Hakan Shehu

Founder at Colanode | Senior Software Engineer

Hakan is the founder of Colanode, an open-source & local-first collaboration workspace. Previously he was VP of Engineering at Gjirafa, Inc, where he led multiple teams working on large-scale apps for content management, data analytics and advertising.

15:15 - 15:45

26 OCT - SUN TALKS

Building Colanode, an open-source & local-first collaboration workspace

Introducing Colanode, an open-source, local-first alternative to Slack and Notion. This talk explains local-first fundamentals, the challenges we faced building Colanode (offline storage, sync, conflicts, performance), the architectural decisions behind it, and what’s next. Learn more about our mission to make self-hosting easy, with portable data and zero vendor lock-in.