Local-First Cooperation | Local-First Cooperation

Uncover the simplicity that follows from building software locally, employing it locally, and maintaining it locally.

Meet the design principles that guide you towards building resilient and cooperative software systems.

Become part of the effort to make humankind’s use of computers as robust as it should be.

Peter van Hardenberg

Director @ Ink&SwitchSoftware today is not fit to entrust our most valuable ideas. The cloud is too often unavailable in our sheds, workshops, and kitchens. Creative projects too often outlast the SaaS software that hosts them. Our tools for thought will inevitably become local-first.

Dr. Martin Kleppmann

Professor @ Cambridge UniversityCloud software like Google Docs is very convenient, but it could be taken away from you any moment. If your data is important to you, it should be stored locally on your computer, where nobody can take it away. We can have both real-time collaboration and local storage.

Dr. Roland Kuhn

Founder @ ActyxWe are currently putting all eggs in too few huge baskets: the internet and our usage of computers are very scalable but not resilient. Therefore we need to focus on solving local problems with local infrastructure, local-first and cooperative.

Jonas Bonér

Founder @ LightbendI’ve always been interested in autonomous components and how they work together, mimicking nature. We can improve ourselves and society by building software this way.

Tyler Jewell

Managing Director @ Dell Technologies CapitalWe need edge computing and super-low latency to make IoT work — and for those we need a unified programming paradigm instead of proprietary niche approaches.

Herb Caudill

Founder @ DevResultsLocal-first is a win for users, because they have control and ownership over their data, and they can access it when they're offline. And for software providers like me, it's also a win to take server infrastructure and server codebase out of the equation.