Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to To Be Continuous - 12: The clash in OSS economics
Developers want $$ but everyone else wants free software...
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. To Be Continuous - 12: The clash in OSS economics launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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The supply and demand of software eating the world
2016 · its alternatives →
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2014 · stackshare.io · its alternatives →
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Because they AAAAARRRRRRHHHHHHH
2016 · its alternatives →
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Monoliths and microservices
2016 · its alternatives →
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Strategies and reflections on software engineering
2016 · its alternatives →
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Eric Fisher of CodeSchool
2016 · its alternatives →
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Llewellyn Falco on why paired programming is critical
2016 · its alternatives →
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On how software developers consume media
2016 · its alternatives →
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and the open source Codes of Conduct
2016 · its alternatives →
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Dmitri Saveliev of ServiceWhale
2016 · its alternatives →
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Edith and Paul discuss Gartner's Bimodal IT Model and more
2016 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, For years, my local development setup has been a fragile mess of tools that never quite played nicely together. On my mac, it was a constant battle with Homebrew services starting (or not starting) on boot, conflicting PHP and Node versions managed by `asdf` or `nvm`, and a collection of `docker-compose.yml` files that I'd copy-paste and tweak for every single project. The cognitive load was just too high. Setting up SSL was another chore involving `mkcert`. Sharing a quick demo with a colleague meant firing up ngrok. And if I wanted to run two projects that needed different versions…
Oct 2025 · servbay.com · its alternatives →
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I'm a VP of Engineering with 20 years in the field. I've been thinking deeply on why AI is breaking every engineering practice, and it led me to the conclusion that the Agile Manifesto's values need updating. The core argument: AI made producing software cheap, but understanding it is still expensive. The Manifesto optimizes for the former. This addendum shifts the emphasis toward the latter. Four updated values, three refined principles, with reasoning for each. Happy to discuss and defend any of it.
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 18OS
I got tired of collecting open source projects in my chrome bookmarks so I decided to compile a curated list of: - Recently active projects on GitHub - Mostly dev tools (but also productivity, analytics) - Projects which are "Alternative to X software" My bookmarks are finally empty:D If you have a great open source tool you use, I'd be glad to hear your suggestions. Also, any feedback is greatly appreciated.
2025 · alternativeoss.com · its alternatives →
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- 20IM
Hey HN! I made a completely open sourced alternative to Weights and Biases with (insert cringe) blazingly fast performance (yes we use rust and clickhouse) Weights and Biases is super unperformant, their logger blocks user code... logging should not be blocking, yet they got away with it. We do the right thing by being non blocking. Would love any thoughts / feedbacks / roasts etc
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, wanted to share a new collection of dev utilities that are ad-free, client-side (nothing leaves your device), with a command+k menu for fast search. github.com/jamdotdev/jam-dev-utilities Why? The sites we use every day for data conversion (e.g. PNG to data URI) are cluttered with ads, one of those mildly annoying things engineers deal with while writing code. This came up at a recent team dinner, and we got interested in creating nicer, modern, uncluttered versions of these tools. Since then, every time we needed a util, we added it to our stack. Lots more tools still to…
2024 · its alternatives →
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