We need to kill SaaS. Apps should be local-first and have peer-to-peer data sync. These companies won't stop until they use your data to replace you and enrich their owners.

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rogerthis 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Beautiful on paper. But it does not scale outside a certain type of tech people.

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an0malous 6 hours ago | parent [-]

What’s the scaling bottleneck? If you made a local-first, P2P version of Figma what would break first? For a company of like 50 people, I doubt you’d have more than 100GB of data so it should fit on everyone’s computers. The P2P syncing part seems solvable, even if you need a centralized handshake server somewhere. And from the user perspective I don’t see why the UX couldn’t be identical, so it’s all the same to them.

It seems like the real bottleneck is something else.

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moring 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> If you made a local-first, P2P version of Figma what would break first?

The guy who has to keep it running day by day, next to the other 30 local-first systems.

	▲	an0malous 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		What is there to run? There are millions of apps that don’t require maintenance, this was the default before SaaS.