[rglullis]

Apologies in advance for the thread hijacking, but I wonder if there would be enough interest in a turn-key solution for a fully suite of open source SaaS alternatives, hosted in a European cloud (Hetzner and/or OVH).

The idea would be to take any existing commonly used service at a startup and set up the FOSS equivalent, unify them with SSO via OIDC and charge by the a flat rate based on the amount of resources.

I've already built something similar for social media platforms, so I think I would just have to expand my catalog to do it.

[sam-cop-vimes]

Yes absolutely. I would consider using it.

[rglullis]

Ok. That's good to know. If you don't mind some follow-up questions:

- What services are you/your company relying on and you'd like to switch to an open alternative?

- How much are you/your company spending on these services?

- What is the threshold of pain (retraining, missing features, known issues) would you/your company be willing to accept for solutions that are not 1:1 replacements for the current systems?

[sam-cop-vimes]

Off the top of my head.

Google Workspace (email / drive / docs / chat): $500 / month

Various cloud services: VPS / RDS ($1000+ / month)

Figma / Adobe: $100 / month

A bunch of other services where we spend less than $100/month.

How much pain: as long as a basic level of service exists, willing to take on pain just to not be completely dependent on US companies.

[rglullis]

So:

- Google Drive/Docs -> Nextcloud.

- Chat -> Matrix

- Email -> Some EU or Swiss-based email provider, I'd recommend Migadu

- Figma -> Penpot

I'd have to know a bit more about you mean by "various cloud services", but if you just mean "applications we run ourselves", it sounds more like a small consultancy project than a packaged product that can be offered.

In any case, I think I could help. Would you like to maybe send me an email? raphael (at) communick.com