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		delano on June 5, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: PlayBooks – Jupyter Notebooks style on-ca... Wow, yeah. "Bringing backend features to files." This feels a bit like that time we saw Etherpad playback for the first time. I'm just not sure if I've grokked the big picture yet. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=495336

samuelstros on June 5, 2024 [–]

big picture is that cloud-based apps/saas is getting disrupted.

there is no value in a cloud-based solution that locks users and customers in if collaboration can be solved in the data (file) level. turns out that version control solves collaboration on the data level and is awesome to build apps.

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