The next most popular answer will be defining user friendly and capable as being a bug for bug compatible identical clone with the current industry leader, despite the fact that the industry leader changes their app completely every two years as a moving target yet the users don't care at all, and the industry leader is rarely user friendly because they don't need to be once they have lock in. What they mean is the transfer will be visually seamless to end users and they somehow don't think that writing a clone would have any legal repercussions to the author and writing a clone would be significantly cheaper than just writing something original. So despite "MS Office" being a continuously moving target for 30 years there will never be a FOSS replacement for it, because it would be legal and labor impossible to make an exact bug for bug clone of todays current version and then maintain it tomorrow. Despite the fact that Google Workspace makes end users considerably more productive and its easier to use and easier to learn, its not bug for bug compatible with Excel so its worthless.
The next most popular answer after that will be UpdatesAsAService where last year's product is pretty much worthless today and you're paying for this years product to work. See TurboTax, and as much as no one wants to admit it publicly, almost all security software that only protects you tomorrow, if they even get to it that soon, from yesterday's threats.
organic maps (which also uses openstreetmap) is a bit more straight forward and minimal and is what i usually recommend to most people
The map data itself also isn't that great, but at least you can hunt around for the location you want while the car is parked or pulled over. The route recalculation issue is massively frustrating because it nabs you while you are actually driving, dodging other cars, etc.
I hadn't heard of Organic Maps. I'll look for it. Thanks.
Lots of half-baked clones but remarkably few quality foss implementations. WeKan is… a mess. Taiga is complex & the frontend is CoffeeScript (!!). FocalBoard looks about the best of them, but it’s still missing many features and they’ve explicitly rejected calls for OAuth and/ or SAML because they want as a paid feature.
I was very happy to discover Medusa (https://www.medusajs.com) on HN recently, a pretty solid Shopify alternative.
I run a Nextcloud instance and it supplies me with:
- Calendar through CalDav
- Photos through automatic uploading from my Smartphone
- Drive, obviously, through Desktop and mobile client
I know that there are extensions/plugins for Nextcloud which provide something like Keep functionality and there's also some plugin to connect to some hosted Office suite stuff, but I didn't look into that, yet.
So: Give Nextcloud a try.
Tax software is fucking evil and by having a FOSS version of it we could remove a huge lobbyist by driving them out of business which will then simplify tax filing for everyone.
It's the need for legal review by tax attorneys and CPAs that makes tax software really really hard to make.
FOSS tax prep software exists, most of it is ok, some of it is pretty good, but it's really a legal and regulatory problem that is not going to be solved by developers.
Also, PDF readers on windows are very bad. Acrobat doesn't have dark mode and it feels heavy. Xodo crashes a lot. SumatraPDF is very light weight but lacks a lot of features and lacks dark mode too. If you read a lot at night, this would be very important to you. And I am not talking about the UI only, the PDF itself gets inverted. Xodo does that very well.
I like PopSQL because it has ClickHouse support, and dashboards.
I've been looking for alternatives ever since they did the stupid cloud shove, but I haven't found anything coming close enough and robust enough that I can give to everyone, from developers to sales and HR, without having to worry about teaching them another language.
I started this a while ago and maybe it helps you:
I'm myself too have been working for more than 2 years on an alternative to confluence and haven't reached the same level either, but closer and closer every day
The co-founders are nice people and I have a years worth of the premium version. Unfortunately, too buggy and people end up booking at the wrong hour, multiple-events gets reset when I change time-slots in another.
I haven't found something as simple as Calendly -- that just works. A commenter here once commented about a different alternative but that got bought out and shuttered. I'm still on the final look-out till end of this month (FEB), else going back to the Calendly subscription.
https://github.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral “This is a full computer management web site. With MeshCentral, you can run your own web server and it to remotely manage and control computers on a local network or anywhere on the internet. Once you get the server started, will create a mesh (a group of computers) and then download and install a mesh agent on each computer you want to manage. A…”
So basically, the stack that is needed to handle B2B customers as a startup.
Currently these tools are very isolated, and where integrations exist, they are poor. We have to manage customers in 3 different systems that don't know about each other. When making sales progress on Intercom, it doesn't reflect as conversations in NetHunt.
Open-source would be excellent because Intercom is currently problematic with GDPR and high-security systems that don't like to embed third-party Javascript. The ability to self-host solves that. Most people will still use the hosted service you can offer if reasonably priced.
I hope that https://www.chatwoot.com will do this, but they are currently focused on only the Intercom part.
The services also don't necessarily have to be fully vertically integrated in 1 product as long as they interact well. For example, and add-on to Chatwoot that does the equivalent of Streak/Nethunt, something with good API integration, might also do the trick.
But it seems it's now in maintanence mode (I checked out their blog and posted): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30313260
Editing and manipulating CSV by hand is a pain. Something like a simplified sqlite viewer/editor?
I hate it, but filing in 4 different states plus dealing with a half dozen different brokerage 1099's that need to be wash sale calculated, it's either that or pay someone $500.