Comment by rtpg

I feel like this is close to a good idea.

What I would want to see is a version of this that lets me write an app that can write to the DB through an API, and then have a google drive-esque "host this for me" thing.

A focus on local-first really misses the point IMO. Like sure it's good it can be run locally, but really most people have a distribution problem. Be a distribution solution!

The thing I would do involves having the hosting just be available by dropping the capsule into the google drive/dropbox-y thing, and then having it be that you can just copy/paste the file to someone _and it carries over the data and everything by default_.

For a lot of people the "thing" is the app + the data. Sometimes you want to decouple them but a lot of times you don't want to.

I think it would be very rare for someone to want to share the single-file bundle just without data.