There are many open sourced versions of SaaS products (like gitlab github, plausible google analytics). What is a SaaS solution that you would like to see an open source version for?
Ask HN: Which open source versions of SaaS products would you like to see?
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#2Hands down a solution equivalent to Jira.
I see so many devops hacking on top of Jira, it would be so much helpful if there was an open source, totally customizable, solution to manage tickets (as complete as Jira).
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#3A fully self-hosted alternative to GMail, Google Calendar, Google Photos, Google Keep and Google Drive (including the office suite apps), just as user-friendly and capable (in antispam, security, synchronization and so on).
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#4A fully self-hosted alternative to GMail, Google Calendar, Google Photos, Google Keep and Google Drive (including the office suite apps), just as user-friendly and capable (in antispam, security, synchronization and so on).
Nextcloud should satisfy all your needs I think.
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#5None of that office or bug tracking stuff is that interesting or important imho. There's plenty of alternatives that work well enough. The interesting stuff is the hardest. From Google services alone: language translation, voice transcription, maps/directions (open street map is only partway there and Osmand is almost unusable), and of course searching the entire web.
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#6The Ory [0] stuff seems pretty cool. But I have no use for it as of yet.
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#7None of that office or bug tracking stuff is that interesting or important imho. There's plenty of alternatives that work well enough. The interesting stuff is the hardest. From Google services alone: language translation, voice transcription, maps/directions (open street map is only partway there and Osmand is almost unusable), and of course searching the entire web.
osmand does a lot of things so it depends what you are trying to do with it really.
organic maps (which also uses openstreetmap) is a bit more straight forward and minimal and is what i usually recommend to most people
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#8Any SaaS product that uses a rent seeking marketplace to compensate for missing essential product features. Think Atlassian, Shopify, QuickBooks etc.
I was very happy to discover Medusa (https://www.medusajs.com) on HN recently, a pretty solid Shopify alternative.
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#9A fully self-hosted alternative to GMail, Google Calendar, Google Photos, Google Keep and Google Drive (including the office suite apps), just as user-friendly and capable (in antispam, security, synchronization and so on).
Do it and you have a customer on me mate
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#10PopSQL
Also, PDF readers on windows are very bad. Acrobat doesn't have dark mode and it feels heavy. Xodo crashes a lot. SumatraPDF is very light weight but lacks a lot of features and lacks dark mode too. If you read a lot at night, this would be very important to you. And I am not talking about the UI only, the PDF itself gets inverted. Xodo does that very well.