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    <description>Monthly data on which self-hostable open-source SaaS alternatives are alive, stale, or dead — from os-alt.</description>
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      <title>When the OSS is alive but the license isn&apos;t: Sentry, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis (May 2026)</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A fourth failure mode for our self-host directory — the code keeps shipping, the license stops being open. Four case studies (MongoDB 2018, Sentry 2019, Elasticsearch 2021, Redis 2024) and what the structural-explainer spine got wrong about half of them.]]></description>
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      <title>The Datadog escape hatch is real: observability is the OSS vertical that&apos;s actually winning (May 2026)</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Three of three self-host Datadog alternatives we list are alive and shipped this week. After two posts on OSS dying, observability is the vertical where it's actually winning — and the reason is OpenTelemetry, not the projects themselves.]]></description>
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      <title>The link-in-bio OSS market never had a Grafana — and it&apos;s quietly dying anyway (May 2026)</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Two of the three self-host Linktree alternatives we list aren't alive. The third hasn't shipped in 82 days. And unlike on-call OSS, there's no well-funded successor coming — link-in-bio is the OSS failure mode that happens when nobody is fighting to kill you.]]></description>
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      <title>We list 3 self-host PagerDuty alternatives. None of them are alive. (May 2026)</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The OSS on-call market is in trouble. Grafana archived their OnCall project. LinkedIn's Oncall hasn't shipped in 9 months. Cabot's GitHub repo is gone. Here's what we found, and what to self-host instead.]]></description>
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      <title>Most self-host SaaS alternatives are alive — but 13 of 118 aren&apos;t (May 2026)</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[We scanned every GitHub repo recommended on os-alt as a self-hostable alternative to a paid SaaS. 6 are dead, 4 are stale, 3 we couldn't classify. Here's the full list with last-commit dates, and why a freshness signal matters more than star count when you're picking a self-host target.]]></description>
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