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Re:Local First, Forever by mritchie712 on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @09:15AM (#40788214)
Linear[0] is local-first and monetizes just fine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37491239

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Re:Local First, Forever by braden-lk on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @09:23AM (#40788305)
Sorry, to clarify in my case: Monetizing consumer products. Selling to companies is indeed much easier.
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Re:Local First, Forever by baobabKoodaa on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @09:24AM (#40788316)
Sure, and there are also developers who live off pure donations "just fine", but pointing this out is not useful.

It's easier to build a cloud based subscription business.

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Re:Local First, Forever by jFriedensreich on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @11:00AM (#40789487)
how does linear keep working if the company disappears?
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Re:Local First, Forever by socksy on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @03:35PM (#40792645)
This is not part of the requirements for localfirst, it's part of the eventual goals. Here linear meet the requirements because you can continue to edit offline, and if they have a server outage then you don't lose your data because you have a local copy.

However a collaborative software is of course useless in the long term if you can't collaborate anymore.

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Re:Local First, Forever by jFriedensreich on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @04:53AM (#40797842)
that is absolutely false, this is the KEY differentiator over "offline first"
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