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Linear[0] is local-first and monetizes just fine. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37491239 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37491239
by mritchie712 2y ago
Linear[0] is local-first and monetizes just fine.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37491239 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37491239
- braden-lk 2y agoSorry, to clarify in my case: Monetizing consumer products. Selling to companies is indeed much easier.
- baobabKoodaa 2y agoSure, and there are also developers who live off pure donations "just fine", but pointing this out is not useful. It's easier to build a cloud based subscription business.
- jFriedensreich 2y agohow does linear keep working if the company disappears?
- socksy 2y agoThis is not part of the requirements for localfirst, it's part of the eventual goals. Here linear meet the requirements because you can continue to edit offline, and if they have a server outage then you don't lose your data because you have a local copy. However a collaborative software is of course useless in the long term if you can't collaborate anymore.
- jFriedensreich 2y agothat is absolutely false, this is the KEY differentiator over "offline first"