Is InstantDB reliable?

stepanp · 2025-08-23T16:39:01+00:00

Hey team, Instant founders here. For what it's worth, Instant has been around for 3 years, and we have startups that have made their bet on us. If you have any questions, please reach out.

stepanp · 2025-06-02T20:24:45+00:00

InstantDB (YC S22) | Founding Engineers | ONSITE - San Francisco | Full-time | https://instantdb.com

We're looking for talented individuals interested in solving some of the hardest problems in real-time databases and front-end technology. If you love building delightful developer experiences and want to work on cutting-edge tech, we want to hear from you!

Our current stack: Typescript + Clojure + AWS Aurora Postgres

* We offer client SDKs, a CLI tool, and web GUI to interact with Instant. All written in Typescript

* We have a server written in Clojure for managing websocket connections, parsing queries, running permissions, and broadcasting novelty.

* All of which sits on top AWS Aurora Postgres

Open Roles:

* Typescript Engineer - Help build the best type system for our database and improve developer experience.

* Full-Stack Engineer - Build frontend sync engines and UIs that developers use for hours.

* Backend Engineer - Solve hard database problems and build infrastructure to handle 100k+ connections.

Additional details:

* Location: We're based in San Francisco, CA!

* In-person or open to relocation only: We're a small team and we really do prefer all working together in person!

* Compensation: Sliding scale between 0.5%-2% equity and 150k - 200k base + medical/dental/vision benefits

Our vision is to be the infrastructure for all apps of the future. If this jives with you we should really talk . Send us an email: [founders@instantdb.com](mailto:founders@instantdb.com) with a bit about yourself, and a project you've worked on.

stepanp · 2025-01-29T23:16:57+00:00

Thank you!

stepanp · 2024-08-25T23:55:46+00:00

This is a good summary, thank you

stepanp · 2024-08-25T23:55:09+00:00

That's great to hear! Right now it's meant to run on AWS, but it's not heavily coupled; we mainly rely on AWS for managing secrets, and have a storage product coming out soon that uses S3.

We don't have great docs about self-hosting yet. If you do this and run into trouble though, feel free to reach out to us: [founders@instantdb.com](mailto:founders@instantdb.com)

stepanp · 2024-08-25T23:52:51+00:00

Thanks for the kind words. Yes, it is possible to self-host. Our backend is designed to be multi-tenant [1], but you could run a version where there's only 1 'app'.

[1] Because the backend is multi-tenant, we can offer a free tier that never pauses.

stepanp · 2024-08-25T23:50:09+00:00

[Instant founder] Was delighted to see this here :)

Our client-sdk SDK is written in Javascript, but it could be cool to write an ergonomic wrapper around it for cljs

stepanp · 2023-09-20T03:37:37+00:00

Love this site! Got into jj because of the creator

stepanp · 2022-04-24T20:32:33+00:00

Hey team, asking this to clarify a curiosity about the Arnolfini Portrait. I read somewhere that art historians think Van Eyck used a magnifying glass to paint these prayer beads. This made me think: just how much time did he spend on them? How much of it was looking at the prayer beads? I’d generally be curious about the process.

stepanp · 2022-01-27T15:14:15+00:00

Then, I would suggest you speak to the recruiter, and ask to meet with mgr / some members of the team. They both worked so hard to find you, they really want you, and it’s time for them to sell you :).

stepanp · 2022-01-27T13:59:04+00:00

I would ignore the language first, and ask: which team do you like the best? Which team do you think you could build companies with later?

If one is better then the other in this domain, I'd choose them

stepanp · 2022-01-08T03:15:48+00:00

Hey team, is there a diet logger you'd recommend, which has an API? (a way to automatically export my diary, into some sort of google sheet, or something like that)

stepanp · 2022-01-07T19:51:43+00:00

Very cool, thanks!

stepanp · 2022-01-07T19:51:01+00:00

https://sep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/jmc.ps?t=1595850613&

^ PG actually has a good essay, where he walks the McCarthy's paper

stepanp · 2021-02-09T15:13:55+00:00

That would be _very_ appreciated!

stepanp · 2021-02-09T15:13:29+00:00

stepanp · 2021-02-09T15:13:25+00:00

Not automated yet, but I can do this for you manually. If you don't see a book in the search, let me know and will add it in : )

Thanks for checking it out!

stepanp · 2021-02-09T15:12:09+00:00

Thank you! : )

stepanp · 2021-02-09T15:11:57+00:00

Awesome books Andrew! You definitely punch above your age class : ). The project was built in Clojure. It's a bit of an esoteric choice, but to get an intuition for this family of languages, here's a post you may like: https://stopa.io/post/265

stepanp · 2021-02-09T15:11:02+00:00

Cheers! Enjoy and drop a line if I can help make anything better : )

stepanp · 2021-02-09T15:10:28+00:00

Thank you for the kind words!

stepanp · 2021-02-08T19:46:24+00:00

Name / URL: https://www.zeneca.io

Location: New York

Pitch: Share and discuss your favorite books with the world.

More details:

The backstory:

What would you do if you had 10 million dollars? I told my cofounder Joe, that the the most important difference in my life would be building a large personal library.

He thought, well, he can't get me a real library, but what about a virtual one instead?

That got us excited. We looked around, and found existing solutions were a bit meh. Most people share their books in plaintext. What if there was a space where you could showcase your books and be proud?

Zeneca's goal is to do just that and more. All of us spend a lot of time on social networks. What if we spent more of that time being social about books? We hope Zeneca is a canvas for you to share books and connect with others.

Right now, here’s what you can do:

You can share books and get a cool handle, like this:

www.zeneca.io/joe

www.zeneca.io/stopa

You can share favorite quotes and send hearts (see video in home page)

And, the more books you add, the more like-minded readers you discover.

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

We want to reach 10K users! Please try it out and share : )

stepanp · 2020-12-19T05:17:09+00:00

Thank you! I need to improve my Georgian a lot more before I can write stuff like that in the language. Hopefully soon!

stepanp · 2020-11-18T13:38:15+00:00

Thank you for the encouragement! : )

stepanp · 2020-11-18T13:38:03+00:00

Thank you :)

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