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Re:Local First, Forever by gritzko on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @08:35AM (#40787786)
Ha. I just realized it is 10 years since me, Alexei and Oleg launched our CRDT demo on HN. Funnily enough, it featured this mouse-cursor trick as well. It was a demo of the lib. It was August 2014 if I remember correctly. The post was submitted by Dan Abramov. Nostalgie.

That repo is long abandoned https://github.com/gritzko/swarm

Did CRDTs and local-first advance much since 2014? There is a bunch of research, way more CRDT libs on GitHub, but (somewhat) successful businesses you can count on one hand.

I guess, that is the actual challenge - figure out the business model.

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Re:Local First, Forever by jitl on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @10:06AM (#40788828)
It seems there’s a lot more availability of collaborative text editing features in SaaS apps I think due to the availability of convergent rich text data structures. Those seem to have democratized that specific feature. But I don’t see “local-first” with user-owned data or true decentralized apps being successful as businesses yet.
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