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Paying for software is stupid… 10 free and open-source SaaS replacements (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Remember, for every paid SaaS, there is a free open-source self-hosted alternative. Let's take a look at 10 FOSS tools designed to replace popular tools like MS Office, Notion, Heroku, Vercel, Zoom, Adobe, and more.

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LibreOffice

Mattermost

Nocodb

Plane

Appflowy

Jitsi

ERPNext

Coolify

Dokku

Instant

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Neither wins here. I cannot tell you how many libraries I have had to replace because FOSS devs move on. It’s probably greater than the number of products I’ve had to abandon for lack of support but I’m not sure what that is at a percentage level. In the DevOps world everything burns constantly, paid and free.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It wins in the sense that you still have access to the software and code, and you have the option to either hire someone new to maintain it or switch to something else. Closed source proprietary software only leaves you with the latter choice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That’s fair! I agree with that.