Website for sale, OpenAlternative

OpenAlternative is a community driven list of open source alternatives to proprietary software and applications. The goal of the site is to be your first stop when researching for a new open source service to help you grow your business. It will help you find alternatives and reviews of the products you already use.

The project started as a weekend project to learn a new technology and try something new and fun from scratch. It gained a lot of traction early on (100k unique visitors –n one week, #1 on Hacker News) so it was clear that there was a need for a site like this.
I’ve always been a fan of open source software and I’ve always wanted to contribute to the community in some way. I thought that creating a list of open source alternatives to proprietary software and applications would be a great way to give back to the community.

Tech Stack

It’s a standalone app built in React (Remix) with a custom database hosted on Supabase. I only use it for Postgres so moving would be as easy as migrating the DB to another provider like Neon or anything else.
Aside from that, I’m using Algolia for the search. The website is hosted on Vercel, and it’s using CRON actions to pull the GitHub stats every day.
Overall, it’s a very simple stack, and I also tried to make it easy to migrate if needed.

Tech stack: React (Remix) + Supabase + Algolia + Vercel