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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
Community Voice & Feedback
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:
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! 🚀
Instant looks great for an app I have in mind. I will try it over the weekend. Congratulations.
This looks powerful. What’s the fastest thing someone can realistically build with it today?
Congrats on the launch! I’ve been using InstantDB for over a year now and it is the best database I ever used, now I start all my project with it, our users love it too
Pumped for this launch. Been using Instant for the past week and it's been a thorough joy to use.
Congrats on the launch. 4 years is a long time to keep pushing on something this hard.
Congrats on the launch!Been building on Instant with a small team for over 2 years and it's been a game changer. Real time sync between our WhatsApp bot and web dashboard just works with no extra effort. The DX is excellent (shoutout to schemas, perms and recovery). Highly recommend 🚀
My favourite tool out there, congrats on launching! 🚀
Hey PH! After 4 years of building, we want to introduce you to Instant!We think Instant is the best backend for AI-coded apps. It gives you three things in one package: unlimited apps, a sync engine in every app, and batteries-included services.Here's what that means:Unlimited apps. Most platforms cap your free projects or freeze them when they go idle. Instant never does. An app on Instant is just a few rows in multi-tenant Postgres, so there are no VMs to spin up and nothing to pause.A sync engine. All your apps will be real-time and work offline out of the box. This is the same kind of technology that powers the best apps today like Figma, Notion, and Linear.Batteries included. Auth, file storage, and streams all live in the same database. Everything you need to build a modern app is built in, so you can focus on shipping.And every line of Instant is open source! If you want to dive deeper on how we make this all work, you can check out our architecture essay at https://www.instantdb.com/essays/architectureThousands of developers have trusted us to run their core infrastructure. If you're building with agents, we think you will love using us.You can use Instant without even having to sign up. Just add “Read getadb.com first” to any prompt and the AI will automatically get a database to use.And if you prefer the terminal you can get a full project set up by just running `npx create-instant-app`
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