InstantDB - Complete backend with auth and storage in one prompt
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Instant turns your favorite AI into a full-stack app builder. You get auth, permissions, storage, presence, and streams — everything you need to ship apps your users will love.
Free to use, 100% open source. and works well for both vibe coding and production apps!
You can get started by simply running `npx create-instant-app` in the terminal or just add “Read getadb.com first” to any prompt
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Your Next Store
One of the strongest database products from the «newer wave»!
Super easy to get started: setup is fast and the whole thing feels lightweight without cutting corners. It integrates really nicely with the React & Next.js ecosystem (matters a lot in my day-to-day work) Under the hood it's built on a solid foundation with clear innovation happening, not just a wrapper around old ideas.
Small detail but I really appreciate the use of Clojure, not something you see often and it shows a certain level of taste in engineering. :)
On the downside, search could be better, the main thing I'm looking forward to improving.
I'm somewhat biased since I know the team, but even that aside, this is already one of my favorite db/dev tools.
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@zaiste Appreciate the thoughtfulness. And yes Clojure is awesome :) Hear you on making search better, something we want to unlock!
Scaffolding apps is one of those things that sounds simple but gets boring fast, same folders, same setup every time. Instant makes that whole step feel almost invisible, which is kind of amazing.
I was genuinely surprised by how clean everything came together.
Congrats on the launch! 🚀
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@matheusdsantosr_dev Thank you! And yea, scaffolding can add some serious friction. One of the things we wanted with Instant is to make that as lightweight as possible so Instant can work with whatever setup you like!
Cal.com
Been building apps for years, and Instant feels like magic.
That moment when you see your app running across multiple devices in real time? Those are the ones that matter. Instant gets you there in minutes.
Beyond the amazing stack, the team behind it are some of the kindest, hardest working people I've ever met. Joe and Stopa are really cooking.
Congrats on the launch!
Here's a screenshot of my first Instant app:
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@betomoedano Heck yeah Beto! Appreciate the support and love seeing your videos!
findable.
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@erikavanbruggen heck yeah Erika! We love seeing what folks build :)
Stanley For 𝕏
This looks powerful. What’s the fastest thing someone can realistically build with it today?
wit.ai
I've been using InstantDB for more than a year. The problems the product solves may seem "easy to do with x or y".. until you actually try to do it and discover the edge cases, perf issues etc. + the team is executing very fast.
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@lxbrun Thank you, still remember your apps as one of our first :)
Theneo
👀👀👀👀 looks great, will give it a try soon
Shortwave
I'm a huge instant fan -- the ability to have realtime + relational queries + true offline mode is a huge win for devs. (I'm one of the Firebase founders and the three of this together is HARD)
Kudos to the team for making a complex engineering challenge look effortless.
Your Next Store
It's amazing what you can do when you build on postgres.
I love the fact you can start with your library of choice (i.e. Drizzle) and then gradually start using InstantDB SDK.
Congrats on the launch!