alt Hacker NewsI always wanted to do local and offline first app with optional sync, but the difference in amount of work is just stagering.
Now with LLM to do the boiler plate of event logs, healing, retries and testing all that, it's finally reasonable for a side projet.
And the result is great, the UI is reactive, it works in malls with bad signal, you get a no account experience almost for free...
I do all my apps like that now.
The problem with native apps are the app stores and their requirements. For true cross-platform, you need to develop for 5 platforms (macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android), each with their own technology, favored programming language and ecosystem, deployment, certificates, regulations, requirements, guidelines, arbitrary app review policies, categories, etc. I'm doing that currently and it's madness.
IMHO, it would be best if developers all over the world boycotted proprietary platforms entirely. (Of course, this is never going to happen, I'm just saying.)