📰 News & Discussions Convex raises $24M to reinvent backends "Sync is a central part of Convex's vision. But when developers want instant, automatic, optimistic local interaction with their app data, we currently offer little help. We aim to ship a Convex-flavored take on local-first that will feel
📰 News & Discussions TanStack DB 0.5 — Query-Driven Sync "We're releasing TanStack DB 0.5 today with Query-Driven Sync — a feature that fundamentally changes how you think about loading data." Syntax.fm #954: Fullstack TanStack! The Scoop with Tanner Linsley (podcast episode) "Wes and Scott
📰 News & Discussions Sync Conf 2025 (upcoming event) "Sync Conf is a boutique conference on the future of real-time, collaborative, agentic software development." November 12th, San Francisco. Local-first mobile app meetup with Expo and InstantDB "Before SyncConf kicks off on November 12th, join a lot of the
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/31 Community Meetup The LoFi/31 community meetup took place on Tuesday October 28th, 2025, with talks by Tim Hampson ("Local Data: Design is everything"), Pablo Mayrgundter ("Bldrs.ai: browser-based OSS CAD engine with AI integration"), and Yonatan Feleke ("Sync &
📰 News & Discussions Reviewing the Turso Beta week "Turso, the rewrite of SQLite is now in Beta. We expect a production ready to be out in a matter of months. But it already has the right set of capabilities to show what modern databoxes need to offer." Fallout
📰 News & Discussions Building native-grade web apps with synced data - Johannes Schickling @ ViteConf 2025 Talk by Johannes Schickling at ViteConf 2025. Currently available in live stream replay @ 05:32:00 (registration required). See also demo on X LiveStore Hands-on #2: Work Squared (upcoming event) "Continuing the real-time code
📰 News & Discussions Triplit joins Supabase "With this acquisition, we're bringing Matt's deep expertise in the offline-first domain into our ecosystem. Our focus isn't to directly integrate Triplit into our platform. Instead, Matt will be working to expand third-party integrations at Supabase. Part
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/30 Community Meetup The LoFi/30 community meetup took place on Tuesday September 30th, 2025, with talks by Noel De Martin ("Local-First, Solid and Everything in Between"), German Jablonski ("DocNode: CRDT and OT made easy"), and Akshay Kumar ("Building a Digital
📰 News & Discussions Why Local-First Apps Haven’t Become Popular? "When you build a local-first app, you’ve effectively created a distributed system. Multiple devices can mutate data independently, sometimes offline, and later must converge to the exact same state without losing data." See also HN discussion. A
📰 News & Discussions Speeding up PowerSync with a SQLite extension written in Rust "We’re already using a custom SQLite extension written in Rust to define a few virtual tables and SQL helper functions, so our idea was to expand that extension to include a client state machine for
📰 News & Discussions An Interactive Guide to TanStack DB "Learn what TanStack DB is, how it works, and why it might change the way you build apps." LiveStore Office Hours #5 "▪︎ Progress update on version 0.4 ▪︎ New Cloudflare Adapter (using Durable Objects) ▪︎ Community presentations (lots of
📰 News & Discussions The Future of Databases is Local-First "local-first should be the default standard for building apps, apps that aren’t disrupted by network issues, airplane mode, or any other variable we can’t control. If we want to deliver truly great user experiences, the database must be