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Local-First Software
Experience apps that work offline, keep your data private, and sync seamlessly across your devices. Your data stays with you, not locked in the cloud.
Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud
Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud Kleppmann et al., Onward! ’19 Watch out! If you start reading this paper you could be lost for hours following all the interesti…

What is Local-first Software?
A look at local-first software, the idea that you can have the collaboration of cloud apps while still fully owning your data.

Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.

Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.

Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud
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Personal sync servers for composable data
Exploring the possibilities of interoperability and composability for local-first software & data by using a personal sync server tied to an atproto identity

Personal sync servers for composable data
Exploring the possibilities of interoperability and composability for local-first software & data by using a personal sync server tied to an atproto identity

Local-First Software: Taking Back Control of Our Data | a mini-doc
Ejectable Apps
An important requirement to ensure you can fully access your data in cloud apps forever is making the backend sync server available for local self-hosting. That's what EJECTABLE apps are about.
Atmosphere Account
One account for all your apps. Yours to keep, wherever you go.

You Get an Offline First App, and You Get an Offline First App, and…
Hit the ground running with a series of Offline First demo apps
A New Wave of Peer-to-Peer Apps Heralds a Farm-to-Table Internet
This week, we discuss the local-first computing movement and its push to reduce our reliance on the corporate-owned, cloud-based software tools we use every day.

Private Chat Backups with Local-First Principles
Introducing encrypted chat backups and multi-device syncing that extends our end-to-end privacy principles to persistent cloud storage.
