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This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on news.ycombinator.com

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  • awesome-oss-alternatives

    Awesome list of open-source startup alternatives to well-known SaaS products 🚀

  • The list of projects seems to be at least partially based on https://github.com/RunaCapital/awesome-oss-alternatives.

  • basic-attention-token-crowdsale

    Basic Attention Token

  • Probably because of https://basicattentiontoken.org/

    For a group that's largely bet their fortunes on internet companies, it's kind of funny that anything crypto is so toxic here, but that's probably the reason.

    The actual browser is under good technical stewardship from what I know. It's essentially not-evil Chrome with an optional crypto-for-ads monetization model, a crypto wallet, and some primitive default privacy and adblocking tools.

    It suffers from the same technical deficiencies as Chrome (installing addons is harder than it should be, addon API is weak compared to firefox, Google controls the "store" for extensions), but I'd recommend it over any other Chromium-based browser.

  • InfluxDB

    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.

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  • awesome-selfhosted

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

  • Here's a similar list:

    https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

  • xg2xg

    by ex-googlers, for ex-googlers - a lookup table of similar tech & services

  • ossdatabase

    Source for ossdatabase.com

  • I have also built something similar at

    https://ossdatabase.com

    Recently released code under AGPL-3.

    But I want to go beyond aggregation and add following things

  • windmill

    Open-source developer platform to turn scripts into workflows and UIs. Fastest workflow engine (5x vs Airflow). Open-source alternative to Airplane and Retool.

  • Pipedream is listed as an OSS alternative to Integromat ... except it is just the automation that are open-sourced: https://www.opensourcealternative.to/project/Pipedream

    The platform itself is not even source available. I think it's a bit disingenuous in that case. At Windmill (https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill), we are actually building the OSS platform that you can self-host and that is an actual OSS alternative to ... pipedream.

  • find-oss

    A list of popular open source alternatives to proprietary SaaS

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • Grafana

    The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

  • I thought Grafana was open-core. They're OSS product is in Github - https://github.com/grafana/grafana and they also offer their enterprise version which requires a paid license. RH is pretty much the same.

    Maybe my definition of open-core is different than yours.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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