Local first is easier to scale technically.
Paid hosted software is easier to scale financially.
Without the latter, it's very hard to come up with the money to pay people to build, to support the market, etc.
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Paid hosted software is easier to scale financially.
Without the latter, it's very hard to come up with the money to pay people to build, to support the market, etc.
Take an application like Slack and consider how to scale it local-first for a team with 1000 people.
And then consider how to coordinate deployment of new features and schema migrations…
Compare that with running a centralized server, which is going to be much easier.