2025.09.11

📰 News & Discussions

An Interactive Guide to TanStack DB

"Learn what TanStack DB is, how it works, and why it might change the way you build apps."

LiveStore Office Hours #5

"▪︎ Progress update on version 0.4 ▪︎ New Cloudflare Adapter (using Durable Objects) ▪︎ Community presentations (lots of AI demos)"

hnfm: Building a Local-First AI Podcast Generator for Hacker News

"hnfm is my hackathon project for the OpenAI Open Model Hackathon. It's an application that takes Hacker News articles and automatically transforms them into podcast-style videos using a full suite of AI models."

Using Misdirection to Make a Local-First App Load Fast

"The good news is that, after a user's first visit, everything gets loaded from a service worker with no perceptible delay, but first impressions are important, so I wanted to do something about that dismal initial loading time."

🛠️ Tools & Resources

Peerbit

"Peerbit is as easy-to-use as Firebase and provide P2P functionality like OrbitDB or GunJS yet with performance for data-intensive applications like live-streaming and cloud-gaming. It’s built on top of Libp2p (and works with IPFS) supporting encryption, sharding and discoverability (searching)."

Syncing PostgreSQL in the browser (ElectricSQL)

"Ever wondered how to keep your PostgreSQL database synced between clients in a browser? ElectricSQL is trying to solve just that!"

✨ Apps

Excali Organizer

"I’m excited to share something I’ve been building: Excali Organizer — an open-source, local-first browser extension designed to make working with Excalidraw more organized, seamless, and private."

Show HN: Slingshot – a fast, FOSS and local-first HTTP API client

"The main differences from many other API clients are its focus on being light-weight and fast, to not require an account to use it, mobile-friendliness, to be local-first and to the greatest extent respect your privacy, while at the same time be very competent for using and testing out HTTP APIs."

I switched from Notion to a local alternative for this one reason

"So, the great debate between Notion and Obsidian — at least for me — is finally over. For years, I was forced to choose between Notion’s powerful databases and Obsidian’s speed and local-first approach. But with the arrival of Obsidian Bases, that compromise is a thing of the past."

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