Linen.dev: The 500KB Slack Alternative

• linen.dev

  29 2,731 9.7 TypeScript

  Lightweight Google-searchable Slack alternative for Communities

  

I was reading through https://github.com/Linen-dev/linen.dev/blob/main/docs/nextjs... and https://github.com/Linen-dev/linen.dev/blob/main/apps/web/.e...

Do I really need all these API keys for s3, sentry, push service, ngrok, etc to run a web app on a home network?

• Zulip

  117 20,056 10.0 Python

  Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.

  

> Easy-ish to self-host, cheap to buy hosted.

And, perhaps most relevant to my complaint, they offer hosting for open source projects (unlike Mattermost which is ... like, "send us email and we'll think about it" or something). I would guess Mattermost would feel the most comfortabe to Slack users, since I admit that Zulip has a different mental model than Slack, but I believe it is much better for ongoing thread management once one gets used to it (IOW, had they won the fight, it would be Slack that would be the "eww, what is going on with this threading model?!")

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https://github.com/zulip/zulip#readme (Apache 2!) just as a contrast to the sibling's LTGTFY comment :-(

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  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.

  

• Rocket.Chat

  118 38,849 9.9 TypeScript

  The communications platform that puts data protection first.

  

Also Rocket, a self hosted open source alternative: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat

• heroicons

  78 20,690 7.3 JavaScript

  A set of free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons for UI development.

  

With icons, I've stopped using icon libraries a while back and now import just the SVG code that I need. I'm a big fan of Hero Icons[1] and they offer a way to quickly copy JSX or SVG code to the clipboard to faciliate this workflow.

[1]: https://heroicons.com/

• tabler-icons

  36 17,278 9.2 JavaScript

  A set of over 5200 free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons for you to use in your web projects.

  

Additional shoutout to https://github.com/tabler/tabler-icons

• source-map-explorer

  4 3,777 1.1 TypeScript

  Analyze and debug space usage through source maps

I use source-map-explorer to see what's inside. Lighthouse Treemap provides a similar view.

[source-map-explorer]: https://github.com/danvk/source-map-explorer

[Lighthouse Treemap]: https://umaar.com/dev-tips/270-devtools-lighthouse-treemap/

• AnswerOverflow

  25 750 9.6 TypeScript

  Indexing Discord Help Channel Questions into Google

  

If you're interested in the alternative of an indexing app, you might like https://www.answeroverflow.com/, it's open source as well https://github.com/AnswerOverflow/AnswerOverflow if you want something to contribute to! (for the record i'm the developer of it)

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• homepage

  26 3,683 7.4 TypeScript

  The homepage of Phosphor Icons, a flexible icon family for everyone (by phosphor-icons)

  

Phosphor icons are also great: https://phosphoricons.com

• RemixIcon

  14 6,274 7.4 Less

  Open source neutral style icon system

  

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