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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
    15·
    3 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
      6·
      3 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.

      • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 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?

          • Caboose12000@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            personally I love it when websites solve this problem with hover hints, theres something satisfying about seeing a paragraph of text on hover that just answers all my questions. not sure how that’d work for people viewing on mobile though

      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        3 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!

    • piotrkulpinski@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      Added longer description and major alternative when you hover over the cards. Hope that’ll make it easier to browse.

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    Maybe you wanna collaborate with selfh.st to complete each others list?

    Edit: Looked at the list. Good job on the design and content. Bookmarked it :)

    • piotrkulpinski@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      We’ve talked with Ethan (owner of selfh.st) and shared some insights, but I’d definitely be open to collaboration. I don’t think merging both sites is possible since we’re focusing on different topics, but maybe we can figure something out.

  • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 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.

    • Jimmycakes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      I mean this lemmy is for self hosting apps. Not sure what you were expecting to come across lol. If you don’t have a Nas or server or dedicated host computer you’re probably not gonna enjoy anything in this lemmy

  • piotrkulpinski@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    So sorry for all the errors! I got crazy traffic to the website and the database is not holding on as it should. Will have to upgrade the server very soon🫡

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Never heard of 99% in that list.

    Also, Gitea should not be there. It is a corporate -owned open core project that was hostilely taken away from the community.

      • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        There – of course – won’t be a singular official source stating “Hey guys, we’re open core now”. You need to put this together bit-by-bit.

        Here are some links for research

        • Official statement on the takeover
        • Gitea Enterprise/Gitea Cloud hiding features behind a cloud solution and a paywall which makes Gitea itself open-core
        • Open Letter to the new Gitea owners with a summary and a reply, signed by a lot of Gitea devs and FOSS scene people.
        • As @gratux@lemmy.blahaj.zone mentioned: A fork under the name Forgejo was done due to new Gitea owners did not care much about the concerns. (Started as asoft-fork but with 10.0 it became a hard fork.)
        • Gitea owners made it mandaroy to remove copyright headers and set the corporation as copyright holder. Here, here, and here
  • piotrkulpinski@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Thank you all for the comments and the feedback! I’ve implemented most of the things reported. You can now filter the self-hosted tools by category directly in the filters. Tool cards should now show more info about the product on hover (longer description and the most popular alternative).

    If you see anything else to improve, let me know.

  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Wow, that’s a really complete list. Thanks for sharing! I might check out Dokploy some time, it sounds interesting.

    • piotrkulpinski@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      You should check it for sure! I actually use it to deploy some of the services I need for running OpenAlternative.

  • piotrkulpinski@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    UPDATE: I’ve added advanced search filters directly on the listing, so you can now filter self-hosted tools by their alternative, category, tech stack used and licence they’re released on 🔥

  • surph_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    3 months ago

    What self-hosted alternative would you recommend for document collaboration? Word processing docs, spreadsheets, pdf’s, etc.

    I was using Nextcloud, but it’s not been as straightforward for file-sharing as I’d like, multiple people can’t work on a document at once, and it doesn’t save changes consistently (especially with fillable PDF’s).

    • rjmalagon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Onlyoffice + Nextcloud. Is a little complex to self host the Onlyoffice Document server (the backbone of Onlyoffice collaboration), but it works very nice for multi user document collaboration, it even works on federated instances when using same document server.

  • Bluefruit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    3 months ago

    I love this idea, because I often have questions like this as I transition away from proprietary software to open source alternatives

    I think listing what software equivalents it might replace listed in the card.

    I do see its listed when you click on the info card in the main list, but having it be visible before that might be helpful.

    I know a lot of people won’t like the little ad cards when you do click on a software to review its page, but I think the way you implementted it is good. Its not intrusive and clearly states its an ad.

    Edit: removed bit about categories.

    • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      I do like the idea of adding the “this product replaces X, Y, or Z” in the info card without needing to click on it.