The 2025 MVP Tech Stack: Next.js, Supabase, and Why We Chose Them

Let's skip the fluff. You want to build an MVP fast, and you need a tech stack that won't fight you every step of the way. After building dozens of MVPs at F5, we landed on Next.js and Supabase. Not because they're trendy—because the numbers back them up.

The State of MVP Development in 2025

Here's what matters: 89% of teams using Next.js meet Google's Core Web Vitals on their first deployment, compared to 52% with other frameworks. That's not a minor difference. That's the difference between launching on time and spending three weeks debugging performance issues.

Meanwhile, Supabase hit $70M in annual recurring revenue in August 2025, growing 250% year-over-year. More importantly, their community topped 1.7 million registered developers. When that many developers choose a platform, it's not hype—it's product-market fit.

Why Next.js Became Non-Negotiable

Next.js has a 52.9% adoption rate among React developers. But adoption rates don't tell you why it matters for MVPs. Here's what does:

• Server-side rendering out of the box. You don't configure it. You don't debate it. You write your components, and Next.js handles the rest.
• File-based routing. Create a file in the /app directory, and you have a route. No configuration files. No route definitions.
• Built-in optimization. Automatic code splitting, image optimization, font optimization. These aren't features you enable—they're defaults.
• Developer experience that scales. The same code you write for your MVP works when you hit 100,000 users.

The Supabase Advantage

Firebase charges per read, write, and delete. That's fine until your MVP gets traction. Then your database costs spike unpredictably. Supabase uses PostgreSQL with resource-based pricing. You know what you'll pay this month and next month.

But cost predictability is just the start:

The Alternative Stack Nobody Talks About

Could you use Firebase? Sure. It's still "unbeatable for fast prototyping" according to some developers. But here's the part they don't mention: Firebase works great until you need to do something it wasn't designed for. Then you're either fighting the platform or rewriting core features.

Could you build a traditional Node.js backend with Express? Absolutely. But now you're configuring servers, managing database connections, writing authentication from scratch, and deploying two separate applications. For an MVP that needs to launch in 2-4 weeks, that's time you don't have.

What This Looks Like in Practice

At F5, we can get from idea to deployed MVP in under a week with this stack. Here's why:

• Day 1: Initialize a Next.js project. Set up Supabase. You have authentication, a database, and API routes ready before lunch.
• Days 2-4: Build your core features. Next.js handles the frontend. Supabase handles the backend. You write business logic, not infrastructure code.
• Day 5: Deploy to Vercel. It takes longer to write the deploy announcement than to actually deploy.

That's not theoretical. That's how we operate.

The Developer Experience Multiplier

Over 450,000 developers have chosen Supabase, with usage growing 300% year-over-year. Next.js hit 120,000+ GitHub stars with 15% year-over-year growth. These numbers matter because they represent something crucial: when you get stuck at 3 AM debugging an edge case, someone else has already solved it.

The documentation is thorough. The community is active. The Stack Overflow answers exist. When you're building an MVP, this isn't a nice-to-have. It's the difference between a four-hour problem and a four-day problem.

The Bottom Line

We chose Next.js and Supabase because the data is clear: teams move faster, ship cleaner code, and hit performance targets more consistently. Not sometimes. Consistently.

Your MVP timeline doesn't have room for framework debates or infrastructure complexity. Choose tools that let you focus on the problem you're solving, not the problems your tools create.