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Problem Breakdown
The scaling defect is that personal-data apps are built and demoed at toy scale, then meet real vaults (50k notes, 10GB attachments, years of edits) whose size breaks every main-thread assumption: indexing, search, graph queries, and startup all degrade together into an app that 'gets worse the more you use it'. Note a…
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