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Shahed Nasser for Medusa

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What Tool Do You Wish Was Open Source?

Open Source has been rising in popularity and open source alternatives have been heavily competing with enterprise solution. Open source solutions provide developers with so much flexibility to create amazing projects, and encourages building strong communities.

Medusa is one of the open source solutions that gives developers and merchants alike full control over their tech stack when building their ecommerce stores. Medusa's customization and extendable features and capabilities makes it a strong alternative for enterprise solutions like Shopify.

What tools do you wish were open source? And how do you think the community would benefit from making such tools open source?

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Real AI

I wish the protocol of all messaging applications was open source XMPP

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EECOLOR

I would love to have the Firebase Realtime Database as an open source solution. Some of our clients require their software to be hosted in this country.

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T "@tnir" N

GitHub. Would make it better user experience.

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Renan "Firehawk" Lazarotto

GitLab is there, also Gitea, which seems to be close to GitHub than GitLab is.

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T "@tnir" N

Do not think so.
Per GitLab, I have developed GitLab for seven years with the most contributions in the world, but I could not resolve UI/UX complaints completely contributors.gitlab.com/ or tnir.gitlab.io/bookmarks/gitlab/ .
Per Gitea, Gitea has a UI closer to the UI GitHub had years ago. Also Gitea is not a DevOps platform, but GitHub is (as well as GitLab has been).

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Kevin

Twitter

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Michael Tharrington

I gotta go with the DAW (digital audio workstation), Ableton Live.

I'm not a dev, but as a consumer, I feel like this tech would benefit so much from being opened up to the community!

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Mardeg

SpinRite.

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Felipe Santos

Steam

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Bhagya Kithmini

All Adobe Products🙃​

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Hossam Khalifa

Mindnode

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Hossam Khalifa

Miro