os-alt changelog #1
Week of 2026-05-04 → 2026-05-10 · web archive
First issue. The directory shipped Monday, so most of the corpus is brand new — the section below shows the OSS repos that have committed (or stopped committing) since the Monday snapshot. From the next issue forward, this will read as week-on-week health flips.
What flipped this week
| Tool | License | Replaces | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| PicGo + libvips/sharp (DIY) lovell/sharp | Apache-2.0 | Cloudinary | stale → alive |
| n8n n8n-io/n8n | Sustainable Use License | Zapier | alive · new commit |
| Open WebUI open-webui/open-webui | BSD-3-Clause | ChatGPT | alive · new commit |
| Supabase supabase/supabase | Apache-2.0 | Firebase | alive · new commit |
| Immich immich-app/immich | AGPL-3.0 | Google Photos | alive · new commit |
| Hugo + Decap CMS gohugoio/hugo | Apache-2.0 | Squarespace | alive · new commit |
| Uptime Kuma louislam/uptime-kuma | MIT | Statuspage (Atlassian) | alive · new commit |
| Syncthing syncthing/syncthing | MPL-2.0 | Dropbox | alive · new commit |
| vLLM vllm-project/vllm | Apache-2.0 | OpenAI API | alive · new commit |
| Grafana stack (Mimir + Loki + Tempo) grafana/grafana | AGPL-3.0 | Datadog | alive · new commit |
New this week
Fresh SaaS surfaces we added — each one shipped with its own page of self-hostable alternatives.
- ChatGPT
ChatGPT is OpenAI's hosted chat product — a web/mobile UI on top of GPT-4o with conversation history, file uploads, image generation, and tools. The self-hostable replacements pair an open-weight model (via Ollama or your favorite…
- GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot is a paid IDE plugin that streams code completions and chat answers from a hosted model. The self-hostable replacements run an open-weight code model (DeepSeek-Coder, Qwen2.5-Coder, StarCoder2) on your own GPU and serve it…
- LaunchDarkly
LaunchDarkly is the dominant feature-flag-as-a-service — define flags, target by user/segment, control percentage rollouts, A/B test, all behind their global edge. The self-hostable replacements all do flags + targeting + percentage…