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Why Local-First Apps Haven't Become Popular?
Offline-first apps promise instant loading and privacy, but in practice, very few apps get offline support because getting sync right is surprisingly hard.
Offline-first apps sound like the future: instant loading, privacy by default, and no more spinning loaders on flaky connections. Traditional backend databases solve this with strong consistency, but that requires global coordination—too slow and brittle for local-first systems. Most systems ask developers to write manual conflict resolution code, but that’s error-prone and hard to maintain.
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