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Field apps that work without signal.

A field app is judged in a basement, a warehouse or a site office with one bar of signal. If the app assumes connectivity, the person stops using it and goes back to photographing things on their personal phone and sending them by message — which is exactly the problem it was bought to solve.

So offline is treated as a contract, not a feature: writes queue locally, sync is idempotent, conflicts resolve to a defined rule rather than last-writer-wins, and the queue survives a force-quit.

What to look for when hiring

Ask what happens when the same queued action is retried twice. If the answer does not involve idempotency, the app will eventually double-count something.

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