Remember, for every paid SaaS, there is a free open-source self-hosted alternative. Let's take a look at 10 FOSS tools designed to replace popular tools like MS Office, Notion, Heroku, Vercel, Zoom, Adobe, and more.

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⭐ Repos mentioned

LibreOffice

Mattermost

Nocodb

Plane

Appflowy

Jitsi

ERPNext

Coolify

Dokku

Instant

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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It wins in the sense that you still have access to the software and code, and you have the option to either hire someone new to maintain it or switch to something else. Closed source proprietary software only leaves you with the latter choice.

[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

That’s fair! I agree with that.