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Erwan ROUSSEL
Erwan ROUSSEL

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What are your favorites open-source alternatives?

I am actually searching for open-source alternatives for the proprietary services that I often use. After brainstorming that's my non-exhaustive list (many of them come from the comments) :

Slack ➡️
Mattermost

Dropbox ➡️
Nextcloud
Owncloud
Bonus: Syncthing

Google Analytics ➡️
Matomo

Google Keep, Evernote ➡️
Paperwork
Joplin

Chrome ➡️
Firefox

Medium ➡️
Dev.to

Webstorm ➡️
Visual Studio Code
Atom
Bonus: Gitpod

Unity ➡️
Godot
Blender

Photoshop ➡️
Krita

Illustrator ➡️
Inkscape

Postman ➡️
Postwoman

Hubspot ➡️
Muatic

Disqus ➡️
Commento

LastPass ➡️
BitWarden
Keepass (offline)

Alexa/Google Home ➡️
Mycroft AI

Please give yours :)

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Tech2Blog.com

+1 for this article. Thanks for sharing.

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Hunter Drum

My favorite open source alternative is Newpipe to replace the regular youtube android app

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Dwarkanath Prabhu

Chrome -> Brave ref link | non-ref

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Pavan Yara • Edited
  • Team Chat Platforms (Discord, Slack) -> Riot.im (Matrix), Rocket.chat, keybase

  • File sharing -> Firefox Send

  • File Sync -> Syncthing (already mentioned in here), SparkleShare, git-annex

  • Password Manager -> Lesspass

  • Note taking -> Standard Notes, Joplin, Paperwork

  • Collaborative editing (Google Doc) -> Etherpad

  • Medium -> Ghost

  • Forum software -> Discourse

  • Project management -> taiga.io

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Ben Sinclair

I like to think of the proprietary options as alternatives :P

Also, there's software that exists which is both proprietary and open source, so I think that distinction is a little confusing here (e.g. getkirby.com/license)

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rehlert

I think that Taiga is a good alternative for Trello and maybe also for Jira.

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Mohammad Javad Ghasemy • Edited

blender is not a game engine now. :)

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Erwan ROUSSEL

That's why it is a bonus ^ ^

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Jared Cobb

Alexa/Google Home ➡️ Mycroft AI

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Erwan ROUSSEL

Added :)

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=david.l.woolfenden

Any good OSS reCaptcha alternatives?

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Erwan ROUSSEL

That would be interessant

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furious_turing

Dropbox ➡️ Owncloud

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Erwan ROUSSEL

Added ;)

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l2aelba

Hubspot ➡️
Muatic

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Erwan ROUSSEL

Let's add it to the list ;)

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codesharedot

Gitea is great

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Erwan ROUSSEL

I totally agree it's a great self-hosted git server.

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Enmanuel de la Nuez

The Free Software Foundation has a huge directory of software that complies with their definition of free. This collection in particular might be useful! It was made in response to the report on the US's PRISM program. There you will find alternative software for eedia publishing, remote storage, instant messaging, and more.

Do check out their other collections based on use or compatibility with certain file formats!

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Erwan ROUSSEL

Thanks that's exactly what I was searching for :)

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Liyas Thomas

Postman
Postwoman
Bonus: It's open source

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Erwan ROUSSEL

Let's add it to the list ;)

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Liyas Thomas • Edited

🛸👽⚡
This kinda support will make open source community great again!

Story behind Postwoman

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Deka

Thank you! I didn't know many of them. I'll add Bitwarden to the list too, and recently I started to use protonmail instead of gmail

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Erwan ROUSSEL

You're welcome ;)
Protonmail is a good option