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piotrkulpinski··on I got hooked on browsing openalternative.co is "Most Popular" list
There's also https://euroalternative.co in the same space
piotrkulpinski··on Show HN: Fast parser and generator for RSS, Atom, OPML and popular namespaces
Looks great! Do you have any benchmarks comparing the performance with similar packages?
piotrkulpinski··on OpenAlternative – open-source Alternatives to Popular Software
That's a great idea! I'll try to implement it soon. Thanks a lot.
piotrkulpinski··on OpenAlternative – open-source Alternatives to Popular Software
I also use Inngest, Plausible and PostHog which are open source. Hard to find a decent alternative to S3 and even if you find one, they just use S3 under the hood so what's the point?
piotrkulpinski··on OpenAlternative – open-source Alternatives to Popular Software
We have dedicated alternative pages for a lot of projects, including Splunk: https://openalternative.co/alternatives/splunk
piotrkulpinski··on Atlassian announces end of support for Opsgenie
Here's a list of open source alternatives to switch to: https://openalternative.co/alternatives/opsgenie

Most of them can be self-hosted so you won't be locked in in case that happens again.

piotrkulpinski··on Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics
If you're interested, you can find a list of similar, open-source alternatives (including Umami) on https://openalternative.co/categories/website-analytics
piotrkulpinski··on I've analyzed the tech stack of nearly 500 open-source companies
Thank you!
piotrkulpinski··on I've analyzed the tech stack of nearly 500 open-source companies
I run a website dedicated to gathering the best open-source companies. Recently, I analyzed the technologies each company uses. It was a challenging task, but I was able to identify nearly 250 different languages, frameworks, and development tools.

Enjoy!

piotrkulpinski··on Show HN: I made an open-source personal dashboard builder
Looks great! Would you mind submitting it to OpenAlternative? https://openalternative.co/submit
piotrkulpinski··on Ask HN: I want to create IMDB for open source projects
I've built https://openalternative.co a month ago, but it's pretty niched down to software/saas applications. I think a more general one for broader selection of open source software would also be nice to have.

The code for OpenAlternative is on GitHub if you want to use some or take inspiration.

piotrkulpinski··on Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary software
I think both models have some space in the open source community. You can still learn and get value from a commercial product even if they only share the source code.
piotrkulpinski··on Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary software
Great suggestion! I plan to add search functionality soon.
piotrkulpinski··on Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary software
Works fine for me. Could you check again?
piotrkulpinski··on Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary software
Is Photoshop open source?
piotrkulpinski··on Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary software
Thanks! Will do.
piotrkulpinski··on Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary software
Exactly! That was kind of the point of this to pick freemium software which gives me more confidence of the future of the project in oppose to free open-source without a proper business model.
piotrkulpinski··on Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary software
That's what I was trying to achieve. You can find information like latest commit date which can indicate that the projects is actively maintained. Plus, I picked mostly hosted, freemium applications which have incentives to keep the software up to date and maintained.

As pre your comment about descriptions, I took them directly from the repositories where most of them brag about being "open source". That could be a good idea to modify that to me more informative.

piotrkulpinski··on Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary software
Yes, indeed. I didn't know this site until I launched mine, but it seems to me they're just listing all of the popular open source projects.

I've tried to mostly curate the projects that are actively maintained, and have some sort of hosted, paid alternative. This gives you more confidence, that the app will be maintained as they're making money out of it.