The Project That Quietly Died While I Wasn't Looking

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The project

I built Kenya Tours, a tour booking site at kenya coast tours, so people could book local tours online. Nothing huge. A Next.js frontend, Supabase behind it for the database, auth, and storage. The kind of project you build, launch, feel good about, and then life happens.

And life happened. I started a new job. It was the kind of role where you're learning a stack of unfamiliar systems fast and putting out fires on production infrastructure that isn't yours to lose, so your own side projects quietly slide down the priority list. I knew, somewhere in the back of my head, that Supabase pauses free-tier projects after enough inactivity. I'd read that warning before. I just didn't think about it again for months.

The moment I noticed