News Summary

• Six months ago I wrote about Eigen: a European Google Workspace alternative where you own your data.
• Back then I had five basic apps, built in two months of spare time.
• Here is where it stands.
• Five new apps joined the workspace:Beyond new apps, a lot happened under the hood: Per-user databases, file-based storage, Yjs for real-time collaboration.
• Nothing fundamental broke.
• The tricky parts turned out to be cross-user operations.
• The relay layer that solves this is also the foundation for horizontal scaling.
• Since each user already has all their data in one separate directory, you can shard by user across multiple servers.