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24 alternatives to Code Shelter, a community of abandoned FOSS maintainers

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Code Shelter, a community of abandoned FOSS maintainers launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Fosshub▲79

   An open source for free and open source tools

   2015 · fosshub.com · its alternatives →

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   Hackers Unite▲9

   Slack based community for software engineers.

   2015 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Campfirefree▲84

   The shared workspace for humans and coding agents

   24d ago · boringinfra.company · its alternatives →

4. 4
   TextCraft▲66

   Slack as old-school MUD client

   2015 · textcraft.co · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Ideas Are Worthless – Everything Is Dying▲83

   Code that deploys automatically and who took a chance on us

   2016 · podcasts.apple.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Hello Tech Pros: GitHub's Anti-Harassment Tools▲61

   and the open source Codes of Conduct

   2016 · gadgetsprimer.com · its alternatives →

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   Frankly▲101

   A dashboard of issues and PRs across GitHub repositories.

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Code Mill▲85

   A marketplace for pull requests

   2016 · codemill.io · its alternatives →

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   RancherOS▲59

   A minimalist distribution of Linux

   2015 · rancher.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Add a License Please▲87

    The open source vigilante bot that is cleaning up Github.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    CodeSoap▲61

    Automated Github standards for teams

    2021 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    I built a platform for projects to find maintainers▲49

    A few days ago, someone I follow asked the community for help maintaining his side-project, 512kb.club. This got me thinking. There are loads of maintainers out there feeling burnt out, but they can't abandon their project since people are depending on the project to be maintained. In an effort to combat this, I built a website that lists projects looking for new maintainers. It's still quite empty and has some rough edges. Any feedback is very welcome!

    2022 · seeking-maintainers.net · its alternatives →

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    Monocle▲71

    HN-like Community for Tech and Startups (now open source)

    2013 · monocle.io · its alternatives →

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    Triage by Chodeberg▲75

    Reproduce user described bugs in clean sandbox environments

    3d ago · triage.chodeberg.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    The Changelog - CodeNewbie and Community with Saron Yitbarek▲57

    How to help more people discover software development

    2015 · changelog.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello Tech Pros: Cowboy Coding▲61

    The first dysfunction of a software team

    2016 · gadgetsprimer.com · its alternatives →

17. 17FF
    Fixbounty – Find security issues in open source projects▲8

    2021 · spatcher.io · its alternatives →

18. 18SC
    Slack Community for DevEx▲5

    2022 · devex-community.slack.com · its alternatives →

19. 19OA
    Online and open source low-code platform with live collaboration▲9

    2018 · icodebetter.com · its alternatives →

20. 20DI
    Devmag.io – A community for developers and technologists▲6

    2015 · devmag.io · its alternatives →

21. 21CH
    CodeSpread-Helping Developers and Clients Make the Most of Open Source▲5

    2022 · codespread.io · its alternatives →

22. 22CO
    Codebuy.org – A Digital Assets Marketplace▲7

    2023 · codebuy.org · its alternatives →

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    GitHub Issues & mental health▲5

    Maintaining an open-source project and the tolls it takes

    2016 · bumpers.fm · its alternatives →

24. 24AI
    “Anguish”: Invisible Programming Language and Invisible Data Theft▲8

    2016 · blogs.perl.org · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →