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by stopachka 5mo ago
Admittedly stateful GET requests are heretical, but it may be the future!
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by stopachka 5mo ago
Two reasons this could make sense: 1. With this, agents can actually deploy a full backend with their credentials [^1]. 2. If your agent ever wants to add auth, or real-time presence, or file uploads, or streams, they'll be able to do
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by stopachka 5mo ago
This post seems to "throw doubt" on Bun, based on the OP's experience of Claude Code. But this seems unnecessary indirect. It's not like Bun is hidden software: it's open source and actively developed. So the more d
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The math behind how LLMs are trained and served(dwarkesh.com)
1 points by stopachka 5mo ago|0 comments
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by stopachka 6mo ago
Here's a 2-line prompt that gives Claude Design a backend: ``` <YOUR APP IDEA HERE> ---- To get your credentials and learn about InstantDB, fetch this URL: https://instantdb.com/llm-rules/create-app/AGEN
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by stopachka 6mo ago
I am surprised how overwhelmingly negative the comments are here. I would have expected at least a few voices defending Flock. I'll step in and add a voice. Ultimately, Flock is solving a real problem with crime. This is why police dep
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by stopachka 6mo ago
My choice of the word "logically separated", was meant to specifically answer the question the reader asked: > If someone else's account is compromised, how do I know I won't be? If you have other questions, you can f
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by stopachka 6mo ago
Brightened reading this, and the whole team was rooting you on for your Show HN!
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by stopachka 6mo ago
> Any example more complex in the backend? The home page has some examples of complex startups that use Instant as their core infra: https://www.instantdb.com/#:~:text=Startups%20love%20Instant > Are we supposed to ex
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by stopachka 6mo ago
Photon looks interesting! I am not too familiar with it, but from what I understand Photon and WebRTC are for communicating messages between clients. Those messages can be very fast, because they aren't blocked by writes to disk. Insta
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by stopachka 6mo ago
Thank you for the kind words. > AI emphasis It's not quite marketing or a pivot. We've just noticed that most of our users are coding with AI, and really optimized for that too.
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by stopachka 6mo ago
Thank you. > Curious if you considered shipping the engine itself as a standalone infra piece. We are thinking about supporting something like "Bring Your Own Postgres", which would allow folks to opt into just the sync engine
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by stopachka 6mo ago
If by backend you mean functions, you are right, we don't support this just yet! We give you an Admin SDK, which you can run in frameworks like NextJS, or inside systems like CF workers. We are definitely thinking about bringing this a
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by stopachka 6mo ago
> Supabase We are similar to supabase in the sense that we support a relational database. We're different in that with us, you get real-time queries, offline mode, and optimistic updates out of the box. > Pocketbase I am not too
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by stopachka 6mo ago
I would say: We both offer a real-time queries out of the box. I am not 100% sure, I but think Convex also set up a multi-tenant database; so they can offer a good number of free projects well. The way I would differentiate Instant: With Co
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by stopachka 6mo ago
Thank you. > Is React the only first class citizen in this stack? Each system gets the same functionality. We centralize the critical logic for the client SDK in "@instantdb/core". React, Svelte, Tanstack, React Native et
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by stopachka 6mo ago
That's a fair statement! I would say we are similar to supabase in that we offer a relational backend. We are different in two ways: 1. Supabase runs on VMs, so only supports 2 free projects. We built the backend to be multi-tenant, so
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by stopachka 6mo ago
A few reasons: 1. Unlimited projects: when you spin up traditional backends, you usually use VMs. It's expensive to start many of them. With Instant, you create unlimited projects 2. User experience: traditional CRUD apps work, but the
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by stopachka 6mo ago
If someone else's account is compromised, you would not be, because apps are logically separated. There would be no way for the compromised or uncompromised account to ever see your data. If Instant is compromised, then that's a l
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by stopachka 6mo ago
One data structure that helps a lot is the grouped queue. I cover it in the essay here: https://www.instantdb.com/essays/architecture#:~:text=is%20t... To summarize: In places where we process throughput, we generally
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by stopachka 6mo ago
If I understood you correctly: You kick off an agent. It reports work back to the user. The user can click cancel, and the agent gets terminated. You are right, this kind of UX comes very naturally with Instant. If an agent writes data to I
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by stopachka 6mo ago
> 5 usd node will handle 100k mau without breaking a sweat. One problem you may encounter with the 5 usd node: how do you handle multiple projects? You could put them all in one VM, but that set up can get esoteric, and as you look for m
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by stopachka 6mo ago
Good idea! I went ahead and updated the essay: https://github.com/instantdb/instant/pull/2530 It should be live in a few minutes.
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by stopachka 6mo ago
> really building multiplayer apps like Figma, Linear I think there's two surprises about this: 1. If it was easier to make apps multiplayer, I bet more apps would be. For example, I don't see why Linear has to be multiplayer,
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by stopachka 6mo ago
I would say NextJS focuses a lot more on server-rendering. If you use the app router, the default path is to render as much as you can on the server. This can work great, but you lose some benefits: your pages won't work offline, they
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by stopachka 6mo ago
Thank you! We spent a lot of time with the demos on the home page, the essays page, and upgrading the docs. We're going to redesign the dashboard in the next few weeks. One interesting observation from our users: though they use the da
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Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps(instantdb.com)
215 points by stopachka 6mo ago|124 comments
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by stopachka 7mo ago
Would love to learn more about the sound and motion sensor. How did implementing that go?
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by stopachka 8mo ago
> Original ideas are the result of the very work you’re offloading on LLMs. I largely agree that if someone put less work in making a thing, than it takes you to use it, it's probably not going to be useful. But I disagree with the
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by stopachka 8mo ago
Claude Sonnet 4.6

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