Hi everybody, I wrote this piece and it might seem a little half-baked, but I’ll never get it going if I don’t throw it out there.
Let me know what you think, thanks and selfhosting ftw.
Hi everybody, I wrote this piece and it might seem a little half-baked, but I’ll never get it going if I don’t throw it out there.
Let me know what you think, thanks and selfhosting ftw.
My initial reaction was basically one of your headlines - “Desktop apps with extra steps”. But I guess you are right that selfhosted apps are often better than plain desktop apps. Interesting idea in general.
A cool thing to have with this would be backups, designed in a way that makes it easy to manually back up on a USB drive. Not necessarily automated, but maybe with automatic reminders “You didn’t back up your data in X days - Backup now - Close”.
Thanks, I thought about backups/snapshots too, especially snapshots before version updates, such that users can always jump back if something goes wrong.