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Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary software

Discover Open Source Alternatives to Popular Software – OpenAlternative

https://openalternative.co/

OpenAlternative is a platform that helps you find open source alternatives to popular software. We’ve curated some great open source alternatives to tools that your business requires in day-to-day operations.

Discover Open Source Alternatives to Popular Software – OpenAlternative

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Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary software

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16 comments

gomp

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Creepy tracking, less functionality than the old alternativeto.net (also less content, but of course content takes time so that's understandable), plus desperate-looking "enroll to our newsletter" and "advertise" pleads. Looks like a cheap attempt at making a couple bucks to me.

jaykay

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No search function (at least on mobile), so you have to go through the whole page and read everything to find something. There is no “alternative to” text. How should I know if some software can replace something? Page links at the bottom of the website?

I nearly started typing a name of software in the newsletter box to search. Didn’t even notice it’s a sign up thing

ace_garp

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alternativeto.net has some amazing content.

This list of fdroid apps is the best overview that I've found so far:

https://alternativeto.net/list/28655/the-ultimate-f-droid-setup/

gomp

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Great list, thanks!

Are you the author? Because I might have some additions to suggest. (one is Equate which combines a calculator with unit/currency conversion - I have not gone through the whole list)

ace_garp

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I'm not the author of the the list, I just recommend it when appropriate.

(c: I use and prefer Equate as my converter app too.

GolfNovemberUniform

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Wait tracking? Does it really have that?

gomp

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I meant web tracking: my ublock origin stopped cloudflareinsights.com, posthog.com and googletagmanager.com (which is most probably used to add more stuff - IDK for sure since I didn't try unblocking to see what it would do).

GolfNovemberUniform

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Hmm almost every website has some sort of tracking. Does it have ads though? I didn't see any

gomp

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almost every website has some sort of tracking

Yeah... and most send info to the same mega companies, which is why it's creepy :)

BTW: I'm 100% ok with a website collecting stats on which of their pages are more popular and even with profiling my session to see which pages correlate to which - I'm not ok with websites remembering me across sessions and definitely not ok with Google (and others) tracking my whole web history and using/selling it to show me shitty ads.

GolfNovemberUniform

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That's a very nice website and everything but listen I don't have time to scroll all of that amazing new apps. You're making me way too distracted with this one. Oh btw look there's a Google Analytics alternative. Let me write down its name real quick

fin

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There are several links at the bottom of the page which you might find helpful.