KB01111 pulls Mike off the cloud and onto your own machine

KB01111 has taken Mike, which previously leaned on Supabase (a hosted cloud backend that handles the database and user logins), and rebuilt it to stand on its own. The data layer now talks directly to a database you control, and the whole thing is packaged as a downloadable desktop application that boots a local server on the machine it's installed on - no outside cloud account required to run it.

The team also wrote its own login and password system from scratch to replace the hosted one. That's the part to look at hardest if you're tempted to adopt this: a home-grown authentication layer is convenient but carries real security risk until it's been independently vetted, and it introduces a couple of mandatory secrets that have to be managed at deployment.