. Firebase doesn’t allow you to set a maximum spending limit, only alerts, meaning you could end up with a huge bill if you’re not careful. That risk was just too high for me.

Why Supabase?
To address this, I decided to switch to Supabase. It offers similar services to Firebase — PostgreSQL database, authentication, and storage — but with one crucial difference: 𝒃𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒕-𝒊𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒍. You can stop everything before it runs up a massive bill, which is a huge relief! Plus, both platforms offer serverless functions, which I’m a big fan of.

Looking Forward
Thinking about future developments for the website, I believe an SQL database is a better long-term solution for my site. Supabase also makes it easier to optimize images and integrate them with the Next.js image component (harder to achieve that with google storage), which is a nice bonus.

𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝒊𝒏 𝑨𝑰 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒂 𝑽6?

new design (in beta)
improved mobile responsive
news/articles have table of contents etc
better categories
Next.js app version (backend + frontend)
New CMS (payload as headless vs firecms)
Supabase (database) + GraphQL
Authentication (coming soon)
Serverless functions (scheduled tasks, etc.)

𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑺𝒐𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒊𝒏 𝒗6

Speed Performance Optimisation
AI guides (free)
AI (generative HTML on search, advanced search capabilities, tool suggestions based on needs, etc.)
AI chat / AI training
Ability to add your own AI Tools
And ... (I’ll reveal this feature after it launches!)

𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔?
Have you used both Supabase and Firebase? Which one do you prefer?

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AI Mania V6 is here — Why I Rebuild Everything from scratch