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Local-First Software Is Easier to Scale

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175 points chilipepperhott | 9 comments | 05 Jul 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.866s | source | bottom
1. 361994752 ◴[05 Jul 25 19:19 UTC] No.44474875[source]▶
It's amazing to me how we called "box-product" now has a fancy new name "local-first". "Box product" is quite well understood. It has a lot of benefits, but also the business model is harder to get right comparing to cloud services. For opensource projects, that will not be a problem tho.
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2. 9283409232 ◴[05 Jul 25 19:29 UTC] No.44474946[source]▶
Lot of young people don't know what a box product is. You're showing your age.
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3. namuol ◴[05 Jul 25 19:48 UTC] No.44475051[source]▶
How dare people walk around showing their age. Disgusting!
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4. 9283409232 ◴[05 Jul 25 20:27 UTC] No.44475293{3}[source]▶
Way to miss the point. They said box product is well understood but it isn't these days.
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5. k__ ◴[05 Jul 25 20:32 UTC] No.44475328{4}[source]▶
I'm 40 and I never heard that term.
6. plorkyeran ◴[05 Jul 25 22:39 UTC] No.44476156[source]▶
I'm old enough to have bought software boxes in stores and I've never heard the term "box-product".
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7. 361994752 ◴[06 Jul 25 01:37 UTC] No.44477056[source]▶
It reminds me of that joke where young people see a floppy disk for the first time and say, "Oh, you 3D printed the save icon!" Might be reality very soon.
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8. 9283409232 ◴[06 Jul 25 02:46 UTC] No.44477408{3}[source]▶
Damn this hit me hard. If I ever hear this I know it's time to retire.
9. msgodel ◴[07 Jul 25 20:09 UTC] No.44494170[source]▶
We just called them "CDs" and sometimes they didn't even have a box. Those were called "shrink-wrapped CDs" (even though the boxes were usually shrink-wrapped too.)