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Hey, community :)

I run a website that showcases the best open-source companies. Recently, I’ve added a new feature that filters self-hosted tools and presents them in a searchable format. Although there are other options available, like Awesome-Selfhosted, I found it difficult to find what I needed there, so I decided to display the information in a more digestible format.

You can check out the list here: https://openalternative.co/self-hosted

Let me know if there’s anything else I should add to the list.

Thanks!

  • Bluefruit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    10 days ago

    I love this idea, because I often have questions like this as I transition away from proprietary software to open source alternatives

    I think listing what software equivalents it might replace listed in the card.

    I do see its listed when you click on the info card in the main list, but having it be visible before that might be helpful.

    I know a lot of people won’t like the little ad cards when you do click on a software to review its page, but I think the way you implementted it is good. Its not intrusive and clearly states its an ad.

    Edit: removed bit about categories.

    • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      I do like the idea of adding the “this product replaces X, Y, or Z” in the info card without needing to click on it.

  • surph_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    9 days ago

    What self-hosted alternative would you recommend for document collaboration? Word processing docs, spreadsheets, pdf’s, etc.

    I was using Nextcloud, but it’s not been as straightforward for file-sharing as I’d like, multiple people can’t work on a document at once, and it doesn’t save changes consistently (especially with fillable PDF’s).

    • rjmalagon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      Onlyoffice + Nextcloud. Is a little complex to self host the Onlyoffice Document server (the backbone of Onlyoffice collaboration), but it works very nice for multi user document collaboration, it even works on federated instances when using same document server.

  • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    68·
    10 days ago

    Love the list, but scrolling through, the one liners don’t mean much for a lot of these.

    The descriptions are just too short and vague to even understand what a lot of them actually do.

    • piotrkulpinski@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      9 days ago

      Added longer description and major alternative when you hover over the cards. Hope that’ll make it easier to browse.

    • piotrkulpinski@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      22·
      10 days ago

      Noted! I have longer descriptions in the db, but didn’t want to bloat the listings. Will try with a longer description soon.

      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        10 days ago

        A “more” button after the one liner would be very nice. Or make the one-liner a link that gives a longer description.

        Thanks for the work. I’ve bookmarked it!

      • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        10 days ago

        It’s a tough balance, you don’t want a whole page for each one. Maybe if there was a clear list of tags so it’s easier to understand even what category they’re talking about?

        For example:
        Penpot
        Design freedom meets open-source collaboration

        I really don’t know what this product category even is. Is it for web layout? Is it a drawing program? Is it for CAD?

          • Caboose12000@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            10 days ago

            personally I love it when websites solve this problem with hover hints, theres something satisfying about seeing a paragraph of text on hover that just answers all my questions. not sure how that’d work for people viewing on mobile though

              • Caboose12000@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                9 days ago

                anytime! just remember as @Shimitar@feddit.it pointed out, these will be useless for tablet and mobile users, so you may still need an additional solution!

            • Shimitar@feddit.itEnglish
              3·
              9 days ago

              No please, hover links are just useless to tablet and mobile users, anybody without a mouse actually!

            • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
              4·
              10 days ago

              This is the solution. That way i can decide if i want to read more about one of them and then sinply open the dropdown.

  • reinar@distress.digitalEnglish
    21·
    10 days ago

    Appreciate the effort, but without categories it’s not going to sail too far.
    Right now it’s just a long list of everything that it’s out there, awesome-selfhosted is much more usable for looking up what you need.

    Also, did you join any kind of affiliate programs/partnerships for these “10% off” green boxes? If so, would be great to disclose it. Nothing bad with getting some cash, but community will just appreciate the honesty.

    • piotrkulpinski@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      There are some affiliate links on the website, but the discounted products are not affiliated. I just reached out to the owners asking for an exclusive discount for paid plans.

      There are categories on the website, but not directly on the list. But here is “full-text” search, so you could technically search by category or an alternative. Try “analytics” or “google analytics” for example.

  • piotrkulpinski@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    3·
    9 days ago

    Thank you all for the comments and the feedback! I’ve implemented most of the things reported. You can now filter the self-hosted tools by category directly in the filters. Tool cards should now show more info about the product on hover (longer description and the most popular alternative).

    If you see anything else to improve, let me know.

  • go $fsck yourself@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    10 days ago

    I think it would be important to include current version information on the cards. For example, Pocketbase is still very much in beta and they make breaking changes pretty frequently.

    • derek@infosec.pubEnglish
      4·
      10 days ago

      Near as I understand it: years ago some dumb engineering decisions were made, acknowledged, and corrected. Is there some recent scandal I’m out of the loop on?

  • piotrkulpinski@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    2·
    5 days ago

    UPDATE: I’ve added advanced search filters directly on the listing, so you can now filter self-hosted tools by their alternative, category, tech stack used and licence they’re released on 🔥

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15·
    10 days ago

    Never heard of 99% in that list.

    Also, Gitea should not be there. It is a corporate -owned open core project that was hostilely taken away from the community.