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Open-source alternatives to popular B2B tools

452 points by deeptichopra 5y ago

deeptichopra 5y ago
Hello! In an effort to support the open source community, we’ve curated 200+ open source alternatives to tools that businesses require in day-to-day operations.
- Robotbeat 5y ago
  I think freeCAD probably is a better fit for CAD software than Blender.
  - deeptichopra 5y ago
    Thanks for letting me know, adding freeCAD right away. :)
- markcartertm 5y ago
  Was surprised grafana is not listed?
  - deeptichopra 5y ago
    Grafana is here: https://www.btw.so/open-source-alternatives/observability-platform https://www.btw.so/open-source-alternatives/observability-pl... Hard to miss them!
- rpxio 5y ago
  It appears that your site uses Google Analytics instead of one of the open source analytics platforms you have on your list. Is there a reason for that?
vsnf 5y ago
It would be helpful to list what you consider to be the primary commercial solutions in each category. A lot of these categories I am unfamilar with by name but would understand if I saw some concrete companies or products listed alongside them.
- deeptichopra 5y ago
  Yep absolutely! We already have that. For eg: https://www.btw.so/open-source-alternatives/slack-alternatives https://www.btw.so/open-source-alternatives/slack-alternativ...
  - vsnf 5y ago
    Yeah, I noticed that actually. The search bar is pretty good at recognizing the principal competitors. But when I go to, say, https://www.btw.so/open-source-alternatives/api-documentation https://www.btw.so/open-source-alternatives/api-documentatio..., no where on that page does the word "Swagger" appear. Same story for https://www.btw.so/open-source-alternatives/business-communication https://www.btw.so/open-source-alternatives/business-communi... and Slack. It seems like you already have the data, so it would just be a matter of finding the right UI for it. Edit: Now that I look real closely, I see in a tiny box on each alternative what the each thing competes with. I guess that works. Kind of obscure, though.
  - pinky07 5y ago
    You mentioned Odoo in CRM, but Odoo has apps in a lot of extra categories (that are not yet listed): - ERP: https://odoo.com https://odoo.com (alternative to Ms. Dynamics, SAP) - Website Builder: https://www.odoo.com/app/website https://www.odoo.com/app/website (alternative to Wix, SquareSpace) - POS: https://www.odoo.com/app/point-of-sale-shop https://www.odoo.com/app/point-of-sale-shop (alternative to VendHQ, LightSpeed) - Kanban & Project: https://www.odoo.com/app/project https://www.odoo.com/app/project - Human Resources / HR: https://www.odoo.com/app/employees https://www.odoo.com/app/employees (alternative to SuccessFactors, BambooHR) - Manufacturing - MES: https://www.odoo.com/app/manufacturing https://www.odoo.com/app/manufacturing - Invoicing: https://www.odoo.com/app/invoicing https://www.odoo.com/app/invoicing (alternative to bill.com)
    - throwaway744678 5y ago
      Odoo (core) is indeed open-source, but some of the apps (modules) you mentioned are part of the "Enterprise" which require you to buy a licence. Disclaimer: happy (paying) Odoo customer!
pratio 5y ago
You guys are using cloudinary to server images it seems which is blocked by most adblocker lists because it's to serve video ads a lot. Assets seemed to be served under https://res.cloudinary.com/adaface https://res.cloudinary.com/adaface so I can't unblock just your one company. Great effort though, seems similar to github awesome lists. I use https://github.com/topics/awesome https://github.com/topics/awesome to always get the latest ones
- arcturus17 5y ago
  Damn, I just built a web app that uses Cloudinary for image management and storage… Is this widely known? I use an adblocker and never saw the issue in dev.
  - pratio 5y ago
    Not sure, I use pi-Hole and it haven't manually added it there. https://github.com/anudeepND/whitelist/issues/56 https://github.com/anudeepND/whitelist/issues/56. It seems that they've added it to the whitelist, maybe you know someone in your network that uses pi-hole and can verify.
  - pratio 5y ago
    But as you can see here, Cloudinary supports serving ads, So it'll be present in the private lists that are being used by a lot of ad-blockers. https://cloudinary.com/documentation/video_player_ads_monetization https://cloudinary.com/documentation/video_player_ads_moneti...
    - fnomnom 5y ago
      s3 is also used to deliver ads. so do you block *.amazonaws.com ?
      - pratio 5y ago
        No, like i said, I hadn’t explicitly blocked this one either, it was a part of the adblock list the I’m using. The example i gave also showed that they don’t have a unique subdomain that i can unblock while adcompany.amazonaws.com can be done without blocking all sites
antman 5y ago
Nice, is there a form we can submit others? Also, no code db: Seatable
- deeptichopra 5y ago
  That's a great idea- will add. Will also review Seatable. For now if anyone has a recommendation, please let me know here. We'll review and add.
robjan 5y ago
Is this curated based on experience or some metric?
parthvader 5y ago
Great list! A form to submit more alternatives should be useful!
- andreacavagna 5y ago
  making it open-source and submit pull-requests will be awesome, and sort of making sense with the purpose of the website
- deeptichopra 5y ago
  That's a great idea- will add. For now if you have a recommendation, let me know here!
Tajnymag 5y ago
Open Source Browser Alternative: Brave Really? No other browser comes to mind?
- pratio 5y ago
  Haha yes, I didn't notice that firefox and chromium aren't mentioned at all
  - deeptichopra 5y ago
    Yep, sorry. Made more sense to remove the browser category, so I've done that now.
    - koilke 5y ago
      How about Bitwarden for password manager?
      - deeptichopra 5y ago
        Will review and add, thanks!
artemonster 5y ago
Everytime I look into B2B software space (I am a complete outsider, btw), I see that here and there always pop up some new company, offering something similar to competitors and what can be stiched together using open source (and almost free, not counting the support) tools. How these companies thrive? Why customers keep buying new stuff, when there are solutions already to most of the business neeeds out there (and even free ones!). Is this still the case of idiot-managers doing decisions like "nobody was fired for buying IBM" (and now SAP, salesforce, <yourcompany>) or am I not seeing something? Genuine qustions, really interested.
- rozenmd 5y ago
  I built a website monitoring service (last I checked, 191 alternatives on AlternativeTo). Customers really really really don't want to have to run their own solution. They want to be able to pay someone to make the pain go away. (https://onlineornot.com https://onlineornot.com if you're curious)
  - TAForObvReasons 5y ago
    I personally feel that uptime monitoring, status pages and similar solutions should always involve a third party. You can run your own service, but you would have to trust your service to be working properly. And in the exact cases where uptime monitoring is relevant, you may end up facing issues with your own monitoring service.
  - kaloryfer 5y ago
    "Rated 5 stars by the founder, and his mates" that's so funny. ;)
- Irishsteve 5y ago
  Historically there has always been consultancies building 'bespoke' software for local companies. For example the CRM market usually had lots of local companies who built and maintained a CRM and would do add ons etc. for customers. Fast forward 20+ years later, that type of work is essentially the SAAS apps you see popping up. It's not a very capital intensive business to sustain so with a few thousand customers you could have a pretty healthy company and continue product development / grow your customer base. Why do people go for these new SAAS apps ? I've seen a few reasons 1) Pricing is somehow better 2) Integration and or support is more personal so the customer (usually a business stakeholder) prefers it. 3) Some specific feature exists that is important to the customer i.e ease of deletion for GDPR requests 4) CTO / CIO / Techie prefers it. Why I've seen people not go with the open source alternatives is the same oul reason. Focus. If you've less than 30 people at your org, unless one of those tools has a specific team covering that area - it will just split focus and end up in a suboptimal setup and create pain points in terms of support. Examples that come to mind, we used open source snowplow analytics because we had a data platform team that supported it and ran it full time. There was no cost with regards to the software, but certainly was with head-count to maintain, and evolve. We used external newsletter services to inform customers about updates etc. in the product. We went with an external paid service because this didn't tie directly into a specific team and for 100 - 500 euro a month we got what probably would have cost 0.3 - 1.0 full time head count to keep a minimal service up and running (Which meant -0.3 to -1.0 headcount working on important things for the company).
thunderbong 5y ago
No Kanboard under 'Project Management. Or Tiddlywiki. Actually, no wiki software at all. Also, is this really B2B? Are browsers B2B softwares?
pbreit 5y ago
An exhaustive list is totally useless. The question is the handful of options that are credibly viable.
- deeptichopra 5y ago
  We've narrowed it down to just the top 2-3 options in each category. :)
meepybub 5y ago
FYI, the github link on each product page does not work. Also, it would be a useful feature to see the license each product has without having to go to it's github and scroll down.
- deeptichopra 5y ago
  Thanks for pointing this out- fixed the Github link issue. It shows the license under the "Github Activity" section.
  - meepybub 5y ago
    It could be another bug but i am not seeing the license under github activity, i'm on Brave and i am signed into github if that helps.
rapnie 5y ago
It looks like this startup is going to monetize findability, ease-of-installation, and hosting of quality open-source alternatives. Would be very cool if either some of the revenue of their service would go to the projects they offer this way, or if they at least drew prominent attention to how we might offer that to the project ourselves. In other words, offer commercial services that are truly in support of (F)OSS and not just benefiting and exploiting it (tragedy of the commons, etc.)
zajkowskimarcin 5y ago
Great list, thanks for sharing and gathering! As people said, form to add suggestions would be great. E.g. we're using Umbraco CMS (https://umbraco.com/products/umbraco-cms/ https://umbraco.com/products/umbraco-cms/) for most of our content managed enterprise solutions and would be awesome to see it listed there. Many many more in my head as well, so might help curating it and growing it for the good of us all looking for OSS alternatives!
- deeptichopra 5y ago
  Added Umbraco. Let me know if you have other suggestions!
soumyadeb 5y ago
A correction. RudderStack is an open source project/product and is an alternative to Segment. The website lists other marketing analytics products as alternative to RudderStack. They are related but not exactly same. (Founder of RudderStack here)
- deeptichopra 5y ago
  Yikes, my bad. Have listed RudderStack as open-source now. :)
jld89 5y ago
What about OpenBravo ?
kevinak 5y ago
An open-source alternative to Retool is Budibase - https://www.budibase.com/ https://www.budibase.com/ Edit: It was apparently already on there.
- foxbee 5y ago
  well, the Github link is broken. For viewers, it should point to: https://github.com/Budibase/budibase https://github.com/Budibase/budibase
  - deeptichopra 5y ago
    Thanks for pointing this out. Fixed!
Wronnay 5y ago
"Open Source Alternatives to Kanboard" -> Kanboard is a open source software, so that title doesn't make sense
- deeptichopra 5y ago
  Fixed!
KronisLV 5y ago
Some additional ideas: - Kanban - Kanboard ( https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard ) - Analytics - Matomo ( https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo ) - Content Management System - Grav ( https://github.com/getgrav/grav ) - Knowledge Base - BookStack ( https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack ) - Browser - Firefox ( https://github.com/mozilla ) - Image Manipulation ( https://github.com/GNOME/gimp ) - Observability Platform - Zabbix ( https://github.com/zabbix/zabbix ) - Password manager - KeePassX ( https://github.com/keepassx/keepassx )
- deeptichopra 5y ago
  Great list, thanks so much. Will review these and add!
- executesorder66 5y ago
  N.B. KeePassX hasn't been maintained since 2016! Use https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc instead. (They are compatible)
  - KronisLV 5y ago
    Fair point! I actually still use KeePass on some machines that are stuck on Windows, as well as run the original KeePass on Linux ones as well thanks to Mono (IIRC).
- npteljes 5y ago
  Bitwarden for password manager also. They specifically endorse enterprise usage. https://bitwarden.com/ https://bitwarden.com/
  - andrewzah 5y ago
    For selfhosting bitwarden, I recommend vaultwarden [0] (previously known as bitwarden_rs). [0]: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
- g19fanatic 5y ago
dgb23 5y ago
Under Content Management System there is OctoberCMS listed. Their LICENCE.md: https://github.com/octobercms/october/blob/develop/LICENSE.md https://github.com/octobercms/october/blob/develop/LICENSE.m... Not sure if this counts as open source. Around here there is a stricter notion of what open source means I think.
- deeptichopra 5y ago
  Thanks! Removed October CMS, and added https://github.com/wintercms/winter https://github.com/wintercms/winter
tompazourek 5y ago
FullCalendar is a GUI component, not really a proper alternative to something like Google Calendar. These are different things IMHO... But anyway, nice list, thanks for sharing.
SylvieLorxu 5y ago
Why is Matomo not in the Analytics category but listed below "Check out alternatives to popular commercial products"? Matomo is Open Source too? (Also, "Open Source" is not the opposite of "commercial")
- deeptichopra 5y ago
  Fixed this, thanks!
edhelas 5y ago
Regarding the IM/Slack alternatives you can maybe consider adding Movim ( https://movim.eu/ https://movim.eu/ ). Fully based on XMPP with plenty of features already packed in. It can easily be deployed on a simple web-server. PS: I'm the author and maintainer
dragosbulugean 5y ago
GitBook is not open source.
- deeptichopra 5y ago
  Thanks for pointing out, fixed!
npteljes 5y ago
Would be nice if the icons showed the product name on hover. Also, no MS Office / Google Drive alternatives? ONLYOFFICE works great in this space, with MS Office format compatibility, online editors, file sharing, nice integrations with Nextcloud and a myriad of other cloud solutions. https://www.onlyoffice.com/ https://www.onlyoffice.com/ For MFA, as for example a Yubikey alternative, Solokeys could work. https://solokeys.com/pages/enterprise-orders https://solokeys.com/pages/enterprise-orders
dinedal 5y ago
It's weird that Node-RED is listed as closed source software? But it is open source? https://github.com/node-red https://github.com/node-red
- deeptichopra 5y ago
  Thanks for pointing this out, fixed!
  - majormjr 5y ago
    It's also marked as not self hostable despite the comment above mentioning it running on Raspberry Pis.
typhonius 5y ago
You're missing Drupal, one of the largest open-source CMS' in the world.
- Terretta 5y ago
  Also TextPattern, oldie-but-goodie: CMS: https://textpattern.com/about/ https://textpattern.com/about/ Plugins: https://textpattern.org/ https://textpattern.org/ This site’s curation is … eccentric. :-)
skyfaller 5y ago
Some of these "open source" options are not really open source. - Outline uses the Business Source License 1.1, which eventually becomes open source (Apache 2) four years after each release. https://github.com/outline/outline/blob/main/LICENSE https://github.com/outline/outline/blob/main/LICENSE - Invoice Ninja uses Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2), which allows you to host it for yourself, but not for other people. https://github.com/invoiceninja/invoiceninja/blob/master/LICENSE https://github.com/invoiceninja/invoiceninja/blob/master/LIC... Source code available is not the same thing as open source.
- xtracto 5y ago
  Right, they should also note the "freemium" ones like Odoo, which has a botchered "Open Source" version vs the Enterprise version.
- curtis3389 5y ago
  I'm actually not sure if the 2 cases you cited actually violate the OSI's Open Source Definition: https://opensource.org/docs/osd https://opensource.org/docs/osd Anyone care to clarify? I know that open source != free software, and you can read about that on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source#Open_source_as_a_term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source#Open_source_as_a_t...
  - yellowapple 5y ago
    IIRC the OSI has outright stated that the Elastic License ain't open source. Not sure about that first one, though.
- janober 5y ago
  Also https://n8n.io https://n8n.io is not OSI approved open-source, it is rather https://faircode.io https://faircode.io licensed instead. Disclaimer: I am the founder
mhd 5y ago
I bet you could put "Libreoffice Calc" into most of those categories…
miguelmichelson 5y ago
https://chaskiq.io https://chaskiq.io - a feature complete alternative to Intercom ( https://github.com/chaskiq/chaskiq https://github.com/chaskiq/chaskiq )
timkofu 5y ago
Possible to make the list a GitHub project that we can contribute to?
pea 5y ago
One that I've been massively enjoying as an alternative to the Amplitude/Mixpanel/Fullstory stack recently is PostHog. You can write your own plugins in JS, which is great for automating things other platforms, and it offers a bunch of cool features which the others charge for as premium addons (backup to warehouse, CRM integration etc.)
jpswade 5y ago
Alternativeto.net
manifoldgeo 5y ago
I'm surprised that CiviCRM [1] is not listed in the "Open Source CRM Alternatives" section. I think it should be. [1] https://civicrm.org/ https://civicrm.org/
datagram 5y ago
Under Computer-Aided Design, I'd might be worth adding OpenSCAD? https://openscad.org/ https://openscad.org/ I'm not sure how it stacks up in the business space, but as a programmer that has to do some 3D modeling from time to time it's been great.
- neop1x 5y ago
  Maybe also KiCAD but that is more ECAD/EDA. Great tool though!

452 points by deeptichopra 5y ago

Hello! In an effort to support the open source community, we’ve curated 200+ open source alternatives to tools that businesses require in day-to-day operations.

Robotbeat 5y ago
I think freeCAD probably is a better fit for CAD software than Blender.
- deeptichopra 5y ago
  Thanks for letting me know, adding freeCAD right away. :)
markcartertm 5y ago
Was surprised grafana is not listed?
- deeptichopra 5y ago
  Grafana is here: https://www.btw.so/open-source-alternatives/observability-platform https://www.btw.so/open-source-alternatives/observability-pl... Hard to miss them!
rpxio 5y ago
It appears that your site uses Google Analytics instead of one of the open source analytics platforms you have on your list. Is there a reason for that?

vsnf 5y ago

It would be helpful to list what you consider to be the primary commercial solutions in each category. A lot of these categories I am unfamilar with by name but would understand if I saw some concrete companies or products listed alongside them.

deeptichopra 5y ago
Yep absolutely! We already have that. For eg: https://www.btw.so/open-source-alternatives/slack-alternatives https://www.btw.so/open-source-alternatives/slack-alternativ...
- vsnf 5y ago
  Yeah, I noticed that actually. The search bar is pretty good at recognizing the principal competitors. But when I go to, say, https://www.btw.so/open-source-alternatives/api-documentation https://www.btw.so/open-source-alternatives/api-documentatio..., no where on that page does the word "Swagger" appear. Same story for https://www.btw.so/open-source-alternatives/business-communication https://www.btw.so/open-source-alternatives/business-communi... and Slack. It seems like you already have the data, so it would just be a matter of finding the right UI for it. Edit: Now that I look real closely, I see in a tiny box on each alternative what the each thing competes with. I guess that works. Kind of obscure, though.
- pinky07 5y ago
  You mentioned Odoo in CRM, but Odoo has apps in a lot of extra categories (that are not yet listed): - ERP: https://odoo.com https://odoo.com (alternative to Ms. Dynamics, SAP) - Website Builder: https://www.odoo.com/app/website https://www.odoo.com/app/website (alternative to Wix, SquareSpace) - POS: https://www.odoo.com/app/point-of-sale-shop https://www.odoo.com/app/point-of-sale-shop (alternative to VendHQ, LightSpeed) - Kanban & Project: https://www.odoo.com/app/project https://www.odoo.com/app/project - Human Resources / HR: https://www.odoo.com/app/employees https://www.odoo.com/app/employees (alternative to SuccessFactors, BambooHR) - Manufacturing - MES: https://www.odoo.com/app/manufacturing https://www.odoo.com/app/manufacturing - Invoicing: https://www.odoo.com/app/invoicing https://www.odoo.com/app/invoicing (alternative to bill.com)
  - throwaway744678 5y ago
    Odoo (core) is indeed open-source, but some of the apps (modules) you mentioned are part of the "Enterprise" which require you to buy a licence. Disclaimer: happy (paying) Odoo customer!

pratio 5y ago

You guys are using cloudinary to server images it seems which is blocked by most adblocker lists because it's to serve video ads a lot. Assets seemed to be served under https://res.cloudinary.com/adaface https://res.cloudinary.com/adaface so I can't unblock just your one company. Great effort though, seems similar to github awesome lists. I use https://github.com/topics/awesome https://github.com/topics/awesome to always get the latest ones

arcturus17 5y ago
Damn, I just built a web app that uses Cloudinary for image management and storage… Is this widely known? I use an adblocker and never saw the issue in dev.
- pratio 5y ago
  Not sure, I use pi-Hole and it haven't manually added it there. https://github.com/anudeepND/whitelist/issues/56 https://github.com/anudeepND/whitelist/issues/56. It seems that they've added it to the whitelist, maybe you know someone in your network that uses pi-hole and can verify.
- pratio 5y ago
  But as you can see here, Cloudinary supports serving ads, So it'll be present in the private lists that are being used by a lot of ad-blockers. https://cloudinary.com/documentation/video_player_ads_monetization https://cloudinary.com/documentation/video_player_ads_moneti...
  - fnomnom 5y ago
    s3 is also used to deliver ads. so do you block *.amazonaws.com ?
    - pratio 5y ago
      No, like i said, I hadn’t explicitly blocked this one either, it was a part of the adblock list the I’m using. The example i gave also showed that they don’t have a unique subdomain that i can unblock while adcompany.amazonaws.com can be done without blocking all sites

antman 5y ago

Nice, is there a form we can submit others? Also, no code db: Seatable

deeptichopra 5y ago
That's a great idea- will add. Will also review Seatable. For now if anyone has a recommendation, please let me know here. We'll review and add.

robjan 5y ago

Is this curated based on experience or some metric?

parthvader 5y ago

Great list! A form to submit more alternatives should be useful!

andreacavagna 5y ago
making it open-source and submit pull-requests will be awesome, and sort of making sense with the purpose of the website
deeptichopra 5y ago
That's a great idea- will add. For now if you have a recommendation, let me know here!

Tajnymag 5y ago

Open Source Browser Alternative: Brave Really? No other browser comes to mind?

pratio 5y ago
Haha yes, I didn't notice that firefox and chromium aren't mentioned at all
- deeptichopra 5y ago
  Yep, sorry. Made more sense to remove the browser category, so I've done that now.
  - koilke 5y ago
    How about Bitwarden for password manager?
    - deeptichopra 5y ago
      Will review and add, thanks!

artemonster 5y ago

Everytime I look into B2B software space (I am a complete outsider, btw), I see that here and there always pop up some new company, offering something similar to competitors and what can be stiched together using open source (and almost free, not counting the support) tools. How these companies thrive? Why customers keep buying new stuff, when there are solutions already to most of the business neeeds out there (and even free ones!). Is this still the case of idiot-managers doing decisions like "nobody was fired for buying IBM" (and now SAP, salesforce, <yourcompany>) or am I not seeing something? Genuine qustions, really interested.

rozenmd 5y ago
I built a website monitoring service (last I checked, 191 alternatives on AlternativeTo). Customers really really really don't want to have to run their own solution. They want to be able to pay someone to make the pain go away. (https://onlineornot.com https://onlineornot.com if you're curious)
- TAForObvReasons 5y ago
  I personally feel that uptime monitoring, status pages and similar solutions should always involve a third party. You can run your own service, but you would have to trust your service to be working properly. And in the exact cases where uptime monitoring is relevant, you may end up facing issues with your own monitoring service.
- kaloryfer 5y ago
  "Rated 5 stars by the founder, and his mates" that's so funny. ;)
Irishsteve 5y ago
Historically there has always been consultancies building 'bespoke' software for local companies. For example the CRM market usually had lots of local companies who built and maintained a CRM and would do add ons etc. for customers. Fast forward 20+ years later, that type of work is essentially the SAAS apps you see popping up. It's not a very capital intensive business to sustain so with a few thousand customers you could have a pretty healthy company and continue product development / grow your customer base. Why do people go for these new SAAS apps ? I've seen a few reasons 1) Pricing is somehow better 2) Integration and or support is more personal so the customer (usually a business stakeholder) prefers it. 3) Some specific feature exists that is important to the customer i.e ease of deletion for GDPR requests 4) CTO / CIO / Techie prefers it. Why I've seen people not go with the open source alternatives is the same oul reason. Focus. If you've less than 30 people at your org, unless one of those tools has a specific team covering that area - it will just split focus and end up in a suboptimal setup and create pain points in terms of support. Examples that come to mind, we used open source snowplow analytics because we had a data platform team that supported it and ran it full time. There was no cost with regards to the software, but certainly was with head-count to maintain, and evolve. We used external newsletter services to inform customers about updates etc. in the product. We went with an external paid service because this didn't tie directly into a specific team and for 100 - 500 euro a month we got what probably would have cost 0.3 - 1.0 full time head count to keep a minimal service up and running (Which meant -0.3 to -1.0 headcount working on important things for the company).

thunderbong 5y ago

No Kanboard under 'Project Management. Or Tiddlywiki. Actually, no wiki software at all. Also, is this really B2B? Are browsers B2B softwares?

pbreit 5y ago

An exhaustive list is totally useless. The question is the handful of options that are credibly viable.

deeptichopra 5y ago
We've narrowed it down to just the top 2-3 options in each category. :)

meepybub 5y ago

FYI, the github link on each product page does not work. Also, it would be a useful feature to see the license each product has without having to go to it's github and scroll down.

deeptichopra 5y ago
Thanks for pointing this out- fixed the Github link issue. It shows the license under the "Github Activity" section.
- meepybub 5y ago
  It could be another bug but i am not seeing the license under github activity, i'm on Brave and i am signed into github if that helps.

rapnie 5y ago

It looks like this startup is going to monetize findability, ease-of-installation, and hosting of quality open-source alternatives. Would be very cool if either some of the revenue of their service would go to the projects they offer this way, or if they at least drew prominent attention to how we might offer that to the project ourselves. In other words, offer commercial services that are truly in support of (F)OSS and not just benefiting and exploiting it (tragedy of the commons, etc.)

zajkowskimarcin 5y ago

Great list, thanks for sharing and gathering! As people said, form to add suggestions would be great. E.g. we're using Umbraco CMS (https://umbraco.com/products/umbraco-cms/ https://umbraco.com/products/umbraco-cms/) for most of our content managed enterprise solutions and would be awesome to see it listed there. Many many more in my head as well, so might help curating it and growing it for the good of us all looking for OSS alternatives!

deeptichopra 5y ago
Added Umbraco. Let me know if you have other suggestions!

soumyadeb 5y ago

A correction. RudderStack is an open source project/product and is an alternative to Segment. The website lists other marketing analytics products as alternative to RudderStack. They are related but not exactly same. (Founder of RudderStack here)

deeptichopra 5y ago
Yikes, my bad. Have listed RudderStack as open-source now. :)

jld89 5y ago

What about OpenBravo ?

kevinak 5y ago

An open-source alternative to Retool is Budibase - https://www.budibase.com/ https://www.budibase.com/ Edit: It was apparently already on there.

foxbee 5y ago
well, the Github link is broken. For viewers, it should point to: https://github.com/Budibase/budibase https://github.com/Budibase/budibase
- deeptichopra 5y ago
  Thanks for pointing this out. Fixed!

Wronnay 5y ago

"Open Source Alternatives to Kanboard" -> Kanboard is a open source software, so that title doesn't make sense

deeptichopra 5y ago
Fixed!

KronisLV 5y ago

Some additional ideas: - Kanban - Kanboard ( https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard ) - Analytics - Matomo ( https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo ) - Content Management System - Grav ( https://github.com/getgrav/grav ) - Knowledge Base - BookStack ( https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack ) - Browser - Firefox ( https://github.com/mozilla ) - Image Manipulation ( https://github.com/GNOME/gimp ) - Observability Platform - Zabbix ( https://github.com/zabbix/zabbix ) - Password manager - KeePassX ( https://github.com/keepassx/keepassx )

deeptichopra 5y ago
Great list, thanks so much. Will review these and add!
executesorder66 5y ago
N.B. KeePassX hasn't been maintained since 2016! Use https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc instead. (They are compatible)
- KronisLV 5y ago
  Fair point! I actually still use KeePass on some machines that are stuck on Windows, as well as run the original KeePass on Linux ones as well thanks to Mono (IIRC).
npteljes 5y ago
Bitwarden for password manager also. They specifically endorse enterprise usage. https://bitwarden.com/ https://bitwarden.com/
- andrewzah 5y ago
  For selfhosting bitwarden, I recommend vaultwarden [0] (previously known as bitwarden_rs). [0]: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
g19fanatic 5y ago

dgb23 5y ago

Under Content Management System there is OctoberCMS listed. Their LICENCE.md: https://github.com/octobercms/october/blob/develop/LICENSE.md https://github.com/octobercms/october/blob/develop/LICENSE.m... Not sure if this counts as open source. Around here there is a stricter notion of what open source means I think.

deeptichopra 5y ago
Thanks! Removed October CMS, and added https://github.com/wintercms/winter https://github.com/wintercms/winter

tompazourek 5y ago

FullCalendar is a GUI component, not really a proper alternative to something like Google Calendar. These are different things IMHO... But anyway, nice list, thanks for sharing.

SylvieLorxu 5y ago

Why is Matomo not in the Analytics category but listed below "Check out alternatives to popular commercial products"? Matomo is Open Source too? (Also, "Open Source" is not the opposite of "commercial")

deeptichopra 5y ago
Fixed this, thanks!

edhelas 5y ago

Regarding the IM/Slack alternatives you can maybe consider adding Movim ( https://movim.eu/ https://movim.eu/ ). Fully based on XMPP with plenty of features already packed in. It can easily be deployed on a simple web-server. PS: I'm the author and maintainer

dragosbulugean 5y ago

GitBook is not open source.

deeptichopra 5y ago
Thanks for pointing out, fixed!

npteljes 5y ago

Would be nice if the icons showed the product name on hover. Also, no MS Office / Google Drive alternatives? ONLYOFFICE works great in this space, with MS Office format compatibility, online editors, file sharing, nice integrations with Nextcloud and a myriad of other cloud solutions. https://www.onlyoffice.com/ https://www.onlyoffice.com/ For MFA, as for example a Yubikey alternative, Solokeys could work. https://solokeys.com/pages/enterprise-orders https://solokeys.com/pages/enterprise-orders

dinedal 5y ago

It's weird that Node-RED is listed as closed source software? But it is open source? https://github.com/node-red https://github.com/node-red

deeptichopra 5y ago
Thanks for pointing this out, fixed!
- majormjr 5y ago
  It's also marked as not self hostable despite the comment above mentioning it running on Raspberry Pis.

typhonius 5y ago

You're missing Drupal, one of the largest open-source CMS' in the world.

Terretta 5y ago
Also TextPattern, oldie-but-goodie: CMS: https://textpattern.com/about/ https://textpattern.com/about/ Plugins: https://textpattern.org/ https://textpattern.org/ This site’s curation is … eccentric. :-)

skyfaller 5y ago

Some of these "open source" options are not really open source. - Outline uses the Business Source License 1.1, which eventually becomes open source (Apache 2) four years after each release. https://github.com/outline/outline/blob/main/LICENSE https://github.com/outline/outline/blob/main/LICENSE - Invoice Ninja uses Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2), which allows you to host it for yourself, but not for other people. https://github.com/invoiceninja/invoiceninja/blob/master/LICENSE https://github.com/invoiceninja/invoiceninja/blob/master/LIC... Source code available is not the same thing as open source.

xtracto 5y ago
Right, they should also note the "freemium" ones like Odoo, which has a botchered "Open Source" version vs the Enterprise version.
curtis3389 5y ago
I'm actually not sure if the 2 cases you cited actually violate the OSI's Open Source Definition: https://opensource.org/docs/osd https://opensource.org/docs/osd Anyone care to clarify? I know that open source != free software, and you can read about that on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source#Open_source_as_a_term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source#Open_source_as_a_t...
- yellowapple 5y ago
  IIRC the OSI has outright stated that the Elastic License ain't open source. Not sure about that first one, though.
janober 5y ago
Also https://n8n.io https://n8n.io is not OSI approved open-source, it is rather https://faircode.io https://faircode.io licensed instead. Disclaimer: I am the founder

mhd 5y ago

I bet you could put "Libreoffice Calc" into most of those categories…

miguelmichelson 5y ago

https://chaskiq.io https://chaskiq.io - a feature complete alternative to Intercom ( https://github.com/chaskiq/chaskiq https://github.com/chaskiq/chaskiq )

timkofu 5y ago

Possible to make the list a GitHub project that we can contribute to?

pea 5y ago

One that I've been massively enjoying as an alternative to the Amplitude/Mixpanel/Fullstory stack recently is PostHog. You can write your own plugins in JS, which is great for automating things other platforms, and it offers a bunch of cool features which the others charge for as premium addons (backup to warehouse, CRM integration etc.)

jpswade 5y ago

Alternativeto.net

manifoldgeo 5y ago

I'm surprised that CiviCRM [1] is not listed in the "Open Source CRM Alternatives" section. I think it should be. [1] https://civicrm.org/ https://civicrm.org/

datagram 5y ago

Under Computer-Aided Design, I'd might be worth adding OpenSCAD? https://openscad.org/ https://openscad.org/ I'm not sure how it stacks up in the business space, but as a programmer that has to do some 3D modeling from time to time it's been great.

neop1x 5y ago
Maybe also KiCAD but that is more ECAD/EDA. Great tool though!