Ask HN: What software should I rewrite as open source? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What software should I rewrite as open source?

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Post by janosdebugs » Mon, Sep 18, 2023, 9:46 AM UTC

Substance Painter. Blender's texture painting capabilities are rudimentary at best.

Re: Ask HN: What software should I rewrite as open source?

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Post by janosdebugs » Mon, Sep 18, 2023, 9:47 AM UTC

stop50 wrote: post #3

strongbond wrote: post #2

Unity

Isn't godot already an replacement?

Godot needs a whole lot of work to be a visble alternative even for a mid-sized team.

Re: Ask HN: What software should I rewrite as open source?

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Post by goku12 » Mon, Sep 18, 2023, 11:17 AM UTC

So many people wishing for VB6. While that wish makes sense, you should give Gambas [1] a try first. It may already have what you seek - or may be a trivial addition.

[1] https://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html

Re: Ask HN: What software should I rewrite as open source?

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Post by goku12 » Mon, Sep 18, 2023, 11:18 AM UTC

muzani wrote: post #19

Would love to see ride hailing apps in open source, since most of them are losing lots of money and may shut down.

This is a good wish. It's going to be challenging without a central authority to be fair to both riders and drivers.

Re: Ask HN: What software should I rewrite as open source?

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Post by cpach » Mon, Sep 18, 2023, 11:22 AM UTC

Paint Shop Pro. iDraw. Evernote. Hashicorp Vault.

Best of luck!

Re: Ask HN: What software should I rewrite as open source?

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Post by Morthor » Mon, Sep 18, 2023, 12:00 PM UTC

muzani wrote: post #19

Would love to see ride hailing apps in open source, since most of them are losing lots of money and may shut down.

That's really about the business model and not about the tech being OS, no?

Re: Ask HN: What software should I rewrite as open source?

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Post by vendiddy » Mon, Sep 18, 2023, 12:53 PM UTC

android521 wrote: post #14

visual basic but using react/react native or similar modern frameworks. Enable developers to drag and drop components but can also right click to edit the code seamlessly

Framer (https://www.framer.com/) website builder may be good inspiration here.

They have a decent model for visual editing and letting you drop down to React.

Re: Ask HN: What software should I rewrite as open source?

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Post by tikkun » Mon, Sep 18, 2023, 1:00 PM UTC

Google Docs, Airtable, Apple Notes, GPT Playground, a mail client, reddit, discord

Re: Ask HN: What software should I rewrite as open source?

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Post by RetroTechie » Mon, Sep 18, 2023, 1:21 PM UTC

janosdebugs wrote: post #22

stop50 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't godot already an replacement?

Godot needs a whole lot of work to be a visble alternative even for a mid-sized team.

> Godot needs a whole lot of work (..)

There you go!

Re: Ask HN: What software should I rewrite as open source?

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Post by muzani » Mon, Sep 18, 2023, 4:12 PM UTC

Morthor wrote: post #26

muzani wrote: post #19

Would love to see ride hailing apps in open source, since most of them are losing lots of money and may shut down.

That's really about the business model and not about the tech being OS, no?

It's that and more. The tech is a moat. The business model is another moat.

Part of the problem is the business model allows for some shady practices like selling $1 services for $0.80 to kill competitors (like the taxi industry and other startups in the same space). Then raising prices to $1.30 over 20 years.

I don't think it works though. It just ends up with everyone dead and us buying enshittified taxis at 2-3x the price later because nobody else has a ride sharing app.