We’ve got many goodies for you in this final follow-up email for the 2024 edition of Local-First Conf…

Vibes video

Re-live the energy of the conference in just 96 seconds 😎

Podcast debrief

Organizers Johannes and Adam reflect on their conference experience in the latest episode of localfirst.fm. They discuss how the talks illustrated the various tradeoffs people have made in designing their local-first architectures; the pioneer tax; and the magic of next-frame UIs.

Watch on YouTube or search "localfirst.fm" in your podcast player of choice.

The rest of the videos are live

We couldn’t be more excited to share:

• Nik Graf with a primer on end-to-end encryption for privacy-by-default systems.
• Jack McCloy with the business opportunity for local-first, and why he thinks it’ll be even bigger than you expect.
• Philip Lam on how Goodnotes is using their own event system plus Automerge to bring fast, offline-friendly sync to the 30 million active users of Goodnotes.
• Alexander Stigsen on lessons learned from Realm, one of the earliest and most successful reinvented persistence layers for iOS.
• Drew McCormack on how indie Mac app developers have been building local-first for over a decade—they just didn’t have a name for it.
• Aaron Boodman with the onstage reveal of his new framework Zero, including an impressive partial-sync demo.
• Anton Pronkin on building Anytype, a local-first knowledge base tool (ala Notion) with over 300k active users.
• Brooklyn Zelenka on the standards work at UCAN attempting to crack one of the unsolved problems of local-first: auth and permissions.
• James Arthur on why bridging local-first sync engines to PostgreSQL is needed for existing applications.
• Yifeng Wang on building Affine, a canvas tool built completely local-first using Ys.
• Paulus Esterhazy on building the presentation tool Pitch, and why offline capability is not a binary choice.
• Maggie Appleton on “barefoot developers,” and how the combination of large language models and local-first architectures could finally unlock the end-user programming future we’ve all dreamed of.

That’s it for 2024

The results of the conference really show that local-first’s moment has arrived. Your organizing team is happy and tired, and now we’re signing off for this year.

Heartfelt thanks to the speakers, the sponsors, and everyone who attended or participated in the discussion online.

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