Metabase is so fantastic - the guys who wrote it (originally called Caravel) met us in the AirBnB building when we were an early user - easily among my top 5 “most impressed” moments in the industry so far. I highly recommend it for absolutely anyone using SQL as their source of truth. Set up a read slave, host metabase, spend a week making pretty charts, make the C-suite love you forever. I’m pretty impressed to see this list from a VC firm!<p>While we’ve pivoted to more consumer friendly tools and less dev-tools (for now), I’m still working my butt off to make a future where self-hosted software (open source or not) can at least survive and ideally compete. I see three viable options: make it easier to install/manage in a users cloud (ala ReplicateD), make it easier for open source devs to host a paying user’s instance (ala rolling your own Stripe + AWS setup) and/or make it easier to physically ship preloaded plug-n-play hardware (my startup!)<p>If you’re an author of self-hosted software or anything on this list, feel free to reach out if you’re interested!
Some time ago there was a tweet making the rounds with a joke along the lines of:<p>"Congrats on your startup's Series A. Now you have enough runway to pay for 6 more months of<p><pre><code> - Jira
- Github
- Slack
- Google Office
- Google Cloud/AWS
- LaunchDarkly
- Contentful
- Tableau
- Zendesk
- Salesforce
- ...</code></pre>
"<p>I started to wonder if there is a market for a startup that simply takes all of the best-in-class open source alternatives and hosts the <i>whole package</i> that is commonly needed by companies. Would anyone here use something like that, and why don't smaller hosting providers invest in something like this? You see a lot of them offering basic Webmail/Calendar, but couldn't they go beyond that and use that as a possible revenue stream to compete with the big cloud providers?
For more software alternatives, try AlternativeTo (crowd-sourced) or LibHunt (mix of crowd-source and ai).<p>[0] <a href="https://alternativeto.net/" rel="nofollow">https://alternativeto.net/</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.libhunt.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.libhunt.com/</a>
I cannot seem to find a FOSS version of what I know as industrial / plant process monitoring. Think Input A and B go to Process C which is making Amount N and passing them to output D. Usually you would see this as a series of pipes, valves, machines, etc.<p>Maybe something like a SCADA visualization? IT would be excellent if it could be web based so I could share the view, and then feed it data from a back end db or similar.<p>What I'm actually interested in it for: Network monitoring for natural disaster information in connected systems. That way I can display how a series of rivers is being tied together, work in things like flow rate, topping rates for dams, alert levels, etc. Then, when things are getting hairy, issue alerts and change upstream/downstream colours.<p>Edit: Scadavis.io + node-red looks possible, but also looks like a complete pain.
Another one for the No-code database category. My new favorite, heard about it on HN a few weeks ago - grist!<p><a href="https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core</a>
Hosting this is still a major hurdle for ordinary folks.<p>That's why I'm currently building a light and low-cost container hosting service to run selected FOSS apps. Setup and hosting is all taken care of, while still giving you full data access over SFTP if you want that.<p>Part of the revenue is also shared with the original authors to keep the project sustainable. Or donated to a cause of the author's choosing maybe.<p>Check out the free beta here: <a href="https://pikapods.com" rel="nofollow">https://pikapods.com</a>
I'm surprised office software are not mentioned. To Google Docs Editors / Office 365, an alternative could be ONLYOFFICE. Their word processor, spreadsheet etc work both online and as desktop software, high compatibility with MS formats, and they have a free personal tier and also business plans. I'm not affiliated, just a happy user. And they're EU based!<p><a href="https://www.onlyoffice.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.onlyoffice.com</a><p>EDIT: I see that the repo lists companies established "in the last 10 years" and OO's company was founded in 2009, so they're not a candidate for inclusion.
I'm sure that there are many amazing products on this list but I just want to give a shout out to Typesense (Algolia alternative) from personal experience.<p>The product is great and the founders are incredibly attentive to their community.
Posthog[1] is an excellent alternative to Google Analytics that should be in that list.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/PostHog/posthog" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/PostHog/posthog</a>
Related thread: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30299223" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30299223</a>
It's sad that Phacility shut down. The VCS browsing side of Phabricator, Diffusion, is a bit clunky compared to, say, GitLab (though GitLab locks several things behind a paywall, and clunky is better than nothing), but the issue tracker, Maniphest, is a competent offering.
This list makes me feel terrible. It's like I always use the other ones.<p>I also have some weird relationship with beauty, if the product is more beautiful I get attracted to it, forgetting some of the technical differences.