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I've been a big fan of https://alternativeto.net/ and using their "open source" and "self-hosted" filters. Even looking through the non-FOSS alternatives for a particular application/site can be helpful; sometimes a for-profit company will take a different approach to solving a problem and it will give me other ideas to consider.

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Some of the information on there is useful, but I'd say that alternativeto.net is an almost perfect example of a bloaty & hostile website. OP's website is much more pleasant.

Seems it's always the same trade-off: either a commercial site with an opaque business model, or a weekend passion project which might go away when the hobbyist in question finds they have other (or more lucrative) things to do.

Alternativeto was a site I used to frequent, but after their redesign, it’s been pretty painful to use and a lot less valuable.

SaaSHub founder here. Have you tried https://www.saashub.com? It has both "open-source alternatives" and "EU Alternatives".

In most cases I’m looking for alternatives to local apps, rather than a SaaS offering.

The most bewildering thing about the redesign is that the button to visit an application's website -- arguably the most important one since one would assume people are on the site to try out alternatives -- is now hidden somewhere far below the fold.

i've found this site easier to use and have better results than alternativeto. https://openalternative.co/

I’d have given them bonus points if they’d used “alternativetoalternative.to”.

https://madeineurope.dk is by far the easiest to navigate imo, but all the alternatives are of course european given the website name (can also filter by open source).

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