Curated list of 1000 open source alternatives to proprietary software
Details
- External ID
- 46933619
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- Curated list of 1000 open source alternatives to proprietary software
- Website domain
- opensrc.me
- Launched
- Feb. 8, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5316711590296496
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hey people! I have been compiling a database of opensource alternatives and I'm super proud of it so far. It serves as a searchable directory for high-quality opensource. After tons of hours I've managed to compile a database of 1000+ opensource software.I've seen other sites which have the same premise and all the GitHub Awesome Lists, but they lack in showing if the repo is active, abandoned, experimental, buggy/unstable, has a restrictive license or corporate influence like this does.Thanks for your time, if you have any recommendations for features/additions I'd love to hear.
Enrichment
- Theme
- git and repository workflow tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
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- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- curated list of open source alternatives to proprietary software
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a curated, searchable directory of open source software, which is a classic CRUD and search web application easily vibe-coded in days.
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Launched 102 days after the earliest competitor.
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