Case Study: Mobbin improves authentication and cuts costs with Supabase

How Mobbin migrated 200,000 users from Firebase for a better authentication experience

Mobbin, a Singapore-founded design inspiration platform serving over 200,000 creators, grew rapidly after a Product Hunt launch but ran into scaling problems with Firebase. The team struggled with duplicate logins across authentication providers, concerns about data integrity from failed serverless functions, and rising costs from millions of API requests.

Mobbin migrated to Supabase, using its GoTrue-based authentication and Postgres-backed relational database to improve the login experience and support a more reliable backend. With Supabase, Mobbin fixed its auth issues, gained confidence in data integrity, improved performance, and significantly reduced monthly spending by avoiding per-request charges.

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Jian Jie Liau

Co-Founder and CTO