Own Your Data Articles and Resources

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Gathering articles, apps, and other resources that cover #own-your-data

I want to own the database that my apps use, Grant Orndorff, May 2020

I want to own the database that my apps use, Grant Orndorff, May 2020

https://orndorffgrant.com/own-your-data-idea/ I have almost no control over the data that apps store for me. I’m talking about the data that apps explicitly advertise themselves for: like the workout data I record in a fitness app, or the todo items I put in a todo app, or the tweets I put on twitter. The only way I can access this data is via the specific app that stores it, and I can only do things that the product designers had the forethought to include. Generally speaking, I can’t do any…

Local-first Software, Ink & Switch, April 2019

Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud - Ink & Switch

An article summarizing several years of research and prototyping on how principles of local first software can lead to increased user agency and data ownership. The Ink & Switch team built several prototypes, made a lot of use of Dat Protocol, and explored CRDTs as a fundamental building block for syncing / merging distributed data. In this article we propose “local-first software”: a set of principles for software that enables both collaboration and ownership for users. Local-first ideals i…