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Lock Supabase before public users arrive

Demo Supabase projects often leave tables open and service keys in the client. This checklist turns row rules fail-closed, isolates the service role, splits prod from preview, and proves Auth URLs — before public users arrive. Keep the data model you built. Close the defaults.

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In plain words

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Hardening Supabase means row rules deny by default, the service role never ships in the client, preview and prod are different projects, and Auth URLs match the real host. You keep the schema you proved. Public users arrive only after wrong-eye reads fail.

Where vibe Supabase leaks

Open tables feel convenient until strangers show up

Builders enable Auth UI while RLS stays off. Fix rules before ads.

  • RLS off or policies that allow all

    Deny by default. Test cross-tenant.

  • Service role in the browser bundle

    Move server-only. Rotate if exposed.

  • Same project for preview and prod

    Split. Different secrets.

  • Auth URLs still on localhost

    Prod callbacks on the real origin.

The Supabase lock week

Rules → secrets → split → prove

Public users last.

01

Turn RLS on with deny-default policies

Per table. Per tenant key.

02

Quarantine service role to server only

Rotate if it ever touched a client.

03

Create a real prod project

Migrate schema. Fresh secrets.

04

Align Auth URLs and email templates

Prod host only on prod.

How to

How to lock Supabase before public users

Fail closed first.

  1. Step 01

    Inventory tables and who should read them

    Tenant key named.

  2. Step 02

    Enable RLS with deny-default policies

    Probe wrong-eye reads.

  3. Step 03

    Remove service role from any client path

    Rotate exposed keys.

  4. Step 04

    Stand a separate prod project

    Do not promote the demo project.

  5. Step 05

    Fix Auth redirect URLs for prod

    Test sign-in on the real host.

  6. Step 06

    Backup and migration habit written

    Before paid traffic.

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What does “RLS fail-closed” look like on a vibe Supabase project?

RLS enabled on every user table; policies grant only matching tenant or owner; a second account’s select/update returns empty or deny. Open “allow all” policies are a fail.

Where must the service-role key never appear?

Browser bundles, mobile apps, shared chat logs, and committed env files. Server-only paths only. If it appeared in a client, rotate immediately.

How should Auth URLs and email templates differ in prod?

Prod project lists the real origin and deep links; preview keeps localhost or preview hosts. Mixing them breaks sign-in or leaks users to the wrong project.

What backup and migration habits belong before paid traffic?

Scheduled backups, a proven restore onto a scratch project, and migrations applied forward-only with a named owner. Demo-only dashboards are not a plan.

Deny by default before you invite strangers.

Bring the project ref and where the service role lives today. We fail closed — then invite.

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