First local-first: the forgotten history of the early indies: Drew McCormack (Local-First Conf)

Speaker: Drew McCormack, Agenda
As online storage companies like Dropbox became widespread in the late 2000s, mobile app developers saw an opportunity: free online storage with no server maintenance headaches. All you needed to do was sync an SQLite database via flat files. How difficult could it be?
Join me on a brief journey into an alternative history of Local First, where Javascript is a dirty word, and ‘servers' are the baristas topping up your coffee mug. Welcome to the renegade world of the low-budget indie developer.
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Learn from engineers, designers, academics, start-ups, and indie developers who are putting local-first into practice and reaping the benefits of a cloud-optional architecture.
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Thanks to our wonderful sponsors:
- DXOS - dxos.org/ (foundation layer for cloudless, collaborative software)
- Heavybit - www.heavybit.com/ (leading investor in dev-first startups)
- PowerSync - www.powersync.... (Postgres and SQLite sync layer)
- Rocicorp - rocicorp.dev/ (creator of multiplayer and sync infrastructure)
- Axil - axil.llc/ (agency focused on local-first software dev)
- Affine - affine.pro/ (workspace merging docs, whiteboards, and databases)
- CrabNebula - crabnebula.dev/ (creator of Tauri, for deploying web technologies as desktop apps)
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Thanks to sceal-studio.com/ for the videos!

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Why is the intro music so loud?