The database part of Notion/a simplified Airtable/Google Sheets storing to plain text files or CSV. Editing and manipulating CSV by hand is a pain. Something like a simplified sqlite viewer/editor?
Baserow might be interesting.
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#42TurboTax and their ilk.
Tax software is fucking evil and by having a FOSS version of it we could remove a huge lobbyist by driving them out of business which will then simplify tax filing for everyone.
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#43An 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.
TacticalRMM... MeshCetral plus a lot of Django
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#44PopSQL 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.
We at TogetherDB have SQL bookmarks as well and will Open Source in Q2 this year!
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#45Toggl Time tracker
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#46TurboTax and their ilk. Tax software is fucking evil and by having a FOSS version of it we could remove a huge lobbyist by driving them out of business which will then simplify tax filing for everyone.
Every state, county, city, township has it's own tax structures that change every year, it seems. Federal is pretty easy.
It's the need for legal review by tax attorneys and CPAs that makes tax software really really hard to make.
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#47A combination of customer support chat (Intercom), customer relationship management / sales (Streak, NetHunt), and customer payments tracking. So basically, the stack that is needed to handle B2B customers as a startup. Currently these tools are very isolated, and where integrations exist, they are poor. We have to manage customers in 3 different systems that don't know about each other. When making sales progress on…
No affiliation, but have you looked at https://papercups.io/ ? They are also OSS: https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups
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#48The database part of Notion/a simplified Airtable/Google Sheets storing to plain text files or CSV. Editing and manipulating CSV by hand is a pain. Something like a simplified sqlite viewer/editor?
This project literally bills itself as an OSS Airtable alternative, so maybe? I've only tinkered with it: https://www.nocodb.com/
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#50None of that office or bug tracking stuff is that interesting or important imho. There's plenty of alternatives that work well enough. The interesting stuff is the hardest. From Google services alone: language translation, voice transcription, maps/directions (open street map is only partway there and Osmand is almost unusable), and of course searching the entire web.
osmand does a lot of things so it depends what you are trying to do with it really. organic maps (which also uses openstreetmap) is a bit more straight forward and minimal and is what i usually recommend to most people
Thanks. Osmand has indeed a very complicated GUI which would need a lot of careful redesign or to be split into 3 or 4 different apps for different purposes. Unfortunately Organic Maps doesn't import gpx and I have a substantial library of tracks in that format. Strange choice because I think that gpx is the de facto standard.