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submitted 10 months ago by thelocalhostinger@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi everybody, I wrote this piece and it might seem a little half-baked, but I'll never get it going if I don't throw it out there.

Let me know what you think, thanks and selfhosting ftw.

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[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My initial reaction was basically one of your headlines - "Desktop apps with extra steps". But I guess you are right that selfhosted apps are often better than plain desktop apps. Interesting idea in general.

A cool thing to have with this would be backups, designed in a way that makes it easy to manually back up on a USB drive. Not necessarily automated, but maybe with automatic reminders "You didn't back up your data in X days - Backup now - Close".

[–] thelocalhostinger@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Thanks, I thought about backups/snapshots too, especially snapshots before version updates, such that users can always jump back if something goes wrong.