cardi VS github-scrumboard

> Deta Space made it really easy for me as dev to build something like WebCrate quickly and it's also awesome for users. The app keeps running even if I disappear and hosting, auth etc. is all handled for me

Ah yeah, love the concept, I had similar goals in mind when making Cardi (although I wasn't aware of many options at the time for putting data in control of the user -- I ended up just having people log in with AWS access keys and it stores data in DynamoDB, which is weird but has actually been working great so far).

https://github.com/pickledish/cardi

Anyways Deta seems interesting, looking forward to seeing where it goes from here! Would love more/better options in this space.

Ha, I'm very interested in this!

I had this same problem for my own app[0], I ended up solving it by just using dynamodb in my personal AWS account as the storage. Generous free tier, great uptime, and no users, security, etc to manage for me, like you mention.

It's way more technical than I'd like of course, since anyone who wants to use it needs to have a personal AWS account. And it isn't "synced", like you say, it's just using the AWS JS SDK to speak to dynamodb directly. But still it's been a real pleasure to build a web app this way -- the fact that anyone can use the app by plugging in their own storage is kind of the web development holy grail IMO.

[0] https://github.com/pickledish/cardi

Hey thanks! I wouldn't say it's a hard dependency, in fact it can work with other things that are API-compatible with DynamoDB, like Scylla for example if you wanted to self-host everything:

http://scylla.docs.scylladb.com/master/alternator/alternator

And in terms of using something like Firestore, the storage needs of this are very simple so it wouldn't be very hard to add that in. I tried to keep all the persistence-related functionality separated off for this purpose:

https://github.com/pickledish/cardi/tree/master/src/dynamodb

I think what's even a better attention mechanism is my late internet strategy.

I didn't bother to register an internet connection at my workshop, and I only have a mobile "flatrate" with 2G slow there.

It's amazing how precious your value of time instantly gets, and you have to get innovative for all sorts of tools.

GitHub Issues? Nope, need to build a caching browser extension [1]

Google? Nope, need to build a browser extension that blocks the damn consent banners.

Duckduckgo? Nope, doesn't work via TOR and blocks you as of late.

The general web? Nope. Browsers are too stupid to cache anything. So I guess I need to build my own web browser as well [2]

There's just so much noise in web sites these days, it's absurd. JS, ads, web fonts, tracking gifs, banners, gdpr consent banners, cookie banners, analytics...all noise, not signal.

[1] https://github.com/cookiengineer/github-scrumboard

[2] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth

In case somebody is looking for something that's integrated with GitHub's Issue API (without any third-party service scamming you off for it): I built a GitHub Scrumboard Chromium Extension that is offline-ready and doesn't need any third-party server. [1]

As I'm often developing on my laptop while being on 2G slow, this extension is offline-ready and automatically synchronizes the issues once visiting the /issues URL of an online repository again.

[1] https://github.com/cookiengineer/github-scrumboard