The Future of Open Source, or Why Open Core Is Dead

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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
  • validkube

    ValidKube combines the best open-source tools to help ensure Kubernetes YAML best practices, hygiene & security.

  • Komodor, Founded 2020, 325 stars

  • mizu

    Discontinued The API traffic viewer for Kubernetes providing deep visibility into all API traffic and payloads going in, out and across containers and pods inside a Kubernetes cluster. Think TCPDump and Wireshark re-invented for Kubernetes [Moved to: https://github.com/kubeshark/kubeshark]

  • UP9, Founded 2019, 3,743 stars

  • 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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  • OPAL

    Policy and data administration, distribution, and real-time updates on top of Policy Agents (OPA, Cedar, ...) (by permitio)

  • Permit, Founded 2020, 646 stars

  • ziti

    The parent project for OpenZiti. Here you will find the executables for a fully zero trust, application embedded, programmable network @OpenZiti

  • open core is dead long live open foundation? i dunno - to me it sounds like the same thing just with a different name attached to it. You can add NetFoundry (full disclosure, i work there) to your list too - founded 2019 (i think). Our offering is fully deployable as open source and has 325 stars today. I think where it makes sense is when you don't want to be the one owning/running/maintaining the project, like elastic... Makes me wonder if there's a list for opencore projects like this.

  • cal.com

    Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone.

  • A rather sketchy instance of open core that I've recently come across is this cal.com repo. They are "open core" but their non-open code is entwined with their AGPL code, and their founder seems to have a (in my opinion) wrong idea of what their license means.

  • 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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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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