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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Adobe 😜
This!
Inkscape is a nice alternative for illustrator
And GIMP for photoshop
Notion. I love Notion but I would love to self-host it to have the control of my notes.
That would be so cool. I remember seeing once an open source Notion alternative but I forgot what it was called
Yeah there are a few but Notion is unbeatable. Outline could be a good alternative but it's designed for companies.
Skiff my open source over time
I remember seeing one, too. And found it: github.com/AppFlowy-IO/appflowy?re...
I just knew it was written in Rust and Flutter, so I found it pretty quickly. Is that what you meant?
Edit: Well, I see you already found it 😀😀😀
Check out anytype.io/. It's in closed alpha, but you are very much in the target audience if you care about a polished note-taking experience as well as open source and control of your data.
No it’s not that one but that one looks cool too!
It still in its early stage github.com/AppFlowy-IO/appflowy
That's the one! It's good to see open source alternative!
Amen to Notion. It was tough to figure out how to report a copyable code block in the APIs docs that needed updating-- no idea where to request a change. With open-source tools I just pay it forward by submitting quick fix PRs where I see them rather than having to figure out who to email, very specific flow and personal reason for wanting it to be open source lol, but makes for a good developer experience I think.
That’s true it’s definitely a big benefit with open source tools that you can just report an issue and even send in a quick fix with a PR rather than issues being lost in the mail
All of them?
Smart!
Navicat
+1. Would love something in the OSS space comparable to Navicat
Just got to know about Medusa on Aviyel. I think the G-suit stack should be open source. Would love to know how Google Engineers takes care of building awesome code for high scale.
Also heard good things about Affinity Designer. My issue is that these alternatives can be good but they are still not Adobe 😂 I wish Adobe products were not pay to win.
Google
What part of Google? Just Search has a lot of individual components, and they all require proprietary build/test/database tools
There often is an open source alternative to what people are describing here — but sometimes it's easier said than done to get out of an ecosystem, even if there are minimal true barriers.