A collection of awesome local-first projects including offline-first and collaboration functionality
Articles
- Local-first software - You own your data, in spite of the cloud, Ink & Switch | PDF Version by Martin Kleppmann
Videos
- Automerge: Making servers optional for real-time collaboration, Martin Kleppmann
Research
- Verifying strong eventual consistency in distributed systems, Victor B. F. Gomes, Martin Kleppmann, Dominic P. Mulligan, Alastair R. Beresford
A list of projects built following the local-first concept
Projects
- Actual: Actual is a super fast privacy-focused app for managing your finances
- AFFiNE: AFFiNE is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use.
- Bangle-io: A web only WYSIWYG note taking app that saves notes locally in markdown format.
- TidGi: Customizable personal knowledge-base with git as backup manager.
- TiddlyWiki5: A self-contained JavaScript wiki for the browser, Node.js, AWS Lambda etc, works in local-first.
- Volon: Volón is a plain text, markdown-focused, local-first notes app with text-editing keyboard shortcuts.
Libraries
- automerge - A JSON-like data structure (a CRDT) that can be modified concurrently by different users, and merged again automatically.
- hypercore - Hypercore is a secure, distributed append-only log.
Social Networks
- Secure Scuttlebutt - a peer-to peer communication protocol, mesh network, and self-hosted social media ecosystem
- zhongkechen/awesome-local-first: Awesome Local-First Software
- radical-data/awesome-local-first: Curated list of projects centering local storage and offline operability.