Hey there, you’re one of our active users and we wanted to let you know we’re sunsetting Instant.
In more detail:
New signups will be closed soon. We recommend migrating your apps off of Instant Cloud within the next 12 months. Any subscriptions that were started after July 31st, 2026 will be fully refunded. On August 31st, 2027, all cloud apps will shut down. Backups will stay available for 12 more months, until August 31st, 2028. We’ve written a guide to help you self-host Instant and migrate your apps too. All of Instant is open source, and we’ve worked to make the migration process as seamless as possible. The idea behind Instant started in 2021. We shared a blog post about a database in the browser. It was only an idea, but the more apps we built, the more we saw the need for it. We joined YC in 2022, built a prototype, and shared a version zero.
Turning a prototype into something production-grade was a long journey. The work was hard, but there were many moments of joy. Very early on Daniel joined the team and helped solve some of the gnarliest problems in sync tech. Our community grew, more folks joined [^], and we officially open sourced. From there it was maelstrom of feedback and making Instant better. When time came to really make our TypeScript SDKs ergonomic, Drew joined the team and did just that. From there, over 17,000 users got to try Instant. They made 400,000 apps, and those apps processed about 2.5 billion *transactions.
We’ll be starting a new journey and hope to share more details soon. In any case, it’s been an honor building for you!