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Re: Open-source alternatives to popular B2B tools

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Post by arcturus17 »

pratio wrote: post #8

You guys are using cloudinary to server images it seems which is blocked by most adblocker lists because it's to serve video ads a lot. Assets seemed to be served under https://res.cloudinary.com/adaface so I can't unblock just your one company. Great effort though, seems similar to github awesome lists. I use https://github.com/topics/awesome to always get the latest ones

Damn, I just built a web app that uses Cloudinary for image management and storage… Is this widely known? I use an adblocker and never saw the issue in dev.

Re: Open-source alternatives to popular B2B tools

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Post by artemonster »

Everytime I look into B2B software space (I am a complete outsider, btw), I see that here and there always pop up some new company, offering something similar to competitors and what can be stiched together using open source (and almost free, not counting the support) tools. How these companies thrive? Why customers keep buying new stuff, when there are solutions already to most of the business neeeds out there (and even free ones!). Is this still the case of idiot-managers doing decisions like "nobody was fired for buying IBM" (and now SAP, salesforce, ) or am I not seeing something? Genuine qustions, really interested.

Re: Open-source alternatives to popular B2B tools

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Post by pratio »

arcturus17 wrote: post #11
pratio wrote: post #8

You guys are using cloudinary to server images it seems which is blocked by most adblocker lists because it's to serve video ads a lot. Assets seemed to be served under https://res.cloudinary.com/adaface so I can't unblock just your one company. Great effort though, seems similar to github awesome lists. I use https://github.com/topics/awesome to always get the latest ones

Damn, I just built a web app that uses Cloudinary for image management and storage… Is this widely known? I use an adblocker and never saw the issue in dev.

Not sure, I use pi-Hole and it haven't manually added it there. https://github.com/anudeepND/whitelist/issues/56. It seems that they've added it to the whitelist, maybe you know someone in your network that uses pi-hole and can verify.

Re: Open-source alternatives to popular B2B tools

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Post by pratio »

arcturus17 wrote: post #11
pratio wrote: post #8

You guys are using cloudinary to server images it seems which is blocked by most adblocker lists because it's to serve video ads a lot. Assets seemed to be served under https://res.cloudinary.com/adaface so I can't unblock just your one company. Great effort though, seems similar to github awesome lists. I use https://github.com/topics/awesome to always get the latest ones

Damn, I just built a web app that uses Cloudinary for image management and storage… Is this widely known? I use an adblocker and never saw the issue in dev.

But as you can see here, Cloudinary supports serving ads, So it'll be present in the private lists that are being used by a lot of ad-blockers. https://cloudinary.com/documentation/video_player_ads_moneti...

Re: Open-source alternatives to popular B2B tools

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Post by pinky07 »

deeptichopra wrote: post #9
vsnf wrote: post #7

It would be helpful to list what you consider to be the primary commercial solutions in each category. A lot of these categories I am unfamilar with by name but would understand if I saw some concrete companies or products listed alongside them.

Yep absolutely! We already have that. For eg: https://www.btw.so/open-source-alternatives/slack-alternativ...

You mentioned Odoo in CRM, but Odoo has apps in a lot of extra categories (that are not yet listed): - ERP: https://odoo.com (alternative to Ms. Dynamics, SAP) - Website Builder: https://www.odoo.com/app/website (alternative to Wix, SquareSpace) - POS: https://www.odoo.com/app/point-of-sale-shop (alternative to VendHQ, LightSpeed) - Kanban & Project: https://www.odoo.com/app/project - Human Resources / HR: https://www.odoo.com/app/employees (alternative to SuccessFactors, BambooHR) - Manufacturing - MES: https://www.odoo.com/app/manufacturing - Invoicing: https://www.odoo.com/app/invoicing (alternative to bill.com)
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