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Sure, any one company probably will - but there’s a whole market. As soon as that one company abandons the local-first model, a gap opens, which will (usually,
by LeftHandPath 7y ago
Sure, any one company probably will - but there’s a whole market.
As soon as that one company abandons the local-first model, a gap opens, which will (usually, eventually) be filled by a new company offering local-first until that new company does the same.
As long as the companies don’t band together and agree to end it, there should be a company offering that model somewhere somehow.
- mwilcox 7y agoEven in the situation I described, the original company would leave the free / client side version on the site as free marketing. This is the standard today for enterprise-monetised open source software. Solving this problem isn't about being local-first. It's about being local-last. You have to be able to make more money by selling a software license than you make by selling equity and chasing user acquisition and retention. Then we'll see people waking up to the fact that all this proprietary data is a liability and subscriptions are golden handcuffs and people will finally get back to making real software again