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@ryansolid.bsky.social thanks for the discussion on stream today! You asked on stream today to show you a trello or otherwise sufficiently complex app in datastar. Here is that as as well as a few others that opened my eyes a bit, as a former skeptic. kanban.jsonbateman.com

There's also an entire google sheets clone: hypersheets.yagni.club and a zero bugs tracker clone: dbugs.yagni.club and 1 billion checkboxes: checkboxes.andersmurphy.com These run on cheap VPS, but you could also run them serverless + DO. Infra is not the limiting factor here.

And before someone says these are toys or whatever, here is David Nolen discussing how he also shared the same viewpoints before, tried sync engines for what is effectively a Quickbooks app, and ultimately found Datastar to be the best solution for them.

To be clear: I love Solid and have learned a lot on your streams over the years but felt like there was a bit of dismissal as to the current reality of hypermedia as an option *also for highly interactive apps*, particularly Datastar.

To be clear I don't have an issue with what Datastar offers, just that there is a wider spectrum of considerations. This isn't unlike how Nuxt/Next users think I'm particularly harsh on the scenario where their metaframework ships mostly static content.