Audience
Developers interested in a solution to build their applications and improve collaboration
About Instant
Instant is for building real-time and offline-enabled applications. We make it easy to build collaborative products like Notion or Figma. The best apps today have a common feature set. Every interaction happens instantly, you rarely see loading screens, collaboration is easy and delightful, and the app still works when offline. Instant solves problems for you by giving you a database you can subscribe to directly in the browser. You write relational queries in your app, and we handle the rest. Instant was born when we realized that some of the hardest UI problems are actually database problems in disguise. When you solve problems at the database layer, your software becomes more powerful and succinct. When apps are at their best, every change a user makes should reflect instantly. There should be a few spinners, loading states, or refresh buttons. With Instant, optimistic updates are handled for you.