Open Source Alternative To(opensourcealternative.to) |
Open Source Alternative To(opensourcealternative.to) |
While OSS InfluxDB is a great piece of software, we need HA and other features which are only available via their commercial version. You can administer a group of peoples vaults with 1Password, I don't think you can do that with Keepass.
I guess all I'm saying is that there is a time and a place for everything. And there's nothing wrong with paying people for good software (or how else would we make a buck).
> Verdaccio
> Open Source Alternative to npm
in lieu of https://github.com/npm
“Paid, supported, professional alternative to”
I would put mastodon as a competitor of Facebook, don't you?
Why is it being so heavily criticized on HN ( from what I saw whenever it comes up )?
At one point they misrepresented themselves as collecting donations for bloggers who a) had no relation with Brave and b) didn't want donations or monetisation of their content.
At another point it seemed like they were intercepting ads on pages and replacing them with their own ads. Not sure exactly what the truth of that situation is.
Yeah, tokenisation, BAT etc. HN is extremely sceptical about cryptocurrency, IMHO with very good reason.
As mentioned by another user - under the covers they inserted their own referral codes into links to online vendors.
All in all it's a sequence of dodgy decisions that tell me they put money above honesty.
For a group that's largely bet their fortunes on internet companies, it's kind of funny that anything crypto is so toxic here, but that's probably the reason.
The actual browser is under good technical stewardship from what I know. It's essentially not-evil Chrome with an optional crypto-for-ads monetization model, a crypto wallet, and some primitive default privacy and adblocking tools.
It suffers from the same technical deficiencies as Chrome (installing addons is harder than it should be, addon API is weak compared to firefox, Google controls the "store" for extensions), but I'd recommend it over any other Chromium-based browser.
Other problems that they'd had:
- were inserting referral tokens into the URL when visiting popular websites, so presumably brave was getting a lot of referral credit[1]. In particular it seems to be bad-faith to inject referral codes since Brave really isn't driving traffic to these sites, unless when you type "crypto" it autocompletes "binance.us".
- They've since stopped doing this, but previously tipping BAT to a website or creator meant users would lose that BAT with it basically being held in escrow until the website/creator did their own KYC and redeemed the tokens.[2]
0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27549826
1: https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/06/07/brave-browser-caugh...
2: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/01/13/brave-web-br...
The old (insecure) firefox extension api is long gone.
I'm not saying there couldn't be, but so far, the entire ecosystem is just burning gigawatts of energy to sell jpegs of monkeys.
Oh yeah, and it removes ads from web pages and then shows its own. I'm always surprised people aren't more offended by that.
I have taken some inspiration from AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brave) and I think I got it to compile all the way through once, but that's not nearly the same as how easy it is to build -- and then run -- Firefox every day
Edit: better wording
Just interested, as they announced they were discontinuing cryptocurrency donations in general a short while ago.
Maybe my definition of open-core is different than yours.
The platform itself is not even source available. I think it's a bit disingenuous in that case. At Windmill (https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill), we are actually building the OSS platform that you can self-host and that is an actual OSS alternative to ... pipedream.
Really great crowd-sourced recommendations with useful reviews.
Though while AlternativeTo allows filtering by open-source status, it doesn't do so by license.
Since AT is crowdsourced, perhaps instead of discussing yet another list of alternatives, fellow HNers could go upvote software that they already use. Though this does require registration, of course.
Recently released code under AGPL-3.(https://github.com/prithvi16/ossdatabase)
But I want to go beyond aggregation and add following things
- User reviews, ratings
- Researcherd guides comparing features in most common usecases
- Interviews with Opensource maintainers, founders.
- Being able to create collections like awesome lists
- Everything being user editable and basic karma system for accepted edits.
Edits: Formatting and added links.
I have noted and will add to roadmap. Score will be calculated differently for different categories of software. Like for Desktop apps and SAAS projects, metrics will be different. Will have to think through this.
> All Brave logos, marks and designations are trademarks or registered trademarks of Brave. All other trademarks mentioned in this website are the property of their respective owners. The trademarks and logos displayed on this website may not be used without the prior written consent of Brave or their respective owners. Portions, features and/or functionality of Brave’s products may be protected under Brave patent applications or patents.
https://ethical.net/resources/
https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/alternatives
https://opensourcesoftwaredirectory.com/
I think if alternativeto.net just adds a setting to only view FLOSS alternatives maybe this genre of websites would be threatened
https://www.privacyguides.org/
(Some history: the privacytoolsio website was created by the subreddit r/privacytoolsio. A while ago the founder was kicked out after being inactive for over a year, but that founder happened to own the website domain and refused to give it to the remaining moderators. The founder also started adding affiliate links into the privacytoolsio website. So the remaining mods decided to rebrand completely, creating a new sub r/privacyguides and a new website as well. You can read more here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/pnhn4a/rpriv...)
I understand apparently this is not how the page is supposed to be used - but isn't it how an average user would use a service named "opensourcealternative.to"? What am I missing?
But one of the alleged alternatives for Docs is Athens Research, which is totally unrelated; there's just a link to its "docs" in the description. These are not the docs you are looking for.
And again, "Excel" or "PowerPoint" return zero results. Same goes for "Photoshop".
"Windows" returns, among others (also completely unrelated): "Brave Browser" - because the description happens to mention that the browser works on Windows.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Remove the "author=dang" and you can see that it's not a sentiment rarely (ever?) expressed by anyone else.
Then they wouldn't be mod comments.
not a sentiment rarely (ever?) expressed by anyone else.
This is unsurprising given other people rarely if ever publicly moderate HN.
Grafana is listed as an New Relic alternative, but if you ever used New Relic to do application monitoring on a Python application I think you would be disappointed. There's a huge difference in being able to view and navigate collected metrics and then just having an agent collect everything and UI that will allow you to pin point exactly where your code is slow.
In theory the collective knowledge of all of these platforms could converge on a single data-source that's freely available to analyse in any way we see fit, but more often the knowledge is behind the platform and ends up gated behind a Pro or commercial edition and the crowd is left to rebuild it again on some other platform...
- no useful documentation aka read the code bro, it's open source
- "FIXME don't ever do this" comments all over the code base
- no update routine: download source of enterprise edition, patch your private repo, feed it in your CD/CI. I'm pretty sure vulnerabilities get patched quickly all over the world ;)
- weird design decisions like undocumented semantics for identifiers (variables, module names etc.)
- Python/JS/XML code living in the database (i.e. need the production DB to develop/test)
- performance
- addons needed for serious business use cases are not open source
- code quality of third party addons is a nightmare
Maybe this is still harmless compared to its competitors, I don't know...
Storing Python and JS.....WTF?
Planning to write more parts as and when I try more solutions :)
Redis has a simple (but extremely powerful) Pub/Sub implementation[1] that should get you going for a long time.
Postgres also have a simple notify API[2] you can mix it with your own tables and just "notify" that some changes were made (when people say you can do anything with postgres nowadays they are not joking).
You probably can also roll your own implementation in any ACID database. Just keep adding records to an event table and consume them in scheduled batches. Should be more than enough for non real-time applications.
[1]: https://redis.io/docs/manual/pubsub/ [2]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-notify.html
Interesting - I had just assumed everyone is doing MQTT or cloud pub/sub
It's ironic that this site is a closed-source SAAS platform too...
Basically, just use the old AlternativeTo instead.
I mean, unless you fancy an Ops team to run your error reporting. But generally speaking, unless you have extreme privacy concerns, the economics favor SaaS subscriptions.
Have you looked at alternatives to your site like AlternativeTo and LibHunt? Do you plan on using any of that data as well or perhaps even linking to pages on those relevant sites? Sorry for the unsolicited advice, but I feel like being able to take advantage of the work already done by those platforms in some way could be a big step towards setting you apart. Just saying as someone who uses/contributes to AlternativeTo a lot
> Are the alternatives simply listed in order by their GitHub stars?
No specific algorithm for now, but that is a good idea.
Yes, I have seeded the data from multiple open source projects for now. But I will also check how can I leverage APIs or maybe scraping to gather relevant data to this project. Libhunt and Saashub are under CC4 but not alternative.to I guess.
But if you're relying on that feature rather than just agreeing, training, and trust, then I'm also not sure that's the best way to go about it. I'd personally much rather be somewhere where the rule is flexible and can be left to the MR submitter to decide when it's important to have more eyes on a change.
There are plans in the future for some paid plan but it won't remove features, it is more on having longer retention on metadata, role based access, support, etc.
You can find more details here https://www.netdata.cloud/pricing/
It is ok to pay in the future for SSO.
My concern is not money at that moment, but the foot print on production system as data will be stored and queried next to prod with recently introduced anomaly advisor on top.
If you mean the paid registry thing that they sell, which allows you to keep track of your installations of Netdata on multiple servers, then no.
There is nothing paid, everything is free, both the agent and the cloud app. Do whatever you like with it. There is a pricing policy that will follow sometime in the future but everything that is free today seems that will remain free forever.