2025.08.07

đź“° News & Discussions

"Local-first applications do have major benefits for users but I think the DX claims fall off a cliff as your application grows in complexity or volume of data. In other words, the more state your app manages, the harder your life as a developer becomes."

Rethinking devtools: Escaping the Cloud and SaaS trap

"API workflows shouldn’t live in the cloud. A LOT of devtools shouldn’t live in the cloud. Some tools can’t work without it, all good. But a whole lot of them are there just because of some poor design choices."

120 days of hardening – the post‑1.0 reliability sprint | ElectricSQL

"We want sync to be magical infrastructure like S3 and Redis so for four months we went heads‑down on the unglamorous work of reliability engineering chasing every incident on Electric Cloud & every user-reported bug."

Privacy-first architecture: local-first and alternatives to GDPR popup - T3chFest 10 (talk video)

"The popularity of clouds, the rise of huge monopolies across the internet, and the growth of shady data brokers recently have made the world a much more dangerous place for ordinary people—here is how we fix it."

🛠️ Tools & Resources

Automerge 3.0 | Hacker News

Automerge 3.0 (previously featured on Local-First News) recently did the rounds on Hacker News.

SatoriDB

"Satori is a blazing-fast, local-first database with natural language querying built-in. Store and query JSON, graph, or text data — no schema, no boilerplate"

A SwiftData alternative with SQLite + CloudKit: Public beta

"For the past 5 weeks, dozens of Point-Free community members have been testing an alpha preview of our new SQLite + CloudKit synchronization tools. They helped us find numerous bugs and helped us get a better understanding of how people want to use these tools in their apps. And now we are ready to release a public beta of these tools, and we think everyone is going to be blown away by what they are capable of. With just a single statement you can immediately synchronize a local SQLite database to CloudKit so that your user’s data is available on all of their devices."

TanStack DB with Sync – the future of real-time UI

"The benefits are obvious: no stale data, seamless collaboration, and multi-device and multiplayer flows. Many apps could benefit from real-time updates, but most don’t implement them, largely because today’s web frameworks lack built-in primitives. The web is still largely built on a client-request, server-response model."

✨ Apps

SilverBullet

"The SilverBullet client is built as a Local First, PWA, syncing all your content into your browser’s local storage, enabling instant access to your entire space whether you are online or offline."

Epicenter

"Epicenter is an ecosystem of open-source, local-first apps. Our eventual goal is to store all of your data—notes, transcripts, chat histories—in a single folder of plain text and SQLite"

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