Comment by bookaway
2 years ago
I took a look at the landing page out of curiosity, just an FYI but at first glance there's nothing that indicates to me that this is not a regular SaaS app.
Specifically, unless I'm missing something, nothing in the text jumped out at me indicating the app satisfies this condition stated in the article:
>for good offline support it is desirable for the software to run as a locally installed executable on your device
Might want to make this feature more prominent if you support it.
Thanks, great feedback!
Although it's entirely architected on a local-first stack, I indeed haven't shipped the main benefit of this, a locally installable app. There's a WIP PR here that adds PWA support: https://github.com/TypeCellOS/TypeCell/pull/352. I'll highlight this more when this is merged.
Nevertheless, some of the benefits are already noticeable and come "out of the box" with building on a local first architecture, even if not shipping an executable yet: - multiplayer sync - speed: documents are loaded from local storage initially if they have been loaded before, and changes sync in after that
In the future (when there's an installable app), I also want to enable saving / loading from the file system, so that it's completely transparent where your data is.