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How HN took it
4 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 23 critical, out of 34 comments about the project. Thread score -0.54.
Idea: 1 for, 8 againstExecution: 0 for, 7 againstDesign: 1 for, 4 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good layout and impressive work
From 1 comment
Impressive work here! Layout's nice & responsive. Now and then I like looking for alternatives to the apps I use...see if someone's built something better. Happy to add another…
blueferret on HN
Objections
Listed projects are SaaS or source-available, not truly open source
From 3 comments
During a quick scan of the catalog I found a few issues. Sentry isn't open source, even after their most recent license change. The Business Source License and variants are…
skwashd on HNLooks like it is full of VC funded “open” SaaS/tools that are often very hard to self host and the company doesn’t respond to contributions. Such lists should focus on projects…
osener on HNDrone is listed under CI. Drone hasn’t been truly “open source” in years. There’s an extremely limited open source core you have to compile yourself to use. Otherwise you have…
donatj on HN
Discontinued projects such as Atom are included
From 2 comments
Atom is 6th in the (default filter) list but it is no longer maintained since 1 year (minus six days). Not sure if this should be listed as a viable alternative option.
jenoer on HNAtom is on this list... You might not want to include discontinued projects on this sleep
JCharante on HN
Categories are confusing and duplicates exist
From 3 comments
It's not really clear to me how to use this. There are a lot of categories, but not any rhyme or reason to them that I can see. Some are languages. Others are platforms or use…
smeej on HNThe list has duplicates, like Plausible is in there twice.
KomoD on HNI think compiling lists of open source tools is always a nice idea, but there's some parts of this site that are a little confusing for me. What would be the open source…
tbm57 on HN
Requests
Add more tools and fix categories
From 2 comments
Nice start, but needs a fair bit of work...I immediately thought of ten or so editors that are FLOSS, are widely used, but were not listed, including Emacs, Geany, Kate, and…
vincent-manis on HNYeah I clicked C# expecting it to be about alternative software to use in a C# tool chain. But it's actually all just software that is written in C#. That would be useful if I…
squeaky-clean on HN
Allow community input to add projects
From 1 comment
This is a fantastic project. Thank you for your effort! From the comments here, I see one of the ways to improve it: currently, new projects are supposed to be added by their…
SergeAx on HN
Add filtering by multiple tags
From 1 comment
Would be useful to be able to filter by multiple concepts: Charts and Javascript.
cognomano on HN
Questions
Which open-source LLMs should be listed
From 1 comment
do you know good open source LLMs I can add?
johnrushx on HN
Alternatives named
Free-for.dev
From 1 comment
Was something wrong with https://free-for.dev ?
BaudouinVH on HN
Pikapods
From 1 comment
My search for finding alternatives in open-source ended with https://www.pikapods.com/ Their present list of supported OS softwares will solve for all use cases
constantinum on HN
Pulsar editor
From 1 comment
You may be thinking of Pulsar (<https://pulsar-edit.dev/>)?
tmtvl on HN