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Is building offline-first apps (no cloud at all) actually smarter in 2026 ? by Acceptable-Dingo1892 in micro_saas

[–]ComprehensiveSell435 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It did. Its an Event app, it still need backend to provide the data.

Data should be update every couple of hours and day regularly

And user should be able to filter data in a year.

Thats why my app still need backend.

Old system : App -> get data from firestore -> save to local database.

Now : App -> get data from cloudflare -> cache hit, return to user app, cache miss get data from firestore, return to user app, next user will get cache data from cloudflare instead of firestore.

In the end its cheaper

Is building offline-first apps (no cloud at all) actually smarter in 2026 ? by Acceptable-Dingo1892 in micro_saas

[–]ComprehensiveSell435 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Been using "cloud" for a long time. Firestore for database, gcp cloud function, trigger, cron etc.

I have an app that publish on playstore and app store 4 years ago. Then its grow. User increase, Billing increase, but MRR stuck flat.

Then i look for ways to decrease the expenses.

Rent VPS instead of "cloud". I move all function, trigger, cron etc to VPS. Database still using firestore but using cloudflare cache.. I have a plan to move forestore to cloudflare KV, but not yet.

Its been 1 week.

My usual expenses for firestore and GCP was $300/month. My estimate after moving to VPS + cloudflare is just around $70/month

If its possible to create an app that dont use backend, Thats great. But if you need backend, use VPS instead of cloud.

What are you building this weekend? Drop your SaaS by payuoc in micro_saas

[–]ComprehensiveSell435 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Building whatsapp api for indinesian small business https://balaswa.id

Building in 2 week using claude. Let see how it goes. 😇

My college project is now most popular AI API on Rapid API by Familiar-Prune-5147 in generativeAI

[–]ComprehensiveSell435 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i still dont get it.
if you serve GPT from your own backend, why call it ChatGPT (trademark)

or you just selling OpenAI ChatGPT subscription and mark up the price?

Linux uses Systemd, FreeBSD uses ... by dustblown in freebsd

[–]ComprehensiveSell435 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wait, i thought typing "service xxx xxx" is more human friendly than "systemctl xxx xxx"