Folks from the local-first movement https://lofi.software are coming together to do something special and we would love your feedback on our landing page & value prop.
I learned how to build a web application with FE, BE, DB, and distributed workers for my first job. But it wasn't until I read his book that I understood the enormous gap between building web apps and planet-scale web applications. The book saved me from bombing my interviews.
Well said. After linear.app showed the jump in UX for local data ('moving databases as close to users as possible') it became really easy to answer the questions below by saying checkout linear.app
* Why do we need local-first?
* We don't need offline support
* Google already has all my data, don't care about data ownership (a little orthogonal)
P2P Matrix (https://arewep2pyet.com) is our answer to peer-first community software, but it's currently on hiatus thanks to funding issues. The best I can propose is normal Matrix - and then when P2P comes along, it'll replicate onto clients as easily as it replicates onto servers today.
Meanwhile, bsky is perfect for twitter replacement, imo,
