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Posts
20 from 29 Apr 2021 to 19 Aug 2026
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monthly (7 in the last year)
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company blog
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2026 4

  1. The Instant team joins OpenAI
  2. A backend for AI-coded apps
  3. Counter-Strike Bench: GPT 5.3 Codex vs Claude Opus 4.6
  4. Team features are free through the end of Februrary

2025 10

  1. GPT 5.2 on the Counter-Strike Benchmark
  2. Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike
  3. Count-Min Sketches in JS — frequencies, but without the data
  4. Video: Founding Firebase with James Tamplin
  5. HeroUI helps people build beautiful apps, on top of Instant
  6. Mirando transforms Latin-American Real-Estate on top of Instant
  7. GPT 5 vs Opus 4.1 for Vibe-Coded Apps
  8. How and where will agents ship software?
  9. Sync Engines are the Future
  10. A Major Postgres Upgrade with Zero Downtime

2024 2

  1. Video: Building a Sync Engine in Clojure
  2. Instant raises $3.4M seed to build a modern Firebase

2022 2

  1. A Graph-Based Firebase
  2. Datalog in Javascript

2021 1

  1. Database in the Browser, a Spec

Undated 1

  1. Tutorial