SAsaikatsg·Dec 8, 2024Submission
List of open-source startup alternatives to well-known SaaS products
2 points · Open discussionRunaCapital
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awesome-oss-alternatives
Awesome list of open-source startup alternatives to well-known SaaS products 🚀
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Awesome list of open-source startup alternatives to well-known SaaS products 🚀
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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.
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Observed mentions: 2022-01-24 08:39:17 UTC to 2024-12-08 06:27:55 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
9 sourcesI see that you said github repo, but my life experience has been that those "awesome" style repos are committed to once and then ignore all pull requests or issues going forward. Thus, I think the audience would be better served by AlternativeTo or one of its ilk, which offers a licensing filter on their lists (e.g. https://alternativeto.net/software/github/?license=opensourc... )
But, a quick search for alternative coughed up a few results, which exhibit the behavior I described https://github.com/RunaCapital/awesome-oss-alternatives#awes... https://github.com/btw-so/open-source-alternatives?tab=readm...
One may also find more via topic exploration, e.g. https://github.com/topics/alternatives
In Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?Awesome list of open-source startup alternatives to well-known SaaS products
2 points · Open discussionThe list of projects seems to be at least partially based on https://github.com/RunaCapital/awesome-oss-alternatives.
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