About how sometimes it's better to throw away and forget.

Continuing the story with Supabase.

By the second or third day I was already thinking that maybe I should have picked something else. But every time it felt like a little more and it would take off. And then there would be happiness. It never came.

After the fifth day it got harder. Throwing it away already hurt: a lot was tied to it, the server was paid for, and it seemed "almost working". But it still didn't feel right.

At some point I set myself a deadline: if it didn't work properly by then, I'd drop it. No "one more evening", no "let's try this".

It didn't take off, so I threw it away. Moving everything to a plain database took another half a day, and I went back to building features.

I don't know how much longer I would have kept fiddling with that trendy solution. Sometimes you have to admit you've already buried a lot of time and drop it anyway. It's annoying, but otherwise you bury even more.