Supabase free project paused and my users couldn't log in all weekend

Free projects pause after about a week without activity. You have a few options:

• Pro plan: never pauses. $25 is the honest fix if people depend on it.
• Ask the church to cover it, $25/month for a tool 30 people use weekly is reasonable.
• Keep it active with real usage. Some people schedule a ping (e.g. GitHub Actions cron doing a small query every few days). That keeps it awake, but it's working around the policy and could stop working if they change what counts as activity.

I wouldn't bet a weekly Sunday service on the ping trick.

If the app is small and mostly reads, also look at whether it needs a hosted DB at all. A static page + a Google Form might honestly do. Not every church app needs Postgres :)

We run a similar volunteer thing on a GitHub Action ping every 3 days, going on 5 months now without a pause. Works, but mira's caveat is right.