nezaj
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Comment · 2 months ago
+1 to Clerky being a great product. Was super useful for us when incorporating and after as well
Comment · 5 months ago
Agreed. It is curious how the agent got nudged to add auth in that one.
I did another ad-hoc but this time I added "Use guest auth" to the prompt. This way you don't need to enter an email. Full prompt below
Create a habit tracking app where users can create habits, mark daily completions, and visualize streaks. Include features for setting habit frequency (daily/weekly), viewing completion calendars, and tracking overall progress percentages. Use guest auth
Aesthetic version: https://with-aes-guest-auth.vercel.app/
Non-aesthetic version: https://wo-aes-guest-auth.vercel.app/
I'd give the edge to the aesthetic one.
Comment · 5 months ago
When you're experimenting on ideas, it's really nice when time to hello world is near zero. It's also nice when you aren't limited to a certain number of dbs or your projects get paused. This makes it so much more delightful to hack.
When you do want to get closer to the code, we think Instant provides a nicer abstraction for working with agents and getting deligthful experiences like a sync engine out of the box
Comment · 5 months ago
Funny enough we added this in awhile back when it seemed more conclusive that this does matter.
But I was curious and just did an adhoc eval.
Here's a version with the aesthetic line included
Here's a version without the line
Everything else is the same. Will let y'all be the judge which is better.
Both where made in one-shot with this prompt:
Create a habit tracking app where users can create habits, mark daily completions, and visualize streaks. Include features for setting habit frequency (daily/weekly), viewing completion calendars, and tracking overall progress percentages.
Comment · 6 months ago
Always been able to host it! We’ve had docker compose instructions since open sourcing.
Instant has evolved quite a bit in the last 18 months. With all the new functionality self-hosting has become a bit more fiddly.
This PR is aimed at making the process for self-hosting even easier.
Comment · 6 months ago
You can use `db.subscribeQuery` on the server to react to react to changes. We plan to add webhooks soon to make this even easier. And yes eventually we'd love to support SDKs in other languages too!
Comment · 6 months ago
I think Stopa has a great answer here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47711803
You can certainly use Instant without AI! We indexed on making the API easy to understand so projects built with Instant are easy to maintain. We also invested in our AX experience since we saw more folks coming to us when trying to build apps with AI
Comment · 6 months ago
We use LWW on the attribute level which greatly reduces conflicts. There are certainly cases where you'll need a different CRDT but this works great for a lot of use cases.
Including Figma! https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology...
Comment · 6 months ago
We've been around long enough that the LLMs already natively know how to use us!
If you give them a little bit of context they can use the platform fully.
Comment · 6 months ago
PR in progress!
Comment · 6 months ago
You can! Everything is open source and we have instructions on running the server with docker.
Working on making this even easier for folks https://github.com/instantdb/instant/pull/2495
Comment · 6 months ago
Appreciate it! We thought it was a nice touch too and a fun way to highlight the power of Instant!
Realizing we didn’t highlight this as a use case — but you can use our ephemeral app feature (it’s free) to easily add your own interactive demos into essays!
Comment · 6 months ago
Thank you!
Comment · 6 months ago
We’re 100% open source and have instructions for getting the server up and running via docker
We’re also working on a PR to make it even easier to deploy
Email: ^ @gmail