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by ersiees 597 days ago
Why is it only for 7 days available?
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It's a free app. I don't want to keep all the data for a long time. Should I increase this? What duration makes sense for you?
If it was purely local (saved on localStorage) it could be stored indefinitely? But then of course it would be hard to share.
Store the state in the URL
But then you have to reshare every modification
Yep. It's a share-first app in a sense.
30 days makes more sense

Also why not make it all client side? When they grab a share link you can convert the text to image, image to base64 to spend to the URL, and when somebody opens the link you ocr it and recreate the list.

Me and my wife make some changes together. Add, remove, check, uncheck. Groceries list, etc.

With this approach we should share the new URL again after each change.

base64 isn’t just for images. You can encode text so unsure why you’d need OCR?
I would try to find data like "tasks over 30 days old never get completed" and tie the decision (and marketing) to something like that.