Why Local-First Apps Haven't Become Popular?

Re:Why Local-First Apps Haven't Become Popular? by bsder on Monday September 22, 2025 @06:54PM (#45340634)

> I believe the lack of popularity is more of an economics problem.

It's also a programming complexity problem.

A local-first app has to run on a zillion different configurations of hardware. A cloud-first app only has to run on a single configuration and the thing running on the user hardware is just a view into that singular cloud representation.

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Re:Why Local-First Apps Haven't Become Popular? by johnnyanmac on Monday September 22, 2025 @08:28PM (#45341414)

It's not easy, but if the money flowed that way devs would figure stuff out. As is, devs who may have an interest in working on it will simply be rejected.

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Re:Why Local-First Apps Haven't Become Popular? by account42 on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @05:55AM (#45344890)

This is really not that much of a problem, most hardware differences are either irrelevant or easily abstracted away (if that isn't already done by the OS).

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