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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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