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Beautiful on paper. But it does not scale outside a certain type of tech people.

• an0malous 5mo ago
  What’s the scaling bottleneck? If you made a local-first, P2P version of Figma what would break first? For a company of like 50 people, I doubt you’d have more than 100GB of data so it should fit on everyone’s computers. The P2P syncing part seems solvable, even if you need a centralized handshake server somewhere. And from the user perspective I don’t see why the UX couldn’t be identical, so it’s all the same to them. It seems like the real bottleneck is something else.
  • moring 5mo ago
    > If you made a local-first, P2P version of Figma what would break first? The guy who has to keep it running day by day, next to the other 30 local-first systems.
    • an0malous 5mo ago
      What is there to run? There are millions of apps that don’t require maintenance, this was the default before SaaS.
      • stackskipton 5mo ago
        Every app need maintenance if it's connected to the internet. Security updates at minimum.