- Sources: Instant essay, HN discussion
- Summary: Signups for Instant Cloud close and every cloud app shuts down on 2027-08-31, which gives existing users 12 months to migrate. Backups remain until 2028-08-31, and subscriptions started after 2026-07-31 are refunded. Instant is open source and the post links a self-hosting guide.
- Why it matters: The stated migration path is to run Instant yourself, because the post names self-hosting and no replacement hosted service.
- Follow-up: Track the 2027-08-31 cloud shutdown and the 2028-08-31 backup deletion.
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