Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?

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  • SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • awesome-selfhosted

    A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers

  • And this is exactly the reason I self host[0]. I am pretty sure it's not just me. I have seen r/selfhosted[1] skyrocket in it popularity over past year or two. The number of application that you could self host are increasing daily. The only problem at the moment with self hosting seems to be the maintenance and setup but that also will be solved once many people start doing it. They say Earth is round. Everything repeats. Self hosting too will become mainstream once again

    [0]: Why start self hosting https://rohanrd.xyz/posts/why-start-self-hosting/

    [1]: https://reddit.com/r/selfhosted

  • LibreOffice

    Read-only LibreOffice core repo - no pull request (use gerrit instead https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/) - don't download zip, use https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/bundles/ instead (by LibreOffice)

  • > Want a password manager? It's a SaaS now.

    No, not all of them. Here is a password manager that runs locally, no SaaS: https://www.pwsafe.org/index.shtml -- plus here is a long list of compatible alternate versions that also are not Saas: https://www.pwsafe.org/relatedprojects.shtml

    > Note taking app? SaaS.

    Hmm, purists would say Emacs and Org-Mode here, but there's also a whole host of open source text editors that are not SaaS, and function just fine for "note taking".

    > Image editor or office suite? SaaS (thanks Adobe...)

    Again, no. The GIMP (https://www.gimp.org/) runs locally just fine for editing images on my systems, with no SaaS anywhere in sight.

    Also, Libreoffice (https://www.libreoffice.org/) runs locally, with no SaaS, just fine as well.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • librespot

    Open Source Spotify client library

  • But you can, in the case of spotify: https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot

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