Backend Begins

March 16, 2026

Another Monday, Backend Begins

    Monday came with a clear agenda. After spending most of last week grinding through the frontend tasks and getting our individual branches into shape, today marked the start of something new, the backend. We finally began the initial setup of our backend using "Supabase", and just getting that foundation laid felt like another gear shifting in the project.

    Setting up Supabase for the first time in an actual project is different from just reading about it. You have to think about how your data is going to be structured, how the tables relate to each other, and what the system is actually going to need to store and retrieve in real use. We did not finish everything today, this was more of an initial creation, getting the project configured, the connection established, and the first ideas about our database structure sketched out. The real table building would come later in the week.



    It was a quieter kind of productive day. No presentations, no merges, no big events. Just the three of us making steady, unglamorous progress on something that will eventually hold the entire system together. Backend work has that invisible quality to it users never see it, but everything they do experience depends entirely on it being solid. That responsibility is not lost on me.

    I am going into the rest of this week knowing we have a lot of moving pieces to bring together. The frontend still needs its final push, the branches need to be merged, and the backend needs to grow from a skeleton into something real. It is a full week ahead.

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