2025.10.09

📰 News & Discussions

Triplit joins Supabase

"With this acquisition, we're bringing Matt's deep expertise in the offline-first domain into our ecosystem. Our focus isn't to directly integrate Triplit into our platform. Instead, Matt will be working to expand third-party integrations at Supabase. Part of this effort will be making Supabase an excellent partner to other syncing systems such as ElectricSQL, Zero, and PowerSync."

Ossa: Towards the Next Generation Web

"The Ossa Protocol is a secure, decentralized local-first synchronization protocol. The protocol lays the foundation for the next generation web where collaborative web applications are built on the decentralized web architecture previously described."

SyncConf 2025 additional speakers announced

"It was agonizing to choose from among the 34 excellent submissions, but here are the four talks selected from our CFP process!"

The Decentralized Future of Private AI [Illia Polosukhin] - 749

"In this episode, Illia Polosukhin, a co-author of the seminal 'Attention Is All You Need' paper and co-founder of Near AI, joins us to discuss his vision for building private, decentralized, and user-owned AI." "We explore how Near AI is creating a decentralized cloud that leverages confidential computing, secure enclaves, and the blockchain to protect both user data and proprietary model weights."

Local-first mobile app meetup with Expo and InstantDB

"Before SyncConf kicks off on November 12th, join a lot of the speakers and attendees at 752 Harrison for demos, drinks, and food hosted by Expo.dev and Instant." Tuesday, November 11 at 5:00 PM. San Francisco, California.

LiveStore Hands-On #1: WorkSquared

"Real-time code review of Work Squared built on LiveStore. Framework creator Johannes pairs with app author Jess to debug, refactor, and share best practices."

🛠️ Tools & Resources

Introducing Databases Anywhere with Turso Sync

"Today, we’re launching Turso Sync, enabling local SQLite databases to sync anywhere effortlessly, including to and from Turso Cloud." See also other recent Turso news: Introducing Fast, Native Encryption in Turso Database, Introducing Turso in the Browser and Beyond the Single-Writer Limitation with Turso's Concurrent Writes

Building an E2EE Chat App with PowerSync + Supabase

"I built a PowerSync + Supabase React app with end‑to‑end encryption (E2EE), leaning on differential watch hooks for a reactive UI. This is a candid write‑up of the developer experience: smooth parts, clunky parts, performance questions I still want to answer, and where a little documentation and tooling could remove friction for the next person."

ChEffect - Part 5: A Local-First App built w/ Effect & LiveStore

"We're back again with our local-first meal planning app [...] We wanted to test our using Effect in combination with LiveStore on the frontend"

Coding With Jess: LiveStore and the Claude Agents SDK

"Today we're going to be building a LiveStore app that uses the Claude Agents SDK as the 'agentic loop' and interacting with the LiveStore app through custom tools." See also part 2.

✨ Apps

Timelinize

"Timelinize is an open source personal archival suite, designed for modern family history. It organizes all your data onto a single, unified timeline on your own computer." See also HN discussion.

HyperDrift

"HyperDrift is an ecosystem of small but focused apps, tools, and thoughts." "We believe in: Local-first software: Your data should work without the cloud."

Biscuits

"Biscuits' local-first apps are designed to make life easier for you and your family. Free to use forever, no ads, no tracking."

Lokus

"A lightning-fast, privacy-first knowledge management system built with Tauri and React"

Show HN: I built a local-first podcast app

"How it works: It's a progressive web app that stores all your subscriptions and data locally in your browser using IndexedDB. Add it to your home screen and it feels native. Works offline with downloaded episodes. No central server storing your data—just some Cloudflare/AWS helpers to smooth out browser limitations."

FinBodh

"It's a double-entry personal finance tool where you own your data. It’s local-first, syncs across devices, and everything’s encrypted in transit"

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