piotrkulpinski
Re:I got hooked on browsing openalternative.co is "Most Popular" list
on Friday September 12, 2025 @04:41AM (#45220052)
There's also https://euroalternative.co in the same space
Re:Show HN: Feedsmith — Fast parser & generator for RSS, Atom, OPML fe...
on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @02:09PM (#43908001)
Looks great! Do you have any benchmarks comparing the performance with similar packages?
Re:OpenAlternative – open-source Alternatives to Popular Software
on Friday April 25, 2025 @10:50AM (#43794181)
That's a great idea! I'll try to implement it soon. Thanks a lot.
Re:OpenAlternative – open-source Alternatives to Popular Software
on Friday April 25, 2025 @08:23AM (#43792841)
I also use Inngest, Plausible and PostHog which are open source. Hard to find a decent alternative to S3 and even if you find one, they just use S3 under the hood so what's the point?
Re:OpenAlternative – open-source Alternatives to Popular Software
on Friday April 25, 2025 @02:21AM (#43790689)
We have dedicated alternative pages for a lot of projects, including Splunk: https://openalternative.co/alternatives/splunk
Re:Atlassian announces end of support for Opsgenie
on Thursday March 06, 2025 @05:00PM (#43285481)
Here's a list of open source alternatives to switch to: https://openalternative.co/alternatives/opsgenie
Most of them can be self-hosted so you won't be locked in in case that happens again.
Re:Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Anal...
on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @06:33AM (#43088389)
If you're interested, you can find a list of similar, open-source alternatives (including Umami) on https://openalternative.co/categories/website-analytics
Show HN: A collection of 150 self-hosted alternatives to popular software
Re:I've analyzed the tech stack of nearly 500 open-source companies
on Monday January 13, 2025 @09:21AM (#42683659)
Thank you!
Re:I've analyzed the tech stack of nearly 500 open-source companies
on Monday January 13, 2025 @08:48AM (#42683376)
I run a website dedicated to gathering the best open-source companies. Recently, I analyzed the technologies each company uses. It was a challenging task, but I was able to identify nearly 250 different languages, frameworks, and development tools.
Enjoy!
I've analyzed the tech stack of nearly 500 open-source companies
Show HN: A collection of the best tools to build software faster
Hi, Piotr hereI just created a free, curated collection of the best developer tools designed to speed up the process when building your next project.Feel free to explore, discover, and contribute by submitting your favorite tools to the site.Enjoy and thank you for your support!
Re:Show HN: I made an open-source personal dashboard builder
on Monday August 05, 2024 @04:13AM (#41159093)
Looks great! Would you mind submitting it to OpenAlternative? https://openalternative.co/submit
Plunk has just become open-source email platform
Re:Ask HN: I want to create IMDB for Open source projects
on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @03:04AM (#40049107)
I've built https://openalternative.co a month ago, but it's pretty niched down to software/saas applications. I think a more general one for broader selection of open source software would also be nice to have.
The code for OpenAlternative is on GitHub if you want to use some or take inspiration.
Re:Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary sof...
on Friday March 08, 2024 @07:49AM (#39640576)
I think both models have some space in the open source community. You can still learn and get value from a commercial product even if they only share the source code.
Re:Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary sof...
on Friday March 08, 2024 @07:47AM (#39640558)
Great suggestion! I plan to add search functionality soon.
Re:Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary sof...
on Friday March 08, 2024 @06:34AM (#39640122)
Works fine for me. Could you check again?
Re:Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary sof...
on Friday March 08, 2024 @06:34AM (#39640118)
Is Photoshop open source?
Re:Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary sof...
on Friday March 08, 2024 @06:34AM (#39640113)
Thanks! Will do.
Re:Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary sof...
on Friday March 08, 2024 @06:33AM (#39640110)
Exactly! That was kind of the point of this to pick freemium software which gives me more confidence of the future of the project in oppose to free open-source without a proper business model.
Re:Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary sof...
on Friday March 08, 2024 @06:31AM (#39640100)
That's what I was trying to achieve. You can find information like latest commit date which can indicate that the projects is actively maintained. Plus, I picked mostly hosted, freemium applications which have incentives to keep the software up to date and maintained.
As pre your comment about descriptions, I took them directly from the repositories where most of them brag about being "open source". That could be a good idea to modify that to me more informative.
Re:Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary sof...
on Friday March 08, 2024 @06:29AM (#39640082)
Yes, indeed. I didn't know this site until I launched mine, but it seems to me they're just listing all of the popular open source projects.
I've tried to mostly curate the projects that are actively maintained, and have some sort of hosted, paid alternative. This gives you more confidence, that the app will be maintained as they're making money out of it.
Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary software
Hi, Piotr hereI was collecting nice open-source companies for quite some time now. Mostly to take some inspiration and learn from their code.Last week, I though it would be fun to learn this Astro thing everyone's talking about. So I thought building a directory website out of this collection was pretty good idea.After 2 days of building, OpenAlternative was born. It's a community driven list...