The Windows equivalent would be Monitorian (https://github.com/emoacht/Monitorian). It doesn't have the adaptive curve algorithm, but I've been using it for over a year and it's indispensable.
It might not work for all scenarios, but it can work.
At some point I used RSSBandit (Open source desktop RSS reader for Windows), and I set up its %appdata% directory to be a subdirectory in the Dropbox folder. This can be done by modifying one of the config.xml files in the program's files. It worked. The whole state of the application was shared between computers.
Desktop app, synchronization between home and work, that was all I needed.
Thank you for that link. It's very interesting. I'm working on a protocol for brass reader that is similar to what he describes. It uses a shared filesystem like dropbox as the communication medium but it is a change set based protocol. I'm still not sure if it's going to work, but I'm going to give it a shot.
As an alternative to low-end VPS's it's not the worst idea in the world at $5 a month. It'd cost more than that to upgrade your home's cable internet connection to be able to serve traffic decently.
