Honestly, I don't really care for software that is "local" to the machine as its primary path. What I like is software that provides a self-hostable backend th

Honestly, I don't really care for software that is "local" to the machine as its primary path. What I like is software that provides a self-hostable backend that is as close to identical as the cloud-hosted backend as possible. Allow me to to configure things to point to my local network (or better yet use SRV records to discover it) so I can still use the mobile app, desktop app, and browser app with live collab and sync between them, but without relying on your cloud service. This isn't completely trivial to do, but it's also not that hard either, as long as you design your software architecture for the backend to be reliant on operating your own services in the cloud on dumb IaaS instead of relying on PaaS components. It's one of the reasons I really like certain companies because it makes it possible for me to still provide my family the ease of use that comes with centrally managed services and mobile apps without the privacy and cost tradeoffs of abandoning control to the cloud. Something like OwnCloud but for everything would be really fantastic.