#6 – Rasmus Andersson: Playbit, Software Quality, Data Models Tradeoffs

The guest of this episode is Rasmus Anderson, who helped to build many monumental products such as Spotify, Dropbox and Figma and is now working on Playbit, a local-first operating system built from scratch.
This extended conversation will go deep on software quality, the tradeoffs of different data models and the importance of the web for modern applications.

00:00 Intro
04:07 Spotify
06:26 Facebook, Dropbox & Figma
08:11 Why all those projects where local-first?
09:30 Data Models
20:36 The Swiss Army Knife Problem
24:29 The Web: A Love/Hate Relationship
28:02 What is Native?
40:41 Performance
51:02 Favorite Apps
56:38 Theory on Degrading App Quality over Time
01:02:12 Playbit: A Local-First OS
01:16:57 Local-First Data in Playbit
01:36:22 Passion and Finding Balance
01:42:48 Outro

Mentioned in podcast:
Rasmus Andersson: x.com/rsms + rsms.me
Playbit.it

Links:

Website: https://localfirst.fm
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Local-First Conf 2024: https://www.localfirstconf.com

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