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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.