Re:Show HN: Open SaaS – An open-source alternative to paid b...
by hot_town on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @03:57PM
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not related to your post at all, but thinking how cool it would be to have Jelly-flavoured Peanut Butter.
Re:Show HN: Open SaaS – An open-source alternative to paid b...
by matijash on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @04:55PM
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Thanks for the feedback! I see your point; we could make it clearer from the start that it is JS-oriented. I'm coming from that world, so it seems like I took it for granted.
Also re OSS positioning - I'm actually not aware of modern (but maybe I missed it), polished SaaS starters such as the paid ones that got really popular lately (e.g. supastarter, shipfast), so that's what prompted us into that kind of messaging. We'd like to create a community-driven starting point for developers of equal polish and quality.
Re:Show HN: Open SaaS – An open-source alternative to paid b...
by mappu on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @06:13PM
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I'm a bit blindsided by "got really popular lately" - these projects would be relevant to my work but they've completely slipped under my radar. Whereabouts are you hearing about those projects? Or (alternatively) where else are you talking about your project?
Re:Show HN: Open SaaS – An open-source alternative to paid b...
by matijash on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @06:18PM
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Twitter mostly! I am following a bunch of folks in indie hacker / building in public space. Also reddit
Re:Show HN: Open SaaS – An open-source alternative to paid b...
by actionfromafar on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @06:46PM
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Any podcast recommends?
Re:Show HN: Open SaaS – An open-source alternative to paid b...
by matijash on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @01:56AM
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I'm not a huge podcast person, somehow always prefer a more concise blog post.
Re:Show HN: Open SaaS – An open-source alternative to paid b...
by jonnycoder on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @08:45PM
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Also heard about shipfast on twitter and reddit. Twitter is big for promoting solopreneur stuff like this.
On a side note, LinkedIn has a lot of frequent posts if you follow certain projects. LlamaIndex is killing it on this front. Lots of great stuff and they even teamed up with Andrew Ng with advanced RAG techniques on deeplearning.ai
Re:Show HN: Open SaaS – An open-source alternative to paid b...
by ssss11 on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @12:38AM
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It’s not just JS-oriented it’s React-oriented. So those JS-oriented folks that know Svelte, Vue, etc instead would benefit from clearly stating that.
Still, it looks cool despite not knowing React myself. I might take it for a spin when I have some free time :) thanks for building this
The problem is how it's labelled as a true generic solution instead of being a JS SaaS boilerplate. Developers often either have specialisations or preferences, and luckily we have more than one option for each kind of application.
See SaasPegasus for a good example. Clearly Django oriented. I have my own boilerplate for my work in Laravel, but I don't brand it as the new saas kid on the block.
No gripes against OP, looks like a neat setup. Just the messaging reads to me off. Like it's focusing on the OSS side of it in a weird way. Plenty of boilerplates exist out there that aren't paid solutions, and all stack their own preferred dev tools that are majority open source. It's as if this were a product called "peanut flavoured peanut butter".