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Local-First Software Is Easier to Scale

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175 points chilipepperhott | 2 comments | 05 Jul 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.582s | source
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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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1. 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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2. 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.)