Over the past weekend I tried using [InstantDB](https://www.instantdb.com/) again, and was more or less blown away. The _ease_, the deep and profound sense of being able to simply build the product rather than the system, was palpable. ![[CleanShot 2025-02-19 at 18.15.36.png]] Each one of the usual app layers has to be written for a greenfield project. It is definitely possible to use frameworks to accomplish much of this for you[^1], but most of them don't handle the network layer if you're building a client-side app. ![[CleanShot 2025-02-19 at 18.37.53.png]] Enter Instant! You're entire backend as a hosted service you don't have to worry about. Yes, you're giving up a lot of control with this approach, but you're gaining _so much time_. The time it takes to iterate on the product is decreased immensely. Everything is 10x faster this way. Not only that, but the _product is better_. It's better because it's snappier, it works on spotty networks, and it syncs between browsers. But is it better than AI? Yes. Well, if I had to choose one... I'd be sorely tempted to choose Instant. Luckily we don't have to choose. Instant is your system and AI writes your UI. You dear post-technical entrepreneur just need to manage your product, find market fit, talk to your users, etc. [^1]: I'm thinking Rails, Laravel, Django and the like