Notes

  • Had been unhappy with tarditional approaches to software
  • Local-only is not local-first
  • Must be able to work wit WiFi off
  • The app much survive the developer going out of business and shutting down their servers(!)
    • ”Incredible journey resistent”
  • P2P would be nice, but hard today
  • Dropbox, Google Drive, etc will probably still work in 10 years
  • LoFi Endgame
    • Generic sync service
      • Doesn’t care about the app or data specifics
      • Commodotise means interop
      • Means that P2P can be an opportunistic enhancement :D
    • For devs
      • No β€œbackend team”
      • No 24/7 on-call rotation
      • No network error handling code
      • No more maying through the nose for cloud services
      • Simpler!
    • Changing the economics of software
      • Smaller teams, more niche apps, etc
      • What’s the biz model? Need to figure out a new SaaS

QUOTE

In local-first software, the availability of another computer should never prevent you from working