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We have a big announcement to make today: the Instant team is joining OpenAI. We started Instant to make it easy for you to build delightful apps. Over the last few years we saw that most of our users began to use Instant through agents. Agents already em

After 4 years, we're releasing Instant 1.0! Instant turns your favorite coding agent into a full-stack app builder. And we're fully open source. 1 Our claim is that Instant is the best backend you could use for AI-coded apps. In this post we'll do two thi

We're Instant. We give you and your agents unlimited databases and backends. Build whatever you like, from your next startup to an alternative Counter-Strike. Sign up and build your first app in minutes GPT 5.3 Codex and Claude Opus 4.6 shipped within min

February is all about celebrating the people you care for, so we're making team features free through the end of February. You can invite as many members as you like to your free Instant apps and orgs as long as you add them before the end of February. At

About 2 weeks ago we asked Codex 5.1 Max, Claude 4.5 Opus, and Gemini 3 Pro to build Counter Strike . It had to be a 3D UI, and it had to be multiplayer. How good of a job does GPT 5.2 do at this task? Here's the TL:DR: Even though GPT 5.2 is not a coding

In the last week we've had three major model updates: Gemini 3 Pro, Codex Max 5.1, Claude Opus 4.5. We thought we'd give them a challenge: Build a basic version of Counter Strike. The game had to be a 3D UI and it had to be multiplayer. If you're curious,

Our teammate Daniel introduced Count-Min Sketches in Instant (a sync engine you can spin up in less than a minute). Sketches were so small and so fast that I got into a rabbit hole learning about them. The following post came out of the process. I have re

Many of us built on top of Firebase, what was it like to build Firebase itself? We sat down with James Tamplin, the founder of Firebase to go over the early days. We recorded the video of the interview. We h...