[HN Gopher] Day Zero - Build Good Web Apps with the Zero Sync En...
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       Day Zero - Build Good Web Apps with the Zero Sync Engine
        
       Author : aboodman
       Score  : 70 points
       Date   : 2024-12-18 18:38 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | trosterud wrote:
       | Nice! Congratz
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       | It's insanely fast. And wholeheartedly recommend this wonderful
       | talk about the thoughts that led to this:
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       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqOUgqsWvbw
        
       | _shibru_ wrote:
       | This is big step towards getting more and more application adopt
       | sync-engines and in general better user-experience!
       | 
       | Awesome Work, congratulations on the alpha launch!
        
       | aboodman wrote:
       | Hello, HN - I'm aaron - CEO and founder of Rocicorp. We build
       | Zero and Replicache. Very happy to answer any questions!
        
         | scottward wrote:
         | Will replicache be deprecated? Or continue to be
         | developed/supported? E.g. Partial downloads aren't really
         | necessary in our case so Zero isn't really necessary (although
         | it is cool!).
        
       | samokhovets wrote:
       | congrats on the launch! i was amazed by replicache when i first
       | time saw it
       | 
       | excited to build something with this!
        
       | jeremy_k wrote:
       | Congrats on the launch! Extremely excited to start using Zero on
       | a side project I've been working on over the next couple weeks.
        
       | nwenzel wrote:
       | Whoa! Definitely give the commenting engine a try. It is insanely
       | fast. I'm curious how it would work on my old SaaS app that had a
       | ton of data and displayed attached PDFs (that were often scanned
       | images of text, not the actual text) that are huge. Nice work.
        
       | raybb wrote:
       | This is huge. Looking forward to playing with it. Based on your
       | docs it doesn't seem like there's going to be a way to run this
       | on a free version somewhere because of the Postgres requirement
       | right?
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       | Any thoughts on if SQLite would be suitable and likely to be
       | supported in the future? That would make this really perfect
       | getting a MVP going.
        
         | jitl wrote:
         | (I'm not affiliated w/ zero)
         | 
         | zero-cache and Postgres both will run for free on your local
         | machine in docker. If you want to run zero-cache for free in
         | the cloud, you can probably run Postgres for free in the cloud
         | in the same way.
         | 
         | zero-cache uses SQLite internally, but the component that's
         | missing for SQLite support overall is a replication log that
         | zero-cache can subscribe to.
         | 
         | Or are you imagining zero-cache itself as the DB of record?
        
         | aboodman wrote:
         | I think there are a lot of free hosts that could work?
         | - Fly.io has a free tier that has postgres (if you want to
         | debug from your workstation against live pg, which is useful,
         | it's $2/mo for a public IP)       - Supabase has a free tier
         | (with the caveat that schema changes will resync the replica -
         | which is fine as long as db is smallish)       - AWS/RDS offers
         | one year free
         | 
         | Those are just off the top of my head. Plus as jitl mentions
         | you can just run the Dockerized pg in any free docker env.
        
       | keizo wrote:
       | Fastest of the demos I've seen -- also seems like big deal that
       | it's open source now!
        
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