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I think there could be an opportunity here for a company like Dropbox to provide an API that will allow local-first apps more easily do collaboration. You can

I think there could be an opportunity here for a company like Dropbox to provide an API that will allow local-first apps more easily do collaboration. You can easily just drop a file in Dropbox to move it from place to place, but its hard to allow multiple apps to modify that file in real time.

hobo_mark 6y ago
Dropbox itself used to offer APIs to support such use cases. "Local-first" software wasn't called that yet, but that's definitely the kind of applications they intended to enable. Alas it was too early and these features got sunset back in 2015... https://dropbox.tech/developers/deprecating-the-sync-and-datastore-apis https://dropbox.tech/developers/deprecating-the-sync-and-dat...