#3 – Geoffrey Litt: Malleable software, local state management & Riffle
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Power User Music App
- Geoffrey Litt aimed to build a power user music app and saw Riffle as the perfect tool.
- He wanted to focus on the client side and create the "best music app" possible, prioritizing user experience over backend complexity.
- This led him to become the first design partner for Riffle, leveraging SQLite and relational queries to handle music metadata efficiently.
- This approach was aimed at power users who value speed, data density, and low latency, unlike mainstream music apps like Spotify which often have slow desktop apps with unnecessary network reliance.
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