GoKawiilAfter 4 years, we’re releasing Instant 1.0!
[ 1 ] Instant turns your favorite coding agent into a full-stack app builder. And we’re fully open source.
Our claim is that Instant is the best backend you could use for AI-coded apps.
In this post we’ll do two things. First we’ll show you a series of demos , so you can judge for yourself. Second, we’ll cover the architecture
The constraints behind a real-time, relational, and multi-tenant backend pushed us towards some interesting design choices. We built a multi-tenant database on top of Postgres, and a sync engine in Clojure. We’ll cover how all this works and what we’ve learned so far.
Let’s get into it.
Demos
When you choose Instant you get three benefits:
You can make unlimited apps and they’re never frozen. You get a sync engine, so your apps work offline, are real-time, and feel fast. And when you need more features you have built-in services: auth, file storage, presence, and streams.
To get a sense of what we mean, I’ll dive into each point and show you how they look.
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