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Re: Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite

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Post by fallinditch »

paweladamczuk wrote: post #19
bashtian wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is that you can't save the user data in way that you can click a single file, similar to a Word or Excel file. I you think a about it, a Excel spreadsheet is also just UI + data in a single file.

This is a frustration of mine as well, but I vaguely remember someone showing something on HN where the file could essentially save itself, I think they were using some file APIs for that... sadly I can't find the details anymore. But I keep running into the "HTML file opened locally can't update itself" issue repeatedly now that I build tools for myself with LLM agents.

Are you thinking of Nash? a standalone editable note as HTML that was featured on HN some time ago. https://keepworking.github.io/nash/

Re: Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite

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Post by jg0r »

pspeter3 wrote: post #71
mg wrote: post #60

> but trying to save data required hosting it somewhere With the File System Access API, webpages nowadays can read and write local files just like desktop applications: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/capabilities/web-apis/file... Try this text editor for example: https://googlechromelabs.github.io/text-editor/ It works nicely on Desktop and Mobile.

My dream is that you could write to Google Drive or iCloud Drive transparently too if the browser allows you to

I believe you are able to connect to a Google Drive account with a purely client side site via google oauth and then using the Google Drive rest api. There was an article in particular that I liked that walked through it. Let me see if I can find it

Re: Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite

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Post by crab_galaxy »

pbronez wrote: post #77
nater5000 wrote: post #63

I don't know, this seems like an idea that maybe works in a specific context being generalized past the point of the original idea making sense. If the user needs to download a specific application to run this these web apps, then why not just send them that initial application in the first place? Why jump through the hoops of using Capsule when the same hoops can be jumped through to get to the same endpoint? If thi…

Seems pretty useful in an enterprise context to me. I see it as an alternative to 10 million vibe coded apps to dockerize and manage. You can put the runtime on everyone’s machine and provide a web version for really collaborative stuff. Bonus points for an intelligent way to manage these stored in OneDrive and other cloud folders. Easy to get corruption on SQLite files stored there.

It could be useful for us with home labs for the same reasons. Kind of annoying to deploy docker containers for all the services I build that amount to personalized/skinned trello boards.
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