Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to The Tidelift Subscription
Pro developers get assurances. OSS maintainers get paid.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Tidelift Subscription launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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We strongly believe working on open source software should be a viable source of income for many more developers. Unfortunately, the following barriers limit the extent of open source funding: - Only a small fraction of open source projects are funded, and most money goes to a few notable projects. - Each project has to market is self to get significant funding. - Large corporate donations provide the bulk of the funding, making it unreliable and unattainable for many. - Finding and supporting each of your dependencies is a cumbersome task. Which ones, how much, and on which platforms? So we…
2022 · stackaid.us · its alternatives →
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Powerful tools for sustainable recurring revenue.
2024 · beehiiv.com · its alternatives →
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Bolt Charge▲136Streamlined subscription management, purpose-built for devs.
2025 · bolt.com · its alternatives →
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The index lists either companies that work on open-source products or those that heavily contribute to open-source. Either way, ideal for devs that want to keep an eye out for opportunities. Engineering teams can post for free. Open directory of available positions is here [0]. [0] https://github.com/fossfox-com/fossfox
2023 · fossfox.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We’re Ioannis & Zaf, building Algora.io to help open source projects reward their contributors & grow their communities. 1 min demo: https://twitter.com/algoraio/status/1641560954746839042 The problem: paid contributions in open source are scarce, low trust & high friction Our solution: we built an app that streamlines open source bounties on Github Our 1st customer was Remotion.dev (15.6k stars, Typescript/React) in November 2022, whose feedback helped us ship our Github app & iterate through our bounty workflow. To date, Remotion.dev has rewarded 17…
2023 · console.algora.io · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, Over the past few months we've been building Ringer, an Experts Marketplace focussed on Open Source Software. We want to help make Open Source more sustainable and believe that we can be a part of making that happen. We're approaching this from the perspective of the individual developer - if you contribute to OSS then you can register instantly with your GitHub account and list yourself to provide paid support, knowledge and help for the repositories that you contribute to. We only allow those who we can prove contribute to repositories to list themselves as experts, and show…
2022 · ringerhq.com · its alternatives →
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Streamline your subscription business and build your MRR
2023 · its alternatives →
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2019 · openteams.com · its alternatives →
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Distr is designed to help software engineers distribute and manage their applications or agents in customer-controlled or shared-responsibility environments. You only need a Docker Compose file or Helm chart—everything else for on-prem is handled by the platform. We’re are an open source dev tool company. Over the past couple of months, we’ve spoken with dozens of software companies to understand their challenges with on-prem deployments. We analyzed the internal tools they’ve built and the best practices from existing solutions, combining them into a prebuilt, Open Source solution that…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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