umm, “mastodon is an open source alternative to Facebook “?
Yes? I would put mastodon as a competitor of Facebook, don't you?
Isn't it a lot closer to Twitter?
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#82Pipedream is listed as an OSS alternative to Integromat ... except it is just the automation that are open-sourced: https://www.opensourcealternative.to/project/Pipedream https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream The platform itself is not even source available. I think it's a bit disingenuous in that case. At Windmill ( https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill ), we are actually building the OSS platform that you ca…
Same with Netdata (DataDog alternative) where only the agent seems to be open-sourced (so is DataDog’s BTW). Seems like a bait-and-switch.
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#83A much better website is https://alternativeto.net Really great crowd-sourced recommendations with useful reviews. Though while AlternativeTo allows filtering by open-source status, it doesn't do so by license.
Yeah, AT managed to gather good non-spammy ratings somehow—even though I do sometimes suspect that certain high ratings are artificial, but those are isolated cases. The site also clearly prioritizes open-source software, raising it even among higher-rated proprietary apps.
Since AT is crowdsourced, perhaps instead of discussing yet another list of alternatives, fellow HNers could go upvote software that they already use. Though this does require registration, of course.
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#84Pipedream is listed as an OSS alternative to Integromat ... except it is just the automation that are open-sourced: https://www.opensourcealternative.to/project/Pipedream https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream The platform itself is not even source available. I think it's a bit disingenuous in that case. At Windmill ( https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill ), we are actually building the OSS platform that you ca…
Same with Netdata (DataDog alternative) where only the agent seems to be open-sourced (so is DataDog’s BTW). Seems like a bait-and-switch.
You are wrong. Netdata does have a paid hosted service, but you can self-host the whole thing.
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#85What do people use as an alternative to SQS? I've had Kafka mentioned a few times but that's way heavier/more complicated than I need. Just a simple queue is perfect, and SQS' API is gloriously simple.
Going simpler as possible: Redis has a simple (but extremely powerful) Pub/Sub implementation[1] that should get you going for a long time. Postgres also have a simple notify API[2] you can mix it with your own tables and just "notify" that some changes were made (when people say you can do anything with postgres nowadays they are not joking). You probably can also roll your own implementation in any ACID database. J…
Redis also has a Stream data type since version 5, which is designed exactly for this. No need to build something on top of lists anymore.
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#86The site looks like it was slapped together yesterday. Really light on navigation, in the bad way of me not being able to navigate almost anywhere. I can't actually search for an alternative to a thing that I already use or know, which is the whole premise of sites like these. Of which there are plenty.
Basically, just use the old AlternativeTo instead.
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#87Pipedream is listed as an OSS alternative to Integromat ... except it is just the automation that are open-sourced: https://www.opensourcealternative.to/project/Pipedream https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream The platform itself is not even source available. I think it's a bit disingenuous in that case. At Windmill ( https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill ), we are actually building the OSS platform that you ca…
Same with Netdata (DataDog alternative) where only the agent seems to be open-sourced (so is DataDog’s BTW). Seems like a bait-and-switch.
The Netdata Agent is open source and you can self host your whole setup if you want. If you don't like the work, or don't know how to put it up yourself, and want to run multiple nodes, setup parent-child relations for your whole infra you can do it with Netdata Cloud (closed source). But even still, it only collects metrics, there's no actions or other data besides metadata being collected. What exactly is bait-and-switch with this model?
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#88> "Discover 300+ popular open source alternatives to your proprietary SaaS"
It's ironic that this site is a closed-source SAAS platform too...
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#89So the site lists software licenses, type of code used, how many people watch it, how many forks there are, how many open issues there are ... but doesn't actually link to the project? What an odd design.
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#90This is a cool site, and I use a lot of these open source products. But let's not forget, when operating at scale, using a commercial version of these products becomes the right choice. While OSS InfluxDB is a great piece of software, we need HA and other features which are only available via their commercial version. You can administer a group of peoples vaults with 1Password, I don't think you can do that with Keep…
The right solution to that problem is to avoid open core. Instead, use products that are fully open source, so that even the "commercial" features are free.