I've been using instantdb in anger for the past month or so for a side project of mine. I'm building a personal budget app.

I should probably write a blog post, but I will say that I investigated power sync, electricSQL, livestore and powersync before. I briefly looked at jazz tools but wanted something a bit more structured.

I'm pretty impressed this far. I've actually been writing it with Vue and a community library. Permissions were a bit tricky, but once I figured it out it was simple. And I like their magic email login. And I like their dashboard/reply, but there are a few big changes I would make there to make it less fiddly.

I love that it's open source, and that if I want to, I could self host it.

As for the other options:

- jazz wasn't structured enough

- livestore came off as too fiddly with the event store, but it was appealing. That the dev tools are payealled was disappointing, but understandable

- electriSQL really only provided half a solution (read, not the write model

- couchDB / pouchDB wasn't structured enough for me, and I wanted better cross document support than was obvious / baked in.

- did not investigate zero really