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Is anyone building (open source?) G-Suite - I’m honestly tired of paying Google money and I think everyone needs independence.

dotcoma 4mo ago
Where and how will you host your email service, for example?
rgblambda 4mo ago
Something like nextcloud.com? It's appeared on HN a few times. Some European governments and municipalities have switched to it.
valanha 4mo ago
Nextcloud+self hosted email
pedro_caetano 4mo ago
Not exactly free as in free beer but Collabora, and their 'Collabora Online' suite fits your description. It's effectively online hosted libre office with a few extras.
brador 4mo ago
No one made the easy pickings of Facebook clone, Reddit clone or Twitter clone for insane profits. You really think someone will make a gsuite? The person making project X days are over. The energy and drive is extinguished from humanity. Ambition is all that’s left.
- andy_ppp 4mo ago
  These things go in cycles, we’ll be back - or potentially something better will come along.
- FinnKuhn 4mo ago
  Facebook made a Twitter (now X) clone (Threads) and has reportedly more users than X now [1]. They have also started a Reddit clone as well now (Forum)[2]. Not sure if that one will be a success as well though, as Reddit isn't loosing users like X is. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/18/threads-edges-out-x-in-daily-mobile-users-new-data-shows/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/18/threads-edges-out-x-in-dai... [2] https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/meta-quietly-launches-a-new-reddit-like-app-called-forum/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/meta-quietly-launches-a-ne...
  - brador 4mo ago
    Reddit was waiting for Digg to have an incident and milked it to billions. Why was there no project waiting for Reddit to have an incident? (It has had many).
_kb 4mo ago
https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr
vincnetas 4mo ago
to be clear is the "paying" part or "google" part a problem to you?
FinnKuhn 4mo ago
Yes, "Euro-Office" was launched this week. It is a European fork of "OPENOFFICE". It is open source and supported by Nextcloud, IONOS, Proton, Tuta and more.[1] I haven't tried it out, bu you can find the documentation on how to host it yourself here: https://euro-office.github.io/documentation/ https://euro-office.github.io/documentation/ A more mature alternative would is Nextcloud as it offers a lot more, but setup is reportedly more involved. It does appear to be available for enterprise customers as hosted version as well though: https://nextcloud.com/office/ https://nextcloud.com/office/ [1] https://github.com/Euro-Office https://github.com/Euro-Office

dotcoma 4mo ago

Where and how will you host your email service, for example?

rgblambda 4mo ago

Something like nextcloud.com? It's appeared on HN a few times. Some European governments and municipalities have switched to it.

valanha 4mo ago

Nextcloud+self hosted email

pedro_caetano 4mo ago

Not exactly free as in free beer but Collabora, and their 'Collabora Online' suite fits your description. It's effectively online hosted libre office with a few extras.

brador 4mo ago

No one made the easy pickings of Facebook clone, Reddit clone or Twitter clone for insane profits. You really think someone will make a gsuite? The person making project X days are over. The energy and drive is extinguished from humanity. Ambition is all that’s left.

andy_ppp 4mo ago
These things go in cycles, we’ll be back - or potentially something better will come along.
FinnKuhn 4mo ago
Facebook made a Twitter (now X) clone (Threads) and has reportedly more users than X now [1]. They have also started a Reddit clone as well now (Forum)[2]. Not sure if that one will be a success as well though, as Reddit isn't loosing users like X is. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/18/threads-edges-out-x-in-daily-mobile-users-new-data-shows/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/18/threads-edges-out-x-in-dai... [2] https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/meta-quietly-launches-a-new-reddit-like-app-called-forum/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/meta-quietly-launches-a-ne...
- brador 4mo ago
  Reddit was waiting for Digg to have an incident and milked it to billions. Why was there no project waiting for Reddit to have an incident? (It has had many).

_kb 4mo ago

https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr

vincnetas 4mo ago

to be clear is the "paying" part or "google" part a problem to you?

FinnKuhn 4mo ago

Yes, "Euro-Office" was launched this week. It is a European fork of "OPENOFFICE". It is open source and supported by Nextcloud, IONOS, Proton, Tuta and more.[1] I haven't tried it out, bu you can find the documentation on how to host it yourself here: https://euro-office.github.io/documentation/ https://euro-office.github.io/documentation/ A more mature alternative would is Nextcloud as it offers a lot more, but setup is reportedly more involved. It does appear to be available for enterprise customers as hosted version as well though: https://nextcloud.com/office/ https://nextcloud.com/office/ [1] https://github.com/Euro-Office https://github.com/Euro-Office