Presentation: Local First – How To Build Software Which Still Works After the Acquihire

Alex Good discusses the fragility of modern cloud-dependent apps and shares a roadmap for local-first software. By leveraging a Git-like DAG structure and Automerge, he explains how to move from brittle client-server models to resilient systems where data lives on-device. He explores technical implementation, rich-text merging, and how this infrastructure simplifies engineering workflows.