Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase

Re:Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase by mizzao on Friday August 23, 2024 @10:32AM (#41329368)

A really exciting product from many years ago was Meteor, which included a realtime database layer on top of Mongo that facilitated many very novel realtime apps.

However, it didn't scale well in terms of performance to large numbers of users.

Would anyone have thoughts on comparisons to Meteor?

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Re:Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase by stopachka on Friday August 23, 2024 @02:24PM (#41331607)

Firebase, Parse, and Meteor were definitely inspirations for us.

Instant's main advantage is that we support relations. This means you can create data models like 'users -> comments -> apps'. For a bit more about why this matters, this is a good post:

https://mdp.github.io/2017/10/29/prototyping-in-the-age-of-n...

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