Case Study: Chatbase scales to $1M in 5 months with Supabase

Bootstrapped founder builds an AI app with Supabase and scales to $1M in 5 months

Chatbase, founded by Yasser Elsaid, is an AI chatbot builder that trains ChatGPT on a customer’s own data. Faced with the challenge of quickly turning an idea into a reliable product as a solo founder, he needed a cost-effective backend to handle authentication, data storage, and customer interactions at scale. He chose Supabase to power the core infrastructure for the app.

Using Supabase Database, Supabase Auth, Supabase Storage, and Supabase Realtime, Yasser built Chatbase in just two weeks and launched quickly. The product then scaled rapidly, reaching 2,000,000 visitors, 2,200 paying customers, and $1,000,000 in annualized revenue within five months. Supabase helped save an estimated 100 to 150 hours of development time by consolidating the backend into one solution.

Chatbase

Yasser Elsaid

Founder