Website with opensource alternatives that actually measure how much is foss ?
I've been looking for a website that just lists opensource alternatives, or even cheaper alternatives to proprietary software. Most of the time I have to still look for it myself, and when I find some good ones, they have features behind paywalls anyways, or…
I've been looking for a website that just lists opensource alternatives, or even cheaper alternatives to proprietary software. Most of the time I have to still look for it myself, and when I find some good ones, they have features behind paywalls anyways, or they are just open core, etc etc. Is there any good website that actually gives you this info ? Also if it's easy to deploy or not via docker for example ? Am I the only one having this pain everytime ? I'm this close to making my own website just for this and launch claude to analyse shitlo*ds of websites. I'd usually just got to opensourcealternative.to, but they rarely have the latest projects in xyz domain I'm looking for.
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This is close enough, very few projects listed, and funnily enough Uptime Kuma to which I contributed to not that long ago ! I want a huge list, replaceable or not, cheaper alternative or not, foss alternative or not basically. Lots of my friends and family use this or that tool, and I try to push self hosting or alternatives to them but can't find the right ones.
Actually yes ! Quite an amazing awesome list, been through it and many others to find projects in x language, or y framework etc. But isn't exactly what I need too.
Huh? They have 140 projects evaluated.
Fair. Are you finding that some projects are open source, but they hold back the important bits?
Kinda, just missed the 'is it easily self hostable', the 'is it really foss', and 'is there a cheaper alternative if not foss'
Oooooh that's also very good, like the infamous redis incident, foss, then not, then foss again iirc
its as close as you're going to get without building it yourself
I think this might be what you’re after https://isitreallyfoss.com/
https://selfh.st is what you're looking for
Tried this? https://awesome-selfhosted.net/
honestly i feel this in my bones last month i spent three hours finding a self hosted bookmark manager that was actually foss and not just "free tier with 50 bookmarks then pay us" - the sites that list alternatives never tell you about the hidden gotchas what would be really useful is something that tracks license changes too, so many projects start foss then go open core after they get popular