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Your AI Startup Growth Path

Based on what we've seen with similar AI startups, here's how your infrastructure needs will evolve — and how to stay ahead of them.

How an AE would use this: Send to a new user in the AI startup segment who is seeing results and has Enterprise potential. "I put together a growth map for you to help scale as your business grows."

Where You Are Now

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Est. storage: 30GB/mo
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Quick Wins (Next 30 Days)

Low-effort, high-impact moves you can make this week

COST SAVINGSStorage

Enable Image Transformations

Serve thumbnails on-the-fly instead of storing 5 sizes of every image. At 500 images/day, you're storing ~18GB of redundant thumbnails.

Save ~$3/mo60% reduction
GROWTHVector

Add "More Like This" Search

Vector similarity search lets users find images like ones they've created. With 1K users, this drives significant engagement.

+15% engagement+150 active users
REVENUEStripe Sync

Sync Stripe to Your DB

One-click sync gets payment data into Supabase. At free tier with ~$500 MRR, you can recover churned revenue automatically.

Recover ~$25/mo5% recovery rate
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90-Day Growth Plays

At 3K users (1.5x growth rate), these become high-leverage

NEW REVENUEEdge Functions

Launch Your API

Expose image generation as an API for developers. Edge Functions handle auth, rate limiting, and billing integration. With a 2-person team, you can support 10% API adoption.

$75/mo potential15K images × $0.05 × 10%
COST SAVINGSCron + Queues

Batch Processing Off-Peak

At 500 images/day, your compute bill is ~$30/mo. Queue non-urgent generations for off-peak hours when compute is cheaper.

Save $9/mo30% reduction
GROWTHRealtime

Live Generation Progress

With 1K users generating 500 images/day, you're getting ~20 "is it working?" tickets/month. Real-time progress kills these.

-7 tickets/mo35% reduction
REVENUERealtime Presence

"250 Users Creating Now"

Show live user count creating images. At your traffic levels, this social proof could boost landing page conversion significantly.

+10% conversion+10 signups/mo
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Enterprise Readiness (6-12 Months)

At 12K+ users, enterprise clients come knocking

Unlock Enterprise Sales

SSO / SAML Authentication
With 2 team members, SSO becomes critical. Unlocks $25K+ enterprise deals.
Audit Logs
Required for SOC 2, HIPAA. Who did what, when.
Row Level Security
One database, ~12 enterprise clients. Each sees only their data. No separate infrastructure per client.

Handle Scale

Read Replicas
At 12K projected users, good to plan for. Distribute read load across regions.
Connection Pooling
~54 concurrent connections estimated. Plan for 10x during viral moments.
Metrics API
SLA reporting for your 12 potential enterprise clients. Stream to Datadog/Grafana.
Projected 12-month users
38K
Enterprise client capacity
12
Min deal size unlocked
$25K
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The Platform Play (If You Want to Go Big)

Become the "Canva for X" — let others build on you

Supabase for Platforms

White-label Supabase for your customers. At 38K users, you could support ~75 workspaces.

Platform revenue potential
$4K/mo
75 workspaces × $50/workspace
Your margins on top of Supabase infrastructure.

Analytics Buckets + ETL

Store all generation data in Analytics Buckets (Apache Iceberg). At 500 images/day, that's 180K data points/year for ML.

Annual training data
180K
images with metadata for model improvement
Competitive moat: Better data = better AI = better product.

This is how I sell.

Not slides. Not generic demos. A growth map built for YOUR business.