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Ask HN: Which open source versions of SaaS products would you like to see?

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Re: Ask HN: Which open source versions of SaaS products would you like to see?

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Confluence. I've been looking for alternatives ever since they did the stupid cloud shove, but I haven't found anything coming close enough and robust enough that I can give to everyone, from developers to sales and HR, without having to worry about teaching them another language.

[Shameless plug]

I started this a while ago and maybe it helps you:

https://github.com/documize/community

Re: Ask HN: Which open source versions of SaaS products would you like to see?

#34

PopSQL Also, PDF readers on windows are very bad. Acrobat doesn't have dark mode and it feels heavy. Xodo crashes a lot. SumatraPDF is very light weight but lacks a lot of features and lacks dark mode too. If you read a lot at night, this would be very important to you. And I am not talking about the UI only, the PDF itself gets inverted. Xodo does that very well.

Beekeeper is pretty good. We’re also working on open sourcing our sql editor but it’s not ready yet.

Re: Ask HN: Which open source versions of SaaS products would you like to see?

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An RMM like NinjaRMM or N-Central, and HUGE points if it written in Ruby On Rails or VueJS. I would dump everything and move to there immediately, start contributing and sponsor. I want to write one myself, but I don't have the time.

MeshCentral

https://github.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral “This is a full computer management web site. With MeshCentral, you can run your own web server and it to remotely manage and control computers on a local network or anywhere on the internet. Once you get the server started, will create a mesh (a group of computers) and then download and install a mesh agent on each computer you want to manage. A…”

Re: Ask HN: Which open source versions of SaaS products would you like to see?

#36

I'd love a solid open source version of calendly.

Cal.com, erstwhile Calenso, https://github.com/calcom/cal.com

The co-founders are nice people and I have a years worth of the premium version. Unfortunately, too buggy and people end up booking at the wrong hour, multiple-events gets reset when I change time-slots in another.

I haven't found something as simple as Calendly -- that just works. A commenter here once commented about a different alternative but that got bought out and shuttered. I'm still on the final look-out till end of this month (FEB), else going back to the Calendly subscription.

Re: Ask HN: Which open source versions of SaaS products would you like to see?

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post #34

PopSQL Also, PDF readers on windows are very bad. Acrobat doesn't have dark mode and it feels heavy. Xodo crashes a lot. SumatraPDF is very light weight but lacks a lot of features and lacks dark mode too. If you read a lot at night, this would be very important to you. And I am not talking about the UI only, the PDF itself gets inverted. Xodo does that very well.

Beekeeper is pretty good. We’re also working on open sourcing our sql editor but it’s not ready yet.

Wish you the best.

I like PopSQL because it has ClickHouse support, and dashboards.

Re: Ask HN: Which open source versions of SaaS products would you like to see?

#38
Trello.

Lots of half-baked clones but remarkably few quality foss implementations. WeKan is… a mess. Taiga is complex & the frontend is CoffeeScript (!!). FocalBoard looks about the best of them, but it’s still missing many features and they’ve explicitly rejected calls for OAuth and/ or SAML because they want as a paid feature.

Re: Ask HN: Which open source versions of SaaS products would you like to see?

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post #14
post #3

A fully self-hosted alternative to GMail, Google Calendar, Google Photos, Google Keep and Google Drive (including the office suite apps), just as user-friendly and capable (in antispam, security, synchronization and so on).

have you seen Zimbra [1][2]? [1]: https://www.zimbra.com/business-email-collaboration/ [2]: https://github.com/zimbra

Ah! This is nice. Didn't realize Zimbra went open source. Zimbra was sold to Yahoo! quite a while back (2007). Zimbra used to open a whole lot of enterprise email services during its time.

Re: Ask HN: Which open source versions of SaaS products would you like to see?

#40

Trello. Lots of half-baked clones but remarkably few quality foss implementations. WeKan is… a mess. Taiga is complex & the frontend is CoffeeScript (!!). FocalBoard looks about the best of them, but it’s still missing many features and they’ve explicitly rejected calls for OAuth and/ or SAML because they want as a paid feature.

I’ve also tried many products to replace Trello and finally settled with Taiga. It doesn’t look complex, and the UI is great too. The only missing bits I find are native mobile apps.
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