Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

Re:Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal by CobrastanJorji on Thursday February 19, 2026 @07:29PM (#47081970)

I wonder what the state of workflow engines is these days. Back in the (distant, distant) past, everything seemed to use Lotus Notes. Today, there are oodles of workflow engines of all shapes and sizes, but asides from domain-specific stuff like Salesforce, I hardly hear anyone mention them.

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Re:Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal by j45 on Thursday February 19, 2026 @07:47PM (#47082143)

I helped a legacy Lotus Notes application reincarnate once, and it was impressive how reasonably solid it's ability was to be offline-first, and mobile first, and how fewer sychronization/replication errors there were than I expected.

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Re:Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal by CobrastanJorji on Friday February 20, 2026 @03:25AM (#47085244)

Lotus Notes was doing decentralized apps built with NoSQL databases before either of those things were cool. Mostly because "going online" was potentially quite an undertaking at the time.

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Re:Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal by j45 on Saturday February 21, 2026 @09:46AM (#47101316)

Agreed - Lotus Notes def is an example of a working NoSQL database that scales in relating data as well where other noSQL databases only dream of.

Being offline-first has it's advantages too.

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Re:Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal by shakna on Thursday February 19, 2026 @10:20PM (#47083251)

Salesforce is used well beyond its domain, unfortunately. A lot of BAs love the drag 'n drop design features.

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