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Ask HN: What software is so good you are surprised it is free?
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#72Definitely Publii - open source Static CMS with GUI and themes.
Https://getpublii.com
Re: Ask HN: What software is so good you are surprised it is free?
#73It's not open source, but I'm surprised that world-class software like Google Drive / Docs are free.
Re: Ask HN: What software is so good you are surprised it is free?
#74It's not open source, but I'm surprised that world-class software like Google Drive / Docs are free.
I stopped using both of those due to how distinctly not world-class they are.
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#75I'm still in awe that no matter what coding stack you use, you can almost always do everything you need without paying a dime.
With Microsoft, even Visual Studio Team Services is free - private Git hosting for up to five users, a decent CI/CD orchestration platform, a private Nuget feed, project planning, etc.
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#76VLC. Pretty much my entire development stack. The programming community in general is bloody amazing. I feel very grateful to be a part of it.
And libVLC for that matter. I had to embed some media viewers in a Qt app and libVLC made it a breeze.
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#77Kodi. It's amazing how far that project has come since xbmc.
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#78Zim Desktop Wiki (http://zim-wiki.org/). It is great note taking application that supports Rich Text features such as bold, italic, checkbox and bullet lists. It also supports Greek letters, subscripts, superscripts, and Unicode, making it very useful for entering mathematical equations.
Re: Ask HN: What software is so good you are surprised it is free?
#79Not free, but much too cheap for what you get :) Affinity Photo + Affinity Designer: https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/
Well, if you want something for editing photos that is truly free as in beer and speech, try the awesome darktable: https://www.darktable.org/
I'm also always blown away by how incredibly easy to use and at the same time how powerful hugin is. In this long list of for-pay stitching applications, Hugin is the only one of two which are free (again, beer and speech) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_photo_stitching_...
Re: Ask HN: What software is so good you are surprised it is free?
#80cowsay