isaachinman

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by isaachinman 1y ago
Problem with vitest is that there's no first class caching if I recall correctly
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by isaachinman 1y ago
Can you elaborate on what you mean by that?
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by isaachinman 1y ago
Perhaps give us a look: https://marcoapp.io Search is single-digit ms!
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by isaachinman 1y ago
Correct
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by isaachinman 1y ago
Thunderbird is an all-time legend.
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by isaachinman 1y ago
Curious, which particular ones have you tried and hated?
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by isaachinman 1y ago
We built a cross-platform offline-first IMAP client: https://marcoapp.io Search is single-digit ms. All metadata stored on the client. I built this over the course of a year, literally driven by my frustration with Apple Mail. M
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by isaachinman 1y ago
Well, Gmail/Fastmail/etc have their own clients/products.
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by isaachinman 1y ago
Are you happy with Apple/iOS Mail? Drives me absolutely insane.
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by isaachinman 1y ago
Curious – for those self-hosting, what email _clients_ do you actually use on desktop/mobile?
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by isaachinman 1y ago
We fixed this at Marco, FYI. https://marcoapp.io
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by isaachinman 1y ago
Yes, it's been over a year of extremely hard work but we're nearly there!
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by isaachinman 1y ago
Also ran into serious issues with Apple Mail, and started building a new product: https://marcoapp.io
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by isaachinman 1y ago
Yes indeed. Brilliant monitor.
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by isaachinman 1y ago
We're currently in alpha, and starting closed-beta this month. Hoping to achieve GA in the next couple months.
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by isaachinman 1y ago
Some notable companies using Replicache are Vercel and Productlane. It's a very mature product. The Rocicorp team have decided to focus on a different product, Zero, which is far less "offline-first" in that it does not sync
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by isaachinman 1y ago
Fair enough, not needing CRDTs makes life a lot easier! And by the way, we didn't opt for an in-house IndexedDB solution because we have targets in which IndexedDB does not exist (mobile, desktop). How do you handle offline-first in yo
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by isaachinman 1y ago
It really depends on the browser. There's a good breakdown here: https://rxdb.info/articles/indexeddb-max-storage-limit.html
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by isaachinman 1y ago
Sure, that works if you only operate in environments where IndexedDB is available. On mobile and desktop, IndexedDB does not exist, and SQLite is available first-class.
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by isaachinman 1y ago
Yeah, I spent quite some time researching nearly all indexing options. Orama is in a different league (although it does have some warts). We have hundreds of thousands of entities in Replicache, and index them via Orama. We're able to
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by isaachinman 1y ago
You are indeed quite rude, but I'll give you an answer. The selling point is that it's IMAP primitive, as the blog post mentions. Thunderbird is nice, but it's not cross-platform. Superhuman and Notion Mail are nice, but they
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by isaachinman 1y ago
No sales pitch at all. USPs are on our homepage. If it doesn't appeal to you I get it. Different people have different needs. There's been a massive influx of "new gen" email clients in the past year or so. That said, we
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by isaachinman 1y ago
Saw that Fastmail released offline support recently, nice work! Do you not have any need for CRDT?
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by isaachinman 1y ago
...Exactly?
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by isaachinman 1y ago
Replicache certainly fits the bill!
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by isaachinman 1y ago
Actually, the complete opposite. We're building this app because we need it ourselves. Turns out a lot of other people do too.
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by isaachinman 1y ago
Our dbs range from hundreds of MB to gigabytes. This is discussed in the blog post. A lot of offline-first tools fall apart at this scale.
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by isaachinman 1y ago
Yeah, I did fail to mention OPFS in the blog post. It does look very promising, but we're not in a position to build on emergent tech – we need a battle-tested stack. Boring over exciting.
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by isaachinman 1y ago
Yeah that makes sense for your use case. We're RN for web, mobile, and desktop, so it works smoothly for us.
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by isaachinman 1y ago
Yes, Replicache works beautifully on our mobile/native targets. The constructor allows you to pass in any arbitrary KVStore provider, and we happen to use op-sqlite as its performance is exceptional. There is no "different data la

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