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Ditto
Company blog · ditto.live/blog · on HN as mbalex99programmingsystems
Ditto is the company blog at ditto.live, writing about programming and systems. Since 2020, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “Ditto: Real-time sync for apps even without the internet”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (20) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters mostly link ditto.live as a pointer to a peer-to-peer, offline-capable sync database product, often as a plug in threads on local-first and edge data sync. It is a product site, not a blog.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 20 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The only mobile database with built-in edge device connectivity and resiliency
Most-linked posts?
- Ditto: Real-time sync for apps even without the internet6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-02-03
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-10-26
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-01-07
- Mocking Time in Async Rust3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-02-15
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-01-07
- Bridging React Native and Rust Through JSI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-15
What Hacker News says?
https://www.ditto.live/
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on “Tell HN: The Internet situation inside Iran”Submitted Ditto: Real-time sync for apps even without the internet as a story · 175 points
HN discussionSingle biggest thing you need to nail down fast: the data model. It is extremely hard to shift as things grow, and without careful thought, it’ll turn into a horrifying miasma of JSONB columns, duplicated data, orphaned rows, and garbage performance. Customers are going to store surprisingly large items in Docs, where you’d be tempted to inline them instead of offloading to S3 et al. Chat practically needs to be its…
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on “Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)”Submitted Mocking Time in Async Rust as a story · 19 points
HN discussionhttps://ditto.live
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on “Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks”Submitted The Future of the Cloud? Make It Optional as a story · 8 points
HN discussion"syncing doesn’t work without a server" I don't think this is true, granted there are some big challenges to transfering data between devices without a central server, but there are several projects like https://dxos.org/ which use p2p, and also there's https://ditto.live/ which uses bluetooth/wifi direct for cases where all users will be in the same room or on the same local network (imagine wanting to play chess w…
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on “Local First, Forever”Submitted Multiplexing Multipath P2P Mobile Transports as a story · 7 points
HN discussionShameless plug but would love for you to try out Ditto[1]! CRDT-based replicated database that works peer-to-peer including automatically with WiFi and Bluetooth. [1] https://www.ditto.live
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on “LiteFS”Submitted Introducing `safer_ffi`: write Rust code callable from C without `unsafe` as a story · 7 points
HN discussionDid you look into https://ditto.live/ ? Its and off-line first db too. I never used it but looks very interesting and would be interested how it compare to the technologies you picked
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on “Offline-First Database Comparison”Submitted Testing CRDTs in Rust, Theory to Practice (stateful property based testing) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI’ve never used this, but I know people who work here [0]. Might be useful for you? [0]: https://ditto.live/
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on “MVCC – the part of PostgreSQL we hate the most (2023)”Submitted Bluetooth Low Energy on iOS from Scratch -commentary on limitations/difficulties as a story · 4 points
HN discussionCouple of buzzwords that address this point: * CRDTs * "Intelligent Edge Platforms" as Ditto [1] calls them [1] https://www.ditto.live/
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on “Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think”Submitted Mocking Time in Async Rust as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt seems so: https://github.com/nwestfall/BlazorDB Although this might be using JavaScript interop instead of using WebAssembly directly. Edit: check this out: https://www.ditto.live/ It’s a multi language CRDT implementation that seems to use WebAssembly to be available in multiple languages.
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on “Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web”Submitted An Inside Look at Ditto's Delta State CRDTs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe ideas described here are very similar to what SSB ( https://ssbc.github.io/docs/ssb/faq.html ) implemented. The main problems with having a log is that it grows with every single change (how granular are your changes? with CRDTs, any mutation, no matter how small, is a change). Questions of data retention (is your protocol tolerant to missing log entries?) or data rewriting (if your log is a merkle tree, rewriti…
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on “Resilient Sync for Local First”Submitted Getting Started with Bluetooth File Sync as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFrom Ditto's "privacy policy": Ditto uses your personal information in the following instances: ... Deliver direct marketing communications to you regarding our products and services that we may think are of interest to you. ... We share Personal Information with third parties ... Depending on how you use the Site or Services, the following categories of third parties collect data on our behalf or receive Personal I…
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on “Ditto: Real-time sync for apps even without the internet”Submitted Mocking Time in Async Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAre there similar services to your company's ( https://www.ditto.live/ ) out there already? I haven't had the need for this yet , but I can see your product being pretty damn useful
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on “Offline-First Apps: Why Should Apps Be Made to Work in an Offline State?”Submitted Tutorial – How to build a fully functioning C++ To-Do List App as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you haven't come across https://ditto.live , definitely check it out. They've put a lot of focus on this case.
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on “What if serverless meant no backend servers?”Submitted Peer-to-peer sync for mobile, web, IoT, and server as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm biased since I work on it, but https://ditto.live/ provides an SDK that allows P2P and cloud sync. You interact with it like a database: write your queries against your data, and it will move between devices automatically
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on “CouchDB 3.4.1 Released”Submitted We attached a database to our peer to peer sync solution as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDitto ( https://www.ditto.live/about ) | REMOTE (USA Only) | Full-Time | Senior Software Engineer | Rust Ditto aims to expand the internet beyond traditional reach. Our groundbreaking edge sync platform is powered by peer-to-peer database technology that runs on mobile, web, IoT, and server systems, enabling devices to sync data in real-time even without the internet. We work with a variety of customers including th…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2023)”Submitted Bridging React Native and Rust Through JSI as a story · 1 points
HN discussion