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Instant harkens back to a pre-Google Firebase


Instant wants to recapture some of the magic of the pre-Google-acquisition Firebase by building a modern, Postgres-based open source version of it.   Like

Like the original Firebase, San Francisco-based Instant focuses on giving front-end developers easy access to a real-time database with offline capabilities without the need to manage any of the back-end architecture. Instant was founded by former roommates Joe Averbukh(CEO) and Stepan Parunashvili who previously worked at companies like Wit.ai, Facebook, Airbnb, and others. Averbukh argues that competitors like Supabase have to spin up a new database for every project (and free user), while Instant essentially lives in one large Postgres instance.

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