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Paying for software is stupid… 10 free and open-source SaaS replacements



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Remember, for every paid SaaS, there is a free open-source self-hosted alternative. Let’s take a look at 10 FOSS tools designed to replace popular tools like MS Office, Notion, Heroku, Vercel, Zoom, Adobe, and more.

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LibreOffice https://github.com/LibreOffice
Mattermost https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost
Nocodb https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb
Plane https://github.com/makeplane/plane
Appflowy https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy
Jitsi https://github.com/jitsi
ERPNext https://github.com/frappe/erpnext
Coolify https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify
Dokku https://github.com/dokku/dokku
Instant https://github.com/instantdb/instant

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34 thoughts on “Paying for software is stupid… 10 free and open-source SaaS replacements”

  1. I remember when the Russia-Ukraine war started, Slack just deleted all Russian users’ data with no way of restoring it, despite that our company still had a lot of money on the Slack account. We switched to self-hosted Mattermost, but it is painful. It requires a lot of money to develop and maintain, so SaaS isn’t that evil after all.

  2. LibreOffice is awesome, as long as you don’t actually use it. Still has compatibility issues with Microsoft Office, you don’t want that happening with your projects

  3. Open source products have free and paid versions per month, and the same is true for Closed source products. So if I am not interested in the source code to me as an end user there not much difference. Or am I missing something?

  4. Particularly if you are inexperienced, this video is very dangerous because you might consider it "knowledge". You should stop and THINK:
    – Why are you using Windows and not a Linux desktop? (NOTE: If you're using the latter, help is available for you. Call 555-MYPARENTSARESIBLINGSSOIUSEALINUXDESKTOPENVDOTCOM.)
    – Why are you using an iPhone or a Google-approved-and-"enhanced" variant of Android from Samsung, Xiaomi, etc. and not just a 100% AOSP-based phone?
    – Why are you using Chrome and not Chromium or some other open source variant?

    FOSS is REALLY not for everyone. Each piece of good FOSS software has very specific contexts where it's actually good and everywhere else it's a trap, often enough a deadly one. An experienced dev learns (often the hard way) how to evaluate FOSS and determine when it's useful. It's NOT easy and most of the FOSS in this video is VER VERY FAR from being the kind of smart substitute the video suggests it is.

  5. Yep adobe is a absolute gut punch.
    You wish you could get rid off it but when your a content creator its very hard to avoid.
    Linus covered that well a while back also sticking with adobe.

  6. I called Adobe to ask how much the early termination fee is (for the Acrobat Pro online). They definitely hide that info well. But charging for SaaS isn't all bad. You must realize that continuous development, enhancements, and support cost more than the $29.95 you paid for an app.

  7. Not at all.
    Paying for open source software is probably the best thing you could ever do. Do you want the developers to keep developing the project? Or start working on manifest 4?

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