Hotel PMS & operation. We pay roughly $7000 per year. If I want api access it cost additional $700 per year. It took them 9 months to transfer the licence when I bought the property.
Do you have an email address I can get in touch with you on?
Ask HN: Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?
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#242Google Desktop Search (it is dead now anyway). Was brilliant while it lasted. There were some other alternatives as well but I think GDS starved them to death before Google got bored and killed GDS. (Please le me know if there are good alternatives, free/paid/open source, everything is interesting as long as they fo the same things GDS did and can convince me that they don't upload my data.)
I personally use an app called Everything[1] since I moved to win10. Win10's search indexing seems to be trash and its tendency to prioritize web results over desktop results is infuriating. Everything is good for finding something tucked away on your hard drive(s), is dead simple to use (give it a few minutes the first time around to index everything, then just search). I wish I could replace the existing Cortana wi…
Combine this with Wox Launcher and you can find any file in seconds with a few key strokes.
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#243Qualitative Data Analysis systems. RQDA and QualCoder are under development, but the pace is generally slow and many features are buggy and remain untested on common operating systems. Some products out there on the market are better than others (I use MaxQDA) but come at a hefty price, even with a student discount. Also transcription software. Not voice recognition, but software that assists with manual transcriptio…
Wouldn't creating a plugin for the likes of VLC or contributing directly to OpenShot be a better idea?
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#244Software for VJing, mapping images, light beams, etc to projectors, surfaces or screens.
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#245Software for VJing, mapping images, light beams, etc to projectors, surfaces or screens.
Open Frameworks?
Re: Ask HN: Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?
#246Hotel PMS & operation. We pay roughly $7000 per year. If I want api access it cost additional $700 per year. It took them 9 months to transfer the licence when I bought the property.
> We pay roughly $7000 per year. Erm, nobody is going to jump up and down to replace that software if that's all you have to pay. You can't get people to work on replacing Cadence, and that's a license that is on the order of $1 million per person per year.
I see some ~100 products at https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/tools/tools-a-z.html -- which one(s) did you have in mind?
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#247This article about how Microsoft Access won't die got me thinking about creating an open source alternative. I just retired and am looking for a project. I also have a history with msft that might be helpful. https://medium.com/young-coder/microsoft-access-the-zombie-d...
Yes! scrolled all the way down for this. In the non-tech world, a GUI/form builder + relational database that was extendible through a decent scripting language all in one package would be huge.
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#248foobar2000 (media player for Windows)
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#249Two that I have encountered: Aspera: a high-performance data transfer suit, used in genetics and the film industry. I wrote a blog post about it a year ago and still get near-daily emails asking me if there is an open source alternative yet. QUIC may provide a basis for a solution, but it needs to be explored. PDMS: software for planning, modeling and simulating oil and gas plants. Main two commercial suites are AVEV…
tus.io can saturate network connections reliably and in a resumable way, I wonder what more you would require that makes Aspera stand out as the only way to fly?
(honest question, and full disclosure: tus core author)
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#250Graphics and Design:
* Photoshop, GIMP is great but still a bit rough.
* Illustrator, Inkscape is great, but rough.
* Maya, Cinema4D: Blender is technically pretty good, UX is improving but still clunky. Even something like Silo would be pretty sweet (a fairly simple, pure 3d modeling program)
* Video editing: Is there really anything good out there? Last I tried the programs just straight out crashed.