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
PH · launched Apr 22, 2026 · 323 upvotes (top 31%) · 0 views
Niche: backend development platforms and services · 94 launches, 6 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
- Database
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More like this: all 94 launches in backend development platforms and services →
Could you build this?
No InstantDB is a complex real-time database engine offering offline sync, relational queries, permission resolution, and transactional infrastructure built from scratch.
What it would actually take: Requires deep systems engineering, distributed systems expertise, and database internals (written in Clojure/Java). It involves building custom client-side caching (triple-store like Datomic), real-time query subscription diffing, transaction logging, relational resolver engines, and reliable optimistic sync protocols.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 73 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #31 of 74 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 153 days after the earliest competitor.
- GETadb.com · hn · 2026-05-08 · 39 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- CrescoDB · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- The complete backend for your app · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- minibuildai · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- BuildBase App · ph · 2026-09-25 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- JOYTREE · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Scribase · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- LaunchDB · ph · 2026-11-05 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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