Mikael Siidorow

12 July

First time at @localfirstconf.com, looking forward to meeting many cool people! 🙌

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Anselm Eickhoff

@anselm.io

24 June

For his master's thesis, @siidorow.dev interviewed me about how @jazz.tools fits into the landscape of sync engines and local-first DBs. Now that it's published (congrats!) I can say that it is *the* most rigorous & precisely categorized overview of our field! PDF: aaltodoc.aalto.fi/server/api/c...

12 Mar

Building good UI is really hard. Chat buys time to figure out what it actually needs to be. Not the end state, but way better than rushing dashboards nobody wants to use #buildinpublic #webdev

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12 Mar

At teamspective.com we replaced months of UI work with a chat box. Combining data across products used to mean clicking through dashboards. Now it's one message

7 Mar

I moved all my personal projects off Vercel to a self-hosted Hetzner server Free tiers are great for hobby projects. But the moment you need long-running processes, you're paying. A sync engine, a 24/7 data collector, Postgres. These aren't serverless workloads. #buildinpublic #selfhosting #webdev

NixOS and Kubernetes configs were mostly vibe coded with Claude. Took a weekend. Now I modify my infra from my phone. Prompt Claude, it opens a PR, I preview, I merge. No dashboards. Vibe infrastructure. And the cost stays at 8€ no matter how much I deploy.

7 Mar

My server is in Finland, run by a German company. No US jurisdiction over my data. That wasn't why I moved, but it's something I've started paying more attention to. Anyone else self-hosting? Where do you draw the line between convenience and control?

On Fly.io, Render, or Railway a single always-on service runs roughly 5-7€. But a real app is never one container. My sync engine powered app needs the app, a sync server, and Postgres. Three services, 15-20€ for one project. I run all that plus other apps on Hetzner for 8€ total.

SWEs really love talking about their tech stack, especially if it involves sync or local-first

I've been interviewing practitioners across the space: engine builders, engineers using sync engines in production, and teams that built custom

Still looking for more interviews across all three groups. If this sounds like you, DM me - or just reply with what you're building, I'd love to hear about it #buildinpublic

SWEs really love talking about their tech stack, especially if it involves sync or local-first

This shouldn't surprise me. I notice this pattern in myself too - if I find some cool tech, I'll share it with colleagues and friends

This has been really helpful for my MSc thesis research at Aalto University (@aalto.fi). I'm exploring sync engine architectures: when off-the-shelf sync works well and when teams end up building custom #localfirst #webdev

30 Jan

Our caching strategy is "hope two people don't edit the same thing at once." Low concurrency has been carrying the entire stack for years. Now more users and larger orgs are jumping in and the cracks are starting to show.

16 Feb 2025

Just watched @maggieappleton.com's talk on home-cooked software and it really clicked with what I'm doing with sweepmail.app! 🎯 Makes sense that not every piece of software needs to scale to millions of users 🛠️ #buildinpublic #webdev #indiehacker

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16 Feb 2025

Full talk + transcript here: maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-... Want to try out sweepmail.app, the email experience for indie hackers, solopreneurs and founders? Join the waitlist at sweepmail.app 🧹

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15 Feb 2025

I just launched a waitlist for sweepmail.app! ✨🧹 Google Cloud allows me to invite up to 100 test users. I will let some people test the app in the next few weeks once the core functionality is in place! #buildinpublic #indiehacker #productivity #webdev

9 Feb 2025

I just built a toy version of my Gmail client for mysidequest.xyz Week 3! It has working OAuth and connection to the Gmail API. Only text render at this point, but I learned a lot about parsing the email format. I even got åöä to work properly 🙌 #webdev #sidequest #buildinpublic

9 Feb 2025

I used @tanstack.com Query with indexeddb to make the app fast as heck. Next steps to figure out a smart way to prefetch the emails since the Gmail listing API only has IDs by default. If it even makes sense to do this without any server storage... #svelte #typescript #webdev

9 Feb 2025

No public link yet, since the Google app would require verification for that. I could grant access to specific test user emails at a later stage if people want to try it out!

30 Jan 2025

I am building a side project with mysidequest.xyz! My goal for the program is to have a functioning email client that I can personally use instead of sluggish Gmail by the end of 6 weeks. Planning to post progress updates here every week! #svelte #local-first #gmail