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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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Post by polote »

HarveyKandola wrote: post #31
zeeZ wrote: post #28

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

Nice, I didn't know you existed, it's great what you have done, but still not at the same level than confluence.

I'm myself too have been working for more than 2 years on an alternative to confluence and haven't reached the same level either, but closer and closer every day

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

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Post by throwaway81523 »

mackrevinack wrote: post #7
throwaway81523 wrote: post #5

None 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

The main thing I want mapping for is navigating to place X in my car with voice prompts. Osmand is way too slow to notice that I've missed a turn or something like that. So it thinks I'm somewhere that I'm not, and persists in that belief until I'm off course for maybe some minutes. Google Maps is much better in that regard. But both of them really need a user control (pushbutton, maybe even a bluetooth pushbutton on the dashboard so you don't have to look at your phone) that says "mapping app, you are confused! I am not where you think I am. Update location to current GPS reading and recalculate route right now". Also, Osmand is ridiculously slow at route calculation. Idk how it can be so slow. Garmin automotive GPS of 10+ years ago were far faster at it despite having 1/100th the processing power of a modern phone.

The map data itself also isn't that great, but at least you can hunt around for the location you want while the car is parked or pulled over. The route recalculation issue is massively frustrating because it nabs you while you are actually driving, dodging other cars, etc.

I hadn't heard of Organic Maps. I'll look for it. Thanks.

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

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Post by leathersoft »

pc86 wrote: post #55
leathersoft wrote: post #2

Hands down a solution equivalent to Jira. I see so many devops hacking on top of Jira, it would be so much helpful if there was an open source, totally customizable, solution to manage tickets (as complete as Jira).

What are some of the JIRA features that you see missing from open source implementations?

Dead simple ticket management (sprints and so on) linked to GH issues and PRs.

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

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Post by nh2 »

ayewo wrote: post #47
nh2 wrote: post #17

A 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

I hadn't heard of Papercups until now. It looks quite relevant.

But it seems it's now in maintanence mode (I checked out their blog and posted): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30313260

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

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Post by ayewo »

nh2 wrote: post #64
ayewo wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No affiliation, but have you looked at https://papercups.io/ ? They are also OSS: https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups

I hadn't heard of Papercups until now. It looks quite relevant. But it seems it's now in maintanence mode (I checked out their blog and posted): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30313260

I wasn't aware of this, so thanks for the heads up.

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

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Post by rcarmo »

leathersoft wrote: post #63
pc86 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are some of the JIRA features that you see missing from open source implementations?

Dead simple ticket management (sprints and so on) linked to GH issues and PRs.

Gitea.io?

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

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Post by 0xdeadb00f »

okhuman wrote: post #20
0xdeadb00f wrote: post #6

The Ory [0] stuff seems pretty cool. But I have no use for it as of yet. 0: https://ory.sh/

I'm making a similar one here: https://github.com/authcompanion/authcompanion , if you wouldn't mind sharing your impressions of it.

Hey. I don't actually know jack about auth systems :P. But I'll check it out
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