Alternative: A community software search engine

You are right! Alternative is similar to AlternativeTo and SaaSHub. We are mainly if you are not connected to the Alternative dashboard. In the offline version, the search results are presented as a list. Moreover, softwares are added by the community.

Nevertheless there are differences!

When using Alternative without sign in, we differ by :

- search filters that allow you to build your requirements

- a display of search results by similarity index

When using Alternative with sign in, we differ by :

- more advanced comparison tools

- more data in the software file

- a space to share your stacks and argue about about its

- a semi-automated filling of the form to add a software

These differences are the result of a vision oriented search engine more than data directory. We hope that with the craze that could be around this project we will build indexing robots specialized in the discovery and revalidation of data.

It seems ambitious but, we target to be more exhaustive than AlternativeTo and SaaSHub. That's why we combined crowdsourcing and robots.

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Re: Alternative: A community software search engine

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Post by D2man » Mon, Jun 14, 2021, 10:39 AM UTC

karsinkk wrote: post #5

Is it just me or is anyone else having a tough time trying to wade through all the jargon to figure out what this is actually about?

Sorry for that, I tried to be as clear as possible. May I help you ?

Can you precise which jargon ?

Re: Alternative: A community software search engine

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Post by laurent123456 » Mon, Jun 14, 2021, 10:41 AM UTC

karsinkk wrote: post #5

Is it just me or is anyone else having a tough time trying to wade through all the jargon to figure out what this is actually about?

It's alternativeto.com but with a few differences.

Re: Alternative: A community software search engine

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Post by laurent123456 » Mon, Jun 14, 2021, 10:49 AM UTC

D2man wrote: post #6

stanislavb wrote: post #3

I'm wondering whether this is better/different than AlternativeTo or SaaSHub.com?

You are right! Alternative is similar to AlternativeTo and SaaSHub. We are mainly if you are not connected to the Alternative dashboard. In the offline version, the search results are presented as a list. Moreover, softwares are added by the community. Nevertheless there are differences! When using Alternative without sign in, we differ by : - search filters that allow you to build your requirements - a display of se…

You explain what the website does not but so much what problem is being solved. I use alternativeto a lot, and never had an issue finding what I need. I usually type the name of an app related to what I need and browse the alternatives. Usually I'd also select a few filters, for example the operating system or open source.

At not point did I think "I can't do x or y, and if only there was a similarity index or robots I could". So you might have more features than alternativeto but why would anyone need them is the part that's missing.

Re: Alternative: A community software search engine

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Post by xanth » Mon, Jun 14, 2021, 11:27 AM UTC

laurent123456 wrote: post #8

karsinkk wrote: post #5

Is it just me or is anyone else having a tough time trying to wade through all the jargon to figure out what this is actually about?

It's alternativeto.com but with a few differences.

My first thought was there are now 15 competing standards, I hope at least this is semantic web or at least scrape friendly.