Instance
Launched this week
From idea to app–in an Instance (iOS, Android & Web)
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Instance is an AI-powered app builder for iOS, Android, and the web that lets you create apps, games, and websites by describing them in plain English. If coding has ever slowed you down, Instance will help you bring your ideas to life.
Instance
👋 Hey Product Hunt!
A few years ago, my co-founders and I set out to make coding more accessible and built @Mimo, which has since helped some 35 million people learn to code. Today, we’re launching Instance and, ironically, might make coding… optional.
Instance is an AI app builder for iOS, Android, and the web. It’s made for designers, founders, and PMs with ideas for apps, games, tools, websites, etc., but little or no coding experience. A friend recently described it as his “developer buddy”.
Here’s how it works:
You tell Instance what you want to build (via text or voice; more to come)
Instance creates a fully functional product (built-in support for databases; more to come)
You extend and iterate through conversations
Considering we spent 8+ years teaching people to code, launching Instance might sound like self-disruption. But honestly, it feels like fulfilling the mission we started: making software development accessible.
Early testers have already created amazing products with Instance (some even made it to top spots on PH). Give it a try, build something of your own (perhaps even launch it on PH), and tell us what you think.
And stay tuned for more!
Henry, Johannes, Dennis, Lorenz & team
LLM SEO Monitor
@hgllnt excited to be part of this launch. It's been a game changer for us at Candycat allowing us to build & ship 10x faster.
Instance
@peterbuch So great to hear that! That's exactly why we built Instance: to help teams like yours bring ideas to life faster than ever. Excited to see what y'all will build next 🚀
Waffle
Can you share a bit about the tech stack? How is Instance itself built?
Instance
Thanks for the question, @__tosh !
Our mobile apps are built natively with Swift/Kotlin. The Web platform is using a NextJS/Typescript stack running on Vercel.
On the Backend we're using Typescript/Node hosted on Google Cloud Run for our API and Kubernetes to host each individual Instance!
Some other stuff we're making use of:
cursor.com for all development - most of our codebase is built using AI
instance.so for creating internal tooling 🤓
revenuecat.com for subscription management
LiteLLM as LLM gateway
neon.com as database
Waffle
You have a ton of experience with helping people learn to code, why are you now shipping a tool that helps everyone ship real apps without having to code? Is learning how to code over?
Instance
@__tosh Great question! We’ve spent almost a decade helping people learn to code because we believe software development should be accessible to everyone. But for many Mimo learners, coding was a means to an end: they wanted to build software (and not necessarily become developers). For them, learning to code could be a long journey with many ups and downs.
I think Instance is not the end of coding but the beginning of broader access to building software.