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Local-First Conf
Registrace 11. 06. 2024
Learn from engineers, designers, academics, startups, and indie developers who are putting local-first into practice and reaping the benefits of a cloud-optional architecture.
Automerge and Version Control for Rich Text: Alex Good (Local-First Conf)
Speaker: Alex Good, Automerge
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Learn from engineers, designers, academics, startups, and indie developers who are putting local-first into practice and reaping the benefits of a cloud-optional architecture.
Join our discord!
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Subscribe for more talks: @localfirstconf
Follow: localfirstconf
Visit: www.localfirstconf.com
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Thanks to our wonderful sponsors:
- DXOS - dxos.org/ (foundation layer for cloudless, collaborative software)
- Heavybit - www.heavybit.com/ (leading investor in dev-first startups)
- PowerSync - www.powersync.com/ (Postgres and SQLite sync layer)
- Rocicorp - rocicorp.dev/ (creator of multiplayer and sync infrastructure)
- Axil - axil.llc/ (agency focused on local-first software dev)
- Affine - affine.pro/ (workspace merging docs, whiteboards, and databases)
- CrabNebula - crabnebula.dev/ (creator of Tauri, for deploying web technologies as desktop apps)
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Thanks to sceal-studio.com/ for the videos!
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Learn from engineers, designers, academics, startups, and indie developers who are putting local-first into practice and reaping the benefits of a cloud-optional architecture.
Join our discord!
discord.com/invite/unjj72J6gH
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Subscribe for more talks: @localfirstconf
Follow: localfirstconf
Visit: www.localfirstconf.com
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Thanks to our wonderful sponsors:
- DXOS - dxos.org/ (foundation layer for cloudless, collaborative software)
- Heavybit - www.heavybit.com/ (leading investor in dev-first startups)
- PowerSync - www.powersync.com/ (Postgres and SQLite sync layer)
- Rocicorp - rocicorp.dev/ (creator of multiplayer and sync infrastructure)
- Axil - axil.llc/ (agency focused on local-first software dev)
- Affine - affine.pro/ (workspace merging docs, whiteboards, and databases)
- CrabNebula - crabnebula.dev/ (creator of Tauri, for deploying web technologies as desktop apps)
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Thanks to sceal-studio.com/ for the videos!
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Local-First Conf 2024
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Official aftermovie from the world's first Local-First Conference which took place in Berlin on the 30th of May 2024. Learn from engineers, designers, academics, startups, and indie developers who are putting local-first into practice and reaping the benefits of a cloud-optional architecture. Join our discord! discord.com/invite/unjj72J6gH Subscribe for more talks: @localfirstconf Follow: twitt...
Your web app but good: Aaron Boodman (Local-First Conf)
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Speaker: Aaron Boodman, Replicache Can sync engines solve the complexity problems that plague modern web dev? If so, why hasn't that happened? Sync isn't exactly a new idea. In this talk we'll explore the missing pieces needed to take sync mainstream, and how those pieces can enable a new generation of web apps with dramatically better developer and user experiences. Learn from engineers, desig...
Home-cooked Software and Barefoot Programmers: Maggie Appleton (Local-First Conf)
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Speaker: Maggie Appleton, Elicit Machine learning and language models are about to create a golden age of local software, home-cooked apps, and barefoot developers. The local-first community should play a sigificant part in building that future, and make sure it's local-first by default. Learn from engineers, designers, academics, startups, and indie developers who are putting local-first into ...
Two myths about building offline-capable SaaS apps: Paulus Esterhazy (Local-First Conf)
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Speaker: Paulus Esterhazy, Pitch We wanted to build Pitch to be an offline-capable slide editor, and that often meant balancing offline functionality against other factors like complexity and cost. This talk discusses some of these trade-offs. Learn from engineers, designers, academics, start-ups, and indie developers who are putting local-first into practice and reaping the benefits of a cloud...
Streaming a collaborative filesystem: Yifeng Wang (Local-First Conf)
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Speaker: Yifeng Wang, Affine Affine is an open-source knowledge base built on CRDTs. We’ll demonstrate its potential to bridge the gap between collaborative SaaS apps and local file-based apps with a streamable file system. Learn from engineers, designers, academics, startups, and indie developers who are putting local-first into practice and reaping the benefits of a cloud-optional architectur...
Little elephants everywhere: James Arthur (Local-First Conf)
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Speaker: James Arthur, ElectricSQL Remember data serialisation and client side object stores? Well, now, you can just have your Postgres database inside your local app. No more data fetching. No more serialisation. Just the right data, locally, everywhere you need it. Learn from engineers, designers, academics, startups, and indie developers who are putting local-first into practice and reaping...
UCAN - Be in control of your auth: Brooklyn Zelenka (Local-First Conf)
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Speaker: Brooklyn Zelenka, UCAN User Controlled Authorisation Network (UCAN) is a trustless LoFi capability auth system and RPC aimed at maximising user agency by inverting many assumptions about how auth works. Come find out how UCAN helps users own their online presence, ties services together without pre-negotiation, and removes common auth gotchas, all with an intuitive interface. Learn fro...
Local-first and social software: Anton Pronkin (Local-First Conf)
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Speaker: Anton Pronkin, Anytype Although local-first is best known for use in productivity software, at Anytype we believe it can have a role to play in more social software. In this talk I'll describe the practical challenges of scaling Anytype to the hundreds of thousands of users we have today, and what challenges are ahead as we make the product more social Learn from engineers, designers, ...
First local-first: the forgotten history of the early indies: Drew McCormack (Local-First Conf)
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Speaker: Drew McCormack, Agenda As online storage companies like Dropbox became widespread in the late 2000s, mobile app developers saw an opportunity: free online storage with no server maintenance headaches. All you needed to do was sync an SQLite database via flat files. How difficult could it be? Join me on a brief journey into an alternative history of Local First, where Javascript is a di...
Lessons for the future of programming languages from a decade of local first: Alexander Stigson
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Speaker: Alexander Stigson, Realm, MongoDB Realm has now existed for more than a decade, allowing local-first development across multiple platforms. In the process we have learned a lot about how the interplay between databases and programming languages changes in a local first world. I will talk a bit about lessons learned, and argue how it shows that much of what we today think of as database...
Start with offline - an amazing 13-year journey: Philip Lam (Local-First Conf)
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Speaker: Philip Lam, Goodnotes Goodnotes started as offline-first iPad app back in 2011. Local-first principles have served us well as a top-10 app on the App Store with over 30 million monthly active users. In this talk I'll share the technical and business journey, how local-first benefits us and our users, and some challenges we've faced. Learn from engineers, designers, academics, start-ups...
End-to-end encryption demystified: Nik Graf (Local-first Conf)
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Speaker - Nik Graf Building end-to-end encrypted apps requires radically different architecture and design choices. Let's evaluate different approaches and their implications. Learn from engineers, designers, academics, startups, and indie developers who are putting local-first into practice and reaping the benefits of a cloud-optional architecture. Join our discord! discord.com/invite/unjj72J6...
The unreasonable advantage of building local-first - Jack McCloy (Local-First Conf)
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Speaker: Jack McCloy, Snowflake How a local-first architecture can be a competitive advantage for product teams and a business opportunity for infrastructure companies. Learn from engineers, designers, academics, startups, and indie developers who are putting local-first into practice and reaping the benefits of a cloud-optional architecture. Join our discord! discord.com/invite/unjj72J6gH Subs...
Using Effect Schema to enable interoperable local-first applications - Jess Martin(Local-First Conf)
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Speaker: Jess Martin, DXOS Local-first software can enable cross-application interop. However, enabling users to share data across applications is complex and error-prone. We will show how Effect Schema, a modern approach to managing data types, works with distributed data technologies like DXOS ECHO and Automerge to enable a radically better developer and end-user experience. Learn from engine...
Every App secretly wants to be Local-First - Anselm Eikhoff (Local-First Conf)
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Every App secretly wants to be Local-First - Anselm Eikhoff (Local-First Conf)
The why and how of building a local-first music app - Johannes Schickling (Local-First Conf)
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The why and how of building a local-first music app - Johannes Schickling (Local-First Conf)
Unexpected benefits of going local-first - Tuomas Artman (Local-First Conf)
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Unexpected benefits of going local-first - Tuomas Artman (Local-First Conf)
The past, present, and future of local-first - Martin Kleppmann (Local-First Conf)
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The past, present, and future of local-first - Martin Kleppmann (Local-First Conf)
Good stuff and Aaron really listens to his users, even the nobodies. He knows everyone has something to contribute. Great mindset. Best of luck!
Fantastic
Thank you for the thoughtful presentation on this topic! I am inspired to find ways to use my skills to help with the barefoot developers movement!
I had a similar hunch and am glad to see it resonate with people I admire so much! To be more specific my vision was that with the introduction of LLMs that can code many subscription-model and freemium businesses can be put to the sword. This will have the effect of thinning the forest of the trees in the middle - problems that are solved poorly for free, that entrepreneurs offer to solve well for a modest amount of money. If these AI-enhanced barefoot developers do their job right many profitable businesses will face competition from truly free alternatives. This was not possible before because the effort involved and the opportunity for profit available drove people to make professional apps and charge users. These services proliferated a lot and now they are ripe for that forest fire. But the thing is, what will be left will be a fat and growing number of free barefoot software on one end, and an entrenched monolithic empire of Big Tech software on the other end. The middle will also be under constant pressure from people's ever-shrinking disposable income (see the Surplus Energy Economics blog). But this middle is the target of many people's aspirations. Earning a living as an entrepreneur on the Internet, or CZcamsr, etc. As these opportunities taper off the barefoot developer challenge will be replacing the wealth derived by spending money on a handful of subscriptions and paid apps with their free alternatives, built using AI LLMs. Sort of like in the before-times when a lot of the economy was not monetary, but services provided free of charge in the household. For example meal planning apps. Or an even clearer case, plain-text accounting - there are many shiny subscription-model finance apps out there, but beyond the command-line wall lies hledger, or beancount. These work, they're local-first, and can be gotten to do almost anything you want with your finance data. But it's effortful and frustrating to string together commands to get text reports. And visual reports involve even more effort. But eventually this can be solved. And then more and more people will no longer have to pay that subscription.
Would like to propose that we do already have a giant sub-industry within tech that provides charges based on the value it provides rather than the threat to delete data, that we could port over business models from - gaming. Be it f2p, microtransactions, or “battlepass” type models, i think there’s a lot we may be able to learn and apply over to traditional b2b / b2c software as well
Tuomas is the hero we don’t deserve. It’s still a puzzle to me that I can sit and watch all these pioneers share their insights into how they build state-of-the-art applications, for free. What a time to be alive. Thank you for another great talk.
Good
Very interesting. But when I am thinking of it I only can imagine some apps where part of functionality is local first. I can't imagine case where I don't need some centralized data and logic at all.
As I understand it, this is a good usecase for work that involve a couple of people, like in a company (Notion, Excel, Google Docs). Not your social media or youtube stuff.
Why is the intro music so loud?
The intro music broke my speakers.
Why does the intro music want to kill my ears?
great talk. lots of gud takes!
Thanks for this! Think local, shop local, app local 😂❤
Data Syncing is a big topic! Let's talk about it! Anyone here have anything to say on the subject?
JSON? Hmm... How about we standardize on PLY!
Well done: informative, very clear and easy-to-grasp graphics that punctuate the narrative, and confidently presented. Overall, it shows that you've put a lot of thought into this topic. Thanks for your effort.
Amazing talk, very clear and neat.
This is great. But I would like to know what happens when you want to enforce certain rules (that you can not express in a wchema) or what if you need a different type than the one for editing (where everything is optional)
Very very valid points actually 👍
Isn’t barefoot == indie hacker?
Nah, indie hackers (xxi century version) are greedy for MRR and stuff like that 😅 it’s more about the classic software hackers of 80s-90s which did build crazy stuff they envisioned just for the heck of it… but still not the same… I like the idea anyways 👍
Oh my goodness, I have thought about this for some time. I can see a substantial rise in SaaS development catering to niche workflow tasks, and they are genuinely gaining traction. Furthermore, a speech delivered by the founder of Patreon at SXSW resonates with the concept of the "barefoot developer" idea. The talk name was, "Death of the followers".
powerful stuff thanks!
Dam bro something better than Anytype
Loved the talk, great story, great Message and great design!
As a flutter dev, I'm thankful that I decided against all that javascript struggle🎉🎉
Keep telling that Tony yourself
@@Danielo515 Tony?
@@Danielo515 Tony?
You'll cry when Google cancels Fluffer.
Incredible talk. Thank you, Maggie!
This is powerful stuff.
Cool talk. Gets to an interesting point. I've solved both of the hard problems, but it's taken me a custom language with efficient closure serialization to do it. (eyg.run) from the otherside sharing DB's across apps is awesome.
Nice! I really like using postgres. Can't wait to try it out!
Great talk - thank you for sharing!
Congrats on building the foundation of the future!! Can't wait to try out ElectricSQL and PGLite
Very interesting talk. The "hypothetical future sync service" sounds a lot like a Jakarta Messaging to me. JMS already offers a standardised means of asynchronous communication whereby changes made on one device could be published to the service and picked up by another device which is subscribed to the same service.
Like a Git Push or Email?
@@holykoolala Neither really. JMS uses the PubSub pattern: czcams.com/video/wb4qcdb0XWw/video.html
amazing talk
Great event. Thanks for sharing this! I'm looking forward to the next one!
Hum..
Great talk Aaron!
Amazing talk 👏👏👏
WHY IS THIS SO SHORT
The speaking slots were only 25 minutes and there were some technical difficulties that took time away from my slot which were edited out of the video.
@@AaronBoodman Thanks Aaron. I am keen to listen to a more technical talk or presentation
@@mohamedmoussa9635 I’m planning to do one and just release it on Twitter/youtube. What content are you interested in specifically .
@@AaronBoodman Would love to know about the Zero cache to database mapping, and whether this is closer to Replicache's more BYODB or Reflect's opinionated storage.
@@judahdsouza9196 it’s closer to Replicache. However you don’t have to write your own pull endpoint. Zero-cache consumes your upstream database replication stream and exposes it directly to the client (applying auth of course).
Signed up on the mailing list yesterday, can't wait to see the first releases like with Radiant and the potential meta framework with tamagui!
I've been following this movement from a bit of a remove but I’ve been and remain extremely psyched about it. It seems this was a highly impactful conference. I wish I could have been there, but in lieu of that being able to watch the talks via the channel has been wonderful. Thank you to all the organizers and speakers!
Super helpful talk!
Maggie the GREAT!!!
Is there any open source alternative to these paid products?
In the video I mention that we plan to open source Zero this summer.
Oh finally this has been uploaded
@Jack McCloy, any thoughts about the challenges of commercialising local first software? It seems that's a big hurdle to overcome, since a lot of developers like building SaaS because it gives them an easier way of monetising their software.
contacts and table demo got me excited, you can immediately tell what we as app devs and app users were missing out on all this time. great stuff!