2025.11.06

📰 News & Discussions

Sync Conf 2025 (upcoming event)

"Sync Conf is a boutique conference on the future of real-time, collaborative, agentic software development." November 12th, San Francisco.

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, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST

Sync Conf Community Day

"After the main day of Sync Conf, we're running a community day! We'll be open from 10am - 5:30pm and can use the space for small group discussions, demos, hacking, and other collaborative community work."

Present your work at upcoming FOSDEM conference

"For the first time, the FOSDEM (biggest Free and Open Source conference in Europe) will host a devroom/track specialized in Local First software! You are all welcome to propose your talk, demo, keynote as the CfP is now open, for 30 days. The program will then be announced here too. Looking forward meeting you all in Brussels at the end of January 2026."

Effective React: Lessons from 10 Years - Cory House - NDC Copenhagen 2025 (talk video)

"@housecor at NDC Copenhagen - The future is sync! And, you can use it in prod today, thanks to fabulous platforms like @jazz_tools @ElectricSQL @zero__ms @instant_db @powersync_ @loro_dev and more" - @devYonz

Whither selfhosting?

"I don’t think selfhosting is the future of better software. I think local-first is more promising. On top of the agency that selfhosting offers, local-first software solves many more of the problems that traditional client-server applications sold by cloud providers have."

🛠️ Tools & Resources

Loro Protocol

"The open-source Loro Protocol project includes the loro-websocket package, the adaptor suite in loro-adaptors, and matching Rust client and server implementations that all interoperate on the same wire format."

A deep-dive explainer on Ink and Switch's BeeKEM protocol

"Ink & Switch’s Keyhive project is a capabilities-based system for CRDT authorisation and sync that opens up real possibilities for privacy-preserving local-first apps."

UnisonDB

"A log-native database that replicates like a message bus — purpose-built for distributed, edge-scale systems."

ChEffect - Part 7: A Local-First App built w/ Effect & LiveStore

Part 7 of the series which has been featured on Local-First News in recent weeks.

✨ Apps

Ranger

"In case you missed it: Ranger now runs faster than any of our competitors (YNAB, Monarch, etc.), thanks to @zero__ms" - @GreveJoe

Mdit

"Local File System Storage: Save as .md files to your file system. Works with Obsidian, iCloud, Google Drive, and more"

Show HN: FinBodhi – Local-first, double-entry app/PWA for your financial journey

FinBodhi (previously featured on Local-First News) was recently on HN.

Mesa

"At Mesa we're building the next generation of purpose-built developer tooling for large engineering teams. We just launched our first product, a state-of-the-art code review system and we're already live with over 120 teams in production. We're built fully on Typescript and use Zero heavily. "

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