LevelFive-Studio lifts Mike off Supabase and drops it on AWS
A wholesale re-platforming of the upstream Mike codebase onto an AWS-native stack, branded helix-tribune and pointed at UK users.
LevelFive's fork swaps out almost every piece of plumbing under Mike. Supabase (the open-source backend-as-a-service the upstream relied on for database, auth and storage) is gone. In its place: a managed Postgres database on AWS, containers running on AWS's Fargate service, file storage on S3, transactional email through SES, and identity handled by Clerk, a hosted login provider. The frontend moved off Cloudflare's hosting onto AWS too. The app has been renamed helix-tribune and defaults to the London region.
One thing worth noting for anyone evaluating the fork: Supabase's row-level security - a database-level safety net that blocks one user from reading another's rows even if the app code has a bug - is no longer in play. Every access check now lives in the application code itself. That's a deliberate trade for portability, but it removes a backstop.
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