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After 4 years, we’re announcing Instant 1.0.
Instant is the best backend for AI-coded apps.
Let us tell you why.
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Stepan Parunashvili.
Honor and Freedom.
- 2 years, YC, 5 team members, and 2000 commits later: Instant is now open source!
00:00 - One month ago we open sourced @instant_db and had one of the largest Show HN’s for a YC company. Today we're announcing a $3.4M seed round. We're backed by YC, SV Angel, James Tamplin, Paul Graham, Greg Brockman, Jeff Dean, and over 50 technical angels.
- 🎉Today is launch day! 🎉 Hey ya'll :) Today we have three exciting features to announce! Optimistic Updates, Offline Mode, and React Native Support
00:00 - Sync engines are the future. @nikitonsky wrote a post to explain why: "People don’t want quarter-inch drill bits, they want quarter-inch holes. Paraphrasing that for programming: people don’t want databases. They want data."
- We’re looking for a hacker to join the founding team at @instant_db, on-site in San Francisco. Why join us, when you can start a company yourself or work at an OpenAI? Here's our case:
- In 1931, a 25-year-old Kurt Gödel wrote a proof that turned mathematics upside down. The implication was so astounding, and his proof so elegant that it was…kind of funny. I wanted to share that discovery with you. Here's the essay :) stopa.io/post/269
- When you have trouble with procrastination, before you use the hammer of discipline, ask: “How can I make this compelling and irresistible?”
- Today @instant_db is releasing an API to let humans and agents spin up full-stack backends Each backend comes with database, sync engine, auth tools, file storage, as well as presence And it's all hosted on multi-tenant infra You can create millions of DBs in milliseconds
00:00 - "Graph Based Firebase" stopa.io/post/296 How can we make it easy to build apps like Figma, Notion, or Linear? @JoeAverbukh and tried to find an abstraction, and landed on Instant: a graph-based database in the browser. This essay goes over the design journey.
