glad to see more discussion about local-first, but there havn't been a good business model for local first products, which might lead to the unsustainable of the tech ecosystem
A vast portion of the software industry works "local first", not to mention that it worked almost exclusively like this for 30+ years. "Not local first" is maybe a 15 year old phenomena and people act like there is no alternative.
You can just sell apps for one-time fee. Used to work fine in the past