Show HN: A Directory of Free, Open Source Alternatives to Popular Software

[syakirurahman]

Hi guys,

I want to share the recent project i developed. I built AlternateOSS, a directory of free, open source alternatives and competitors to popular software.

Currently, i have listed 200+ tools so far and organized them carefully based on their main functionalities. I ranked them based on its category relevancy and feature completeness.

Some technical details & features:

- fully static site built with Astro

- View Transition API for smooth navigation

- Instant/static search with Astro static endpoints

If you have an open source project that can be an alternative to popular software, let me know. I will list it on AlternateOSS for free :)

Thanks, have a nice day!

[Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe]

Nice but I'm surprised not to see anyone talking about awesome (https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted) which are lists of open source alternatives. It's in the form of github repositories

[senorsmile]

This is truly awesome.

[vouaobrasil]

Nice. A shout out to darktable, which I use for all my Raw development as a pro photographer. It's extra nice because I don't have to pay Adobe a cent.

[syakirurahman]

yes, Darktable is nice for pro photographer

[cobri]

Looks good. Thanks for making this.

Some features that would be nice to have: - a list of the categories - the user’s index page location persists after viewing a sub-page. When I clicked a product, then went back, it starts me at the top of the main page even if I had clicked to go further down the page originally.

[kseistrup]

It looks good.

It would be nice if ther site could remember that I've ticked “Open-source only”, so I don't have to re-tick it every time I visit a new category.

[syakirurahman]

I see. Thanks for the suggestion. I will consider it for next improvement

[steveharman]

Nice. How does one submit a suggestion? I'd like to propose Anytype as an alternative to Notion.

[NegativeLatency]

Nice!

However scrolling doesn’t work quite right for me on mobile, it stutters and pauses

[syakirurahman]

Its working fine for me. But whats your device?

Anyway thanks for reporting

[teddyh]

> If you have an open source project that can be an alternative to popular software

Open Source can not be popular?

[tankaiji]

Also alternativeto .net

[syakirurahman]

AlternativeTo.net is good. Its one of my source for AlternateOSS. But it's not specifically for open source, and we have different UI :D.