Supakeep - Prevent Supabase project from being paused due to inactivity
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Keep your Supabase projects active and prevent them from being paused due to inactivity.
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A Problem that Annoyed Me Here's what happened to me: I was working on my side projects, using Supabase's generous free tier. Life gets busy, and I don't touch the projects for a week... and just like that, my projects that use Supabase for backend are paused. Even worse? I left some projects to be inactive for 90 days and it gets permanently archived. I learned this the hard way when I had to do these to recover my archived project:
Create a new Supabase project
Download my archived database
Perform a painful database migration
Update all my environment variables
After running into this problem multiple times, I decided to build Supakeep to solve this once and for all
What is Supakeep? Supakeep is a simple, free tool that automatically keeps your Supabase projects alive by sending periodic API requests every 3-7 days. It's like a heartbeat monitor for your projects.
Key Features
Set & Forget: Add your projects once, and never worry again about Supabase pause
Free & Reliable: Powered by cron-job.org's infrastructure
Privacy First: Your data stays in your browser, never stored on our servers
No Registration: Start using it immediately
30 Projects: Manage up to 30 Supabase projects for free
How It Works
Add your Supabase project URL and anon key
Choose your ping interval (3, 5, or 7 days)
Supakeep creates automated cron jobs via cron-job.org
Your projects stay active forever
Why I Built This As a developer juggling multiple side projects, having Supabase projects randomly pause was incredibly frustrating. The free tier is amazing, but the inactivity policy can catch you off guard. I wanted a solution that was:
Completely automated (no manual intervention)
Privacy-focused (no data collection)
Free (solving this shouldn't cost money)
Perfect For
Side project builders
Startup MVPs and prototypes
Developers experimenting with new ideas
Students learning web development
Anyone using Supabase's free tier
The Technical Bits
Built with Next.js, React, Typescript, Tailwind, shadcn/ui, magicui, Docker, Coolify, Hetzner, v0.dev, Cursor
Uses Supabase's REST API for keep-alive pings
Integrates with cron-job.org's API for scheduling of regular calls to Supabase's REST API
All data stored locally in your browser. No database that I use for this.
Why This Matters Supabase is incredible for rapid development, but losing projects to inactivity can kill momentum on side projects. Supakeep removes that friction, letting you focus on building instead of babysitting your backend.
Try Supakeep now at https://supakeep.xyz Have you ever lost a Supabase project to inactivity? How do you keep your side projects alive? Let me know in the comments! 👇 #Supabase #SideProjects #WebDev #Automation #FreeTier #Developers #NoCode #Backend #Startup #MVP
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A Problem that Annoyed Me
Here's what happened to me: I was working on my side projects, using Supabase's generous free tier. Life gets busy, and I don't touch the projects for a week... and just like that, my projects that use Supabase for backend are paused.
Even worse? I left some projects to be inactive for 90 days and it gets permanently archived. I learned this the hard way when I had to do these to recover my archived project:
Create a new Supabase project
Download my archived database
Perform a painful database migration
Update all my environment variables
After running into this problem multiple times, I decided to build Supakeep to solve this once and for all
What is Supakeep?
Supakeep is a simple, free tool that automatically keeps your Supabase projects alive by sending periodic API requests every 3-7 days. It's like a heartbeat monitor for your projects.
Key Features
Set & Forget: Add your projects once, and never worry again about Supabase pause
Free & Reliable: Powered by cron-job.org's infrastructure
Privacy First: Your data stays in your browser, never stored on our servers
No Registration: Start using it immediately
30 Projects: Manage up to 30 Supabase projects for free
How It Works
Add your Supabase project URL and anon key
Choose your ping interval (3, 5, or 7 days)
Supakeep creates automated cron jobs via cron-job.org
Your projects stay active forever
Why I Built This
As a developer juggling multiple side projects, having Supabase projects randomly pause was incredibly frustrating. The free tier is amazing, but the inactivity policy can catch you off guard. I wanted a solution that was:
Completely automated (no manual intervention)
Privacy-focused (no data collection)
Free (solving this shouldn't cost money)
Perfect For
Side project builders
Startup MVPs and prototypes
Developers experimenting with new ideas
Students learning web development
Anyone using Supabase's free tier
The Technical Bits
Built with Next.js, React, Typescript, Tailwind, shadcn/ui, magicui, Docker, Coolify, Hetzner, v0.dev, Cursor
Uses Supabase's REST API for keep-alive pings
Integrates with cron-job.org's API for scheduling of regular calls to Supabase's REST API
All data stored locally in your browser. No database that I use for this.
Why This Matters
Supabase is incredible for rapid development, but losing projects to inactivity can kill momentum on side projects. Supakeep removes that friction, letting you focus on building instead of babysitting your backend.
Try Supakeep now at https://supakeep.xyz
Have you ever lost a Supabase project to inactivity? How do you keep your side projects alive? Let me know in the comments! 👇
#Supabase #SideProjects #WebDev #Automation #FreeTier #Developers #NoCode #Backend #Startup #MVP