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Instant is the best backend for AI-coded apps. You get auth, permissions, storage, presence, and streams — everything you need to ship apps your users will love.

38 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 3 stories, 35 comments · first 2024-08-22 · latest 2026-08-20

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  1. …- August 2024 (297 comments) https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/instant https://github.com/instantdb/instant
    comment by toomuchtodo · 2026-08-20 · in Instant (Instantdb.com) Sunsetting
  2. Oi! Updated. Should be live in a few minutes, but here's the PR: https://github.com/instantdb/instant/pull/2642
    comment by stopachka · 2026-05-08 · in Show HN: GETadb.com – every GET request creates a DB
  3. PR in progress! https://github.com/instantdb/instant/pull/2495
    comment by nezaj · 2026-04-10 · in Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps
  4. …have instructions on running the server with docker. Working on making this even easier for folks https://github.com/instantdb/instant/pull/2495
    comment by nezaj · 2026-04-10 · in Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps
  5. …the server up and running via docker We’re also working on a PR to make it even easier to deploy https://github.com/instantdb/instant/pull/2495
    comment by nezaj · 2026-04-10 · in Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps
  6. Good idea! I went ahead and updated the essay: https://github.com/instantdb/instant/pull/2530 It should be live in a few minutes.
    comment by stopachka · 2026-04-09 · in Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps
  7. For what it's worth, Instant is 100% open source! https://github.com/instantdb/instant
    comment by nezaj · 2026-04-09 · in Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps
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    InstantDB: A Modern Firebase
    story by reichertjalex · 2025-12-03 · 0 comments
  9. Good idea! Added the PR for it here: https://github.com/instantdb/instant/pull/2010 Once this lands lightbox should be up. Thank you!
    comment by stopachka · 2025-11-29 · in Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike
  10. …demos are local, I didn't add Instant in this case. One little trick I did for data was here: https://github.com/instantdb/instant/blob/main/client/www/co... Mainly: I wanted to get all counts for Wodehouse, but didn't want to block the…
    comment by stopachka · 2025-10-23 · in How count-min sketches work – frequencies, but without the actual data
  11. …self-hostable. Everything you see on instantdb.com is open source, and hosted in one monorepo here: https://github.com/instantdb/instant
    comment by stopachka · 2025-08-30 · in Offline-First Landscape – 2025
  12. …Instant is fully open source. The UI, the sync engine, and the multi-tenant database live here: https://github.com/instantdb/instant
    comment by stopachka · 2025-07-16 · in How and where will agents ship software?
  13. …keyword to coordinates). [1] https://github.com/kenrick95/ikuyo/blob/main/.env.example [2] https://github.com/instantdb/instant [3] https://www.maptiler.com/
    comment by kenrick95 · 2025-06-11 · in Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application
  14. Instant founder here! We're fully open source :) https://github.com/instantdb/instant
    comment by nezaj · 2025-05-02 · in Offline-First with CouchDB and PouchDB in 2025
  15. …transactions in process, the function could abort the migration and try again another time. [^1]: https://github.com/instantdb/instant/blob/main/server/src/in... [^2]: https://github.com/instantdb/instant/pull/743
    comment by stopachka · 2025-01-30 · in A major Postgres upgrade with zero downtime
  16. …that with enough effort it could also be a few seconds. I updated the essay to reflect this: https://github.com/instantdb/instant/pull/774/files
    comment by stopachka · 2025-01-30 · in A major Postgres upgrade with zero downtime
  17. …PgBouncer. I could see it be an option though if we couldn't scale down to "one big machine". [1] https://github.com/instantdb/instant/blob/main/server/src/in...
    comment by stopachka · 2025-01-30 · in A major Postgres upgrade with zero downtime
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    Instant (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer to Help Build a Modern Firebase
    story by stopachka · 2024-11-12 · 0 comments
  19. …Essay about Instant's design: https://www.instantdb.com/essays/next_firebase Open Source Repo: https://github.com/instantdb/instant Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41322281
    comment by stopachka · 2024-11-01 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)
  20. …Essay about Instant's design: https://www.instantdb.com/essays/next_firebase [2] Open Source Repo: https://github.com/instantdb/instant [3] Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41322281 [4] https://www.figma.com/blog/keeping-figma-…
    comment by stopachka · 2024-10-01 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)
  21. …https://www.usevelvet.com/ As well as these guys: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41322281 https://github.com/instantdb/instant
    comment by samstave · 2024-08-29 · in Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code
  22. Thank you, I went ahead and fixed them [1] [1] https://github.com/instantdb/instant/pull/29
    comment by stopachka · 2024-08-24 · in Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
  23. …[2] For roll-out, we'll test it ourselves first and then take on beta users. [1] Encrypted at rest: https://github.com/instantdb/instant/blob/main/server/src/in... [2] Here's a fun 'pg introspection' function:…
    comment by stopachka · 2024-08-23 · in Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
  24. This is on our radar and made an issue for tracking and visibility [1] [1] https://github.com/instantdb/instant/issues/19
    comment by nezaj · 2024-08-23 · in Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
  25. Yes, the server is open sourced here: https://github.com/instantdb/instant/tree/main/server
    comment by stopachka · 2024-08-23 · in Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
  26. …in the codebase. Here's a fun introspection query, which definitely awed me about Postgres' powers: https://github.com/instantdb/instant/blob/main/server/src/in...
    comment by stopachka · 2024-08-23 · in Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
  27. Thanks for the request! Made an issue to track this here! [1] [1] https://github.com/instantdb/instant/issues/19
    comment by nezaj · 2024-08-23 · in Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
  28. …And yes you can self host today. We have instructions on standing up a server on our github [1] [1] https://github.com/instantdb/instant/tree/main/server
    comment by nezaj · 2024-08-23 · in Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
  29. …comes from in permissions, but we'd be happy to add that in. I've opened up a ticket here [1]. [1] https://github.com/instantdb/instant/issues/18
    comment by stopachka · 2024-08-23 · in Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
  30. You can already self-host! We have instructions on standing up the server on our github [1] [1] https://github.com/instantdb/instant/tree/main/server
    comment by nezaj · 2024-08-23 · in Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
  31. The backend is completely open source. The code is in the `server` directory: https://github.com/instantdb/instant/tree/main/server
    comment by stopachka · 2024-08-23 · in Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
  32. …[2] For roll-out, we'll test it ourselves first and then take on beta users. [1] Encrypted at rest: https://github.com/instantdb/instant/blob/main/server/src/in... [2] Here's a fun 'pg introspection' function:…
    comment by nezaj · 2024-08-23 · in Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
  33. Not related to Instant, but saw that the backend is available on their Github: https://github.com/instantdb/instant/tree/main/server
    comment by mrmanner · 2024-08-23 · in Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
  34. …setting myself up for issues later. Btw I guess you created a new repo for the public release, so https://github.com/instantdb/instant/blob/main/server/src/in... is the link for others. Great to see the open source release, congrats! : )
    comment by IanCal · 2024-08-23 · in Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
  35. …as we built Instant. Fun fact, datascript actually supports our in-memory cache on the server: https://github.com/instantdb/instant/blob/main/server/src/in...
    comment by stopachka · 2024-08-22 · in Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
  36. …[2] We programatically generate queries for the Instant Explorer itself: https://github.com/instantdb/instant/blob/main/client/www/li...
    comment by stopachka · 2024-08-22 · in Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
  37. …[3] https://www.figma.com/blog/livegraph-real-time-data-fetching... [4] https://github.com/instantdb/instant/blob/main/server/src/in...
    comment by stopachka · 2024-08-22 · in Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
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    Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
    story by nezaj · 2024-08-22 · 297 comments