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Open-source alternatives to popular SaaS tools (github.com/btw-so)
53 points by deeptichopra on May 24, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


I really like this!

It makes me a little sad about the greater state of software development. Each app cobbles together so much, is so it's own distinct entity.

It'd be so nice to have a more common framework to work within. I realize very much the strength of open source is it's diversity & I don't want a conquest, only one option. But every app here is so so different. They are all webapps with totally novel route structures & patterns. There is so little in common. I wish we had better ways to create higher level protocols & practices to let there be a little more uniformity.


Didn't we already have batteries included frameworks with stuff like Laravel? Nextjs and Remix are doing SSR and I'm here thinking isnt that what php did 20 years ago? I might be wrong about this but its an impression I'm getting the more I learn as a developer.


You can pave a narrow path but that's not what folks wanted either.

We need both freedom & framework. We had a lot more to explore & become, that the narrow path would not have brought us.

Just a personal bais but I think the ssr craze is reactionary & overblown. We need better front end framing & data architectures most of all.




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