| DNS: A Replacement for Finger | Finger | Other software | 3 |
| LinkedIn introduces Northguard, its replacement for Kafka (2025) | Kafka | Other software | 2 |
| Building a peer-to-peer alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels with edge TLS certs | Cloudflare Tunnels | Hosting, PaaS & cloud | 15 |
| Euro-Office, EU open-source alternative to MSFT Office and Google Docs launches | MSFT Office | Notes, docs & productivity | 2 |
| I built three Wikipedia-based search tools as alternatives to Google AI | Google AI | Other software | 2 |
| Static Forms – open alternative to Formspree for static websites | Formspree | Other software | 1 |
| TheDeck – A touchscreen alternative to the StreamDeck using RP2040 | the StreamDeck | Other software | 2 |
| Migrating from GitHub Actions to Sourcehut Builds | GitHub Actions | Developer tools | 4 |
| Mastodon Isn't Just a Replacement for Twitter (2022) | Twitter | Other software | 3 |
| DjVu file format, alternative to PDF | PDF | Other software | 2 |
| French NATO commander: Europe has no alternative to Palantir's warfare tech | Palantir's | Other software | 5 |
| OSS Alternative to AWS Transfer Family Written in Elixir | AWS Transfer Family | Hosting, PaaS & cloud | 4 |
| Migrating from ingress-Nginx to Envoy Gateway | ingress-Nginx | Other software | 1 |
| Kubernetes: Lessons learned from hosting an European alternative to Google Docs | Google Docs | Notes, docs & productivity | 1 |
| Migrating from Go to Rust | Go | Other software | 8 |
| Polylux: Open-source replacement for Asus Armoury Crate that saves 470MB RAM | Asus Armoury Crate | Other software | 2 |
| I built an affordable alternative to AppTweak and Sensor Tower ($19.99 lifetime) | AppTweak | Other software | 1 |
| Files.md – open-source alternative to Obsidian | Obsidian | Notes, docs & productivity | 5 |
| Hosting an Open Alternative to Google Docs for Digital Sovereignty | Google Docs | Notes, docs & productivity | 16 |
| Notesnook: An end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote | Evernote | Notes, docs & productivity | 3 |
| Switching from macOS to Pop _OS | macOS | OS, browsers & email clients | 6 |
| RustChat is a minimal team messenger, alternative to Slack, Mattermost, Zulip | Slack | Team chat & meetings | 2 |
| An open-source, self-hosted alternative to SaaS monitoring for Laravel | SaaS | Other software | 1 |
| Migrating from Supabase to Render (2023) | Supabase | Hosting, PaaS & cloud | 3 |
| NYMes – a modern alternative to classic NFTs | classic NFTs | Other software | 2 |
| Migrating from Supabase | Supabase | Hosting, PaaS & cloud | 4 |
| RootAsRole – A better alternative to sudo(-rs)/su | sudo | Other software | 2 |
| Migrating from Ubuntu to Debian | Ubuntu | Other software | 3 |
| I developed an alternative to Jira with Claude in 8 days, all by myself. | Jira | Project management | 6 |
| Cheap worktree replacement for agent swarm | agent | Analytics | 2 |
| LocalPilot with Ollama as a Replacement for CoPilot in VS2026 | CoPilot | AI assistants & models | 2 |
| Open Source Railway Alternatives | | Hosting, PaaS & cloud | 4 |
| GitHub to Forgejo: what to get right before a one-afternoon switch | | Developer tools | 2 |
| Meta Is Switching to Slack | | Team chat & meetings | 5 |
| I migrated a 4 year old PrestaShop store and made a pratical ETL guide on it | | Other software | 2 |
| Typst with Pandoc: A Modern, Fast Alternative to (Xe)LaTeX for PDF Generation | | Other software | 3 |