We saw it do better at making counter-strike! https://x.com/instant_db/status/1999278134504620363?s=20
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nezaj commented on Show HN: Save Trippy – A Thanksgiving Game savetrippy.com/... · Posted by u/nezaj
I like it! Best to fire around 45 degrees at 100% and glide once you are below the apex it seems. That's the only way I made it home, at least.
Is the turkey rushing home to be sacrificed? Wouldn't we be saving him by failing to get him home
Yea great point! I was thinking maybe adding a picture or some text about eating ham instead! Wasn't sure if that also would be confusing
nezaj commented on How and where will agents ship software? instantdb.com/essays/agen... · Posted by u/stopachka
nezaj commented on How and where will agents ship software? instantdb.com/essays/agen... · Posted by u/stopachka
This article is about teaching coding agents to use InstantDB, which is "a modern Firebase".
I suggest jumping straight to this document, which is designed to tell the agent how to work with Instant but is pretty great documentation for humans who want to understand what it can do at the same time: https://www.instantdb.com/mcp-tutorial/claude-rules.md
Thank you for the kind words on the rules/documentation! It was definitely an iterative process to figure out how to get good results.
We have an llms.txt and llms-full.txt (~9k lines) which contains all our documentation. Feeding these to the claude didn't get great results, it was just too much information.
We manually compressed our llms-full.txt into a rules file (~1.5k lines) which declared the API upfront and provided snippets of how to do different things with callouts to common examples. This condensed version did better but would cause Claude to make subtle mistakes.
Looking at the kind of mistakes Claude made, it seemed like a human could make those mistakes too (very useful feedback for us to improve our API ). We thought “what's one of the smallest fully contained examples we can make that packs a bunch of info on how to use Instant?” That would probably be useful for both a human and an agent. And indeed it seemed to be the case.
InstantDB (YC S22) | Founding Engineers | ONSITE - San Francisco | Full-time | https://instantdb.com
We're looking for talented individuals interested in solving some of the hardest problems in real-time databases and front-end technology. If you love building delightful developer experiences and want to work on cutting-edge tech, we want to hear from you!
Our current stack: Typescript + Clojure + AWS Aurora Postgres
* We offer client SDKs, a CLI tool, and web GUI to interact with Instant. All written in Typescript
* We have a server written in Clojure for managing websocket connections, parsing queries, running permissions, and broadcasting novelty.
* All of which sits on top AWS Aurora Postgres
Open Roles:
* Typescript Engineer - Help build the best type system for our database and improve developer experience.
* Full-Stack Engineer - Build frontend sync engines and UIs that developers use for hours.
* Backend Engineer - Solve hard database problems and build infrastructure to handle 100k+ connections.
Additional details:
* Location: We're based in San Francisco, CA!
* In-person or open to relocation only: We're a small team and we really do prefer all working together in person!
* Compensation: Sliding scale between 0.5%-2% equity and 150k - 200k base + medical/dental/vision benefits
Our vision is to be the infrastructure for all apps of the future. If this jives with you we should really talk . Send us an email: founders@instantdb.com with a bit about yourself, and a project you've worked on.
nezaj commented on Offline-First with CouchDB and PouchDB in 2025 neighbourhood.ie/blog/202... · Posted by u/felideon
it's fully open-source for once
Instant founder here! We're fully open source :)
nezaj commented on Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase github.com/instantdb/inst... · Posted by u/nezaj
I'm curious if something like this would be good for multiplayer games?
We have basic example demonstrating how you can use Instant to make games [1] and a live iOS app built with Instant and React Native [2]