awesome-oss-alternatives VS awesome-selfhosted

I see that you said github repo, but my life experience has been that those "awesome" style repos are committed to once and then ignore all pull requests or issues going forward. Thus, I think the audience would be better served by AlternativeTo or one of its ilk, which offers a licensing filter on their lists (e.g. https://alternativeto.net/software/github/?license=opensourc... )

But, a quick search for alternative coughed up a few results, which exhibit the behavior I described https://github.com/RunaCapital/awesome-oss-alternatives#awes... https://github.com/btw-so/open-source-alternatives?tab=readm...

One may also find more via topic exploration, e.g. https://github.com/topics/alternatives

Yeah, although I've always found the criteria of this list strange (In particular the requirement to be a for-profit startup) and their categorization of open source is not clear as reflected in this issue I opened.

I've called them out on it here and here before.

An awesome list of alternatives to commercial software build by OSS developers and startups, collected Igor Kotua on GitHub: https://github.com/RunaCapital/awesome-oss-alternatives opensource startups

There are thousands more at https://awesome-selfhosted.net.

Awesome Selfhosted the ultimate list of open source self-hosted tools

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cloud_platforms

awesome-selfhosted has a serverless / FaaS category that just links to awesome-sysadmin > PaaS: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#sof...

https://awesome-selfhosted.net/

Huge list of self hosted stuff.

I personally run Plex(TV/Movie/music), Audiobookshelf(podcasts), Immich(Google photos), along with a bunch of other unrelated stuff like Home Assistant, Apache, etc.

It's all run off an beelink n100 and some NAS drives. Super cheap and useful.

awesome-selfhosted

For self-hosting, one that I enjoyed using in the past is YunoHost. [0]

But there are many, and you can find some lists on the web, eg. on awesome-selfhosted [1]

[0] https://yunohost.org/

[1] https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab...

I think there are two aspects to this:

* The software: different open source solutions have very different requirements at a high level: language, platform or even system requirements. Say you want to take messaging off centralized platforms: you need to host something like Matrix, which is very well made and polished but takes a lot of resources to run. Alternatively, you could use Jabber, which scales like no other but is an absolute hell to setup and maintain. Same can be said about music, videos, movies and all other things

* Operations: probably simple if you ask someone on HN, but you still need to understand networking, operating systems and file systems. I started using Linux when I was 11 in the distant 2000, and even now I'm not very enthusiastic if I have to make some changes to my zfs. You also need to consider backups and security and resources. Say you wanna run openstreetmap(which we recently started doing at work). Awesome but that requires an ungodly amount of fiddling in addition to an astonishing amount of time needed to unpack, even on enterprise hardware.

If you are in the tech world, https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted is a great place to start. But if you want to make it simpler... Idk... A lot of people would need to put in a lot of effort, as in build a linux distro around this idea, along with "recommended hardware", one click install(a very dumbed down equivalent of portainer), and some backup and alerting mechanisms built into the system. It's a tough question and frankly I don't have the answer.