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Hey, community :)

I run a website that showcases the best open-source companies. Recently, I’ve added a new feature that filters self-hosted tools and presents them in a searchable format. Although there are other options available, like Awesome-Selfhosted, I found it difficult to find what I needed there, so I decided to display the information in a more digestible format.

You can check out the list here: https://openalternative.co/self-hosted

Let me know if there’s anything else I should add to the list.

Thanks!

  • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    Love the list, but scrolling through, the one liners don’t mean much for a lot of these.

    The descriptions are just too short and vague to even understand what a lot of them actually do.

    • piotrkulpinski@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Noted! I have longer descriptions in the db, but didn’t want to bloat the listings. Will try with a longer description soon.

      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        A “more” button after the one liner would be very nice. Or make the one-liner a link that gives a longer description.

        Thanks for the work. I’ve bookmarked it!

      • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        It’s a tough balance, you don’t want a whole page for each one. Maybe if there was a clear list of tags so it’s easier to understand even what category they’re talking about?

        For example:
        Penpot
        Design freedom meets open-source collaboration

        I really don’t know what this product category even is. Is it for web layout? Is it a drawing program? Is it for CAD?

  • paequ2@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    One thing I would like to see is a way to distinguish which apps do Real™ Open Source vs fakie open source. For example, I see Joplin on there saying “Your secure, open-source note-taking companion”. I guess that’s technically true at this point in time, but they also force contributors to sign a CLA so they have the option to pull the rug later on. (Something which does happen.)

    They even say so explicitly:

    This is necessary so that if we ever want to change the license again we are able to do so

    — https://joplinapp.org/news/20221221-agpl/#what-does-it-change-for-developers

    And fine, if they want to do that it’s up to them. I’d just like a quick way to tell the difference between open source 😒 and Open Source 😄.

    simpsons

  • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    I wish more software wasn’t “hosted” these days.

    I miss app ass apps.

    Don’t mind me. I’m just feeling old.