Home-cooked Software and Barefoot Programmers: Maggie Appleton (Local-First Conf)

Speaker: Maggie Appleton, Elicit
Machine learning and language models are about to create a golden age of local software, home-cooked apps, and barefoot developers. The local-first community should play a sigificant part in building that future, and make sure it's local-first by default.
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[@danialcaraz5383]

Amazing talk, very clear and neat.

[@nickstaresinic4031]

Well done: informative, very clear and easy-to-grasp graphics that punctuate the narrative, and confidently presented. Overall, it shows that you've put a lot of thought into this topic. Thanks for your effort.

[@brorentilhammad]

Maggie the GREAT!!!

[@reneil1337]

great talk. lots of gud takes!

[@KrutoshReviews]

Oh my goodness, I have thought about this for some time. I can see a substantial rise in SaaS development catering to niche workflow tasks, and they are genuinely gaining traction. Furthermore, a speech delivered by the founder of Patreon at SXSW resonates with the concept of the "barefoot developer" idea. The talk name was, "Death of the followers".

[@swish6143]

Loved the talk, great story, great Message and great design!

[@alexdw5]

Incredible talk. Thank you, Maggie!

[@howdevyou]

powerful stuff thanks!

[@weltgeschichtliche]

Amazing talk 👏👏👏

[@zbzbzbzbzb3288]

This is powerful stuff.

[@VolodymyrPavlyshyn]

amazing talk

[@tofuman9526]

Isn’t barefoot == indie hacker?

[@fyodorio]

Nah, indie hackers (xxi century version) are greedy for MRR and stuff like that 😅 it’s more about the classic software hackers of 80s-90s which did build crazy stuff they envisioned just for the heck of it… but still not the same… I like the idea anyways 👍