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Supabase Builds Your Backend — Not Your Back Office
Supabase gives you a backend: Postgres, auth, APIs, storage, realtime. What it deliberately doesn't give you is the internal operational app your team runs the business on. Here's the gap, and the cleanest ways to fill it.
Igor Shtanko · 4 min→
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Generated vs Hand-Built: The Hidden Cost of UI Builders
UI builders like Retool, Budibase, and Tooljet let you draw screens by hand. dForge generates them from a model. Here's why that architectural difference decides how consistent, secure, and maintainable your app is two years from now.
Igor Shtanko · 9 min→
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AI Made Internal Tools Easy to Build. Keeping Them Alive Is the Hard Part.
AI lets the people who understand a workflow build the tools that run it. The hard part is keeping them alive. What makes an internal tool durable, and how dForge approaches it.
dForge Team · 4 min→
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