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Paying for software is stupid… 10 free and open-source SaaS replacements

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Find all the best dev content at https://daily.dev/fireship Remember, for every paid SaaS, there is a free open-source self-hosted alternative. Let's take a look at 10 FOSS tools designed to replace popular tools like MS Office, Notion, Heroku, Vercel, Zoom, Adobe, and more. #software #programming #linux 💬 Chat with Me on Discord https://discord.gg/fireship 🔗 Resources My Full Linux Self-hosting Course https://fireship.io/courses/linux/ 10 Fullstack Apps https://youtu.be/FQPlEnKav48 Unhappy developers https://youtu.be/-pSf9_MgsZ4 🔥 Get More Content - Upgrade to PRO Upgrade at https://fireship.io/pro Use code YT25 for 25% off PRO access 🎨 My Editor Settings - Atom One Dark - vscode-icons - Fira Code Font ⭐ Repos mentioned LibreOffice https://github.com/LibreOffice Mattermost https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost Nocodb https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb Plane https://github.com/makeplane/plane Appflowy https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy Jitsi https://github.com/jitsi ERPNext https://github.com/frappe/erpnext Coolify https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify Dokku https://github.com/dokku/dokku Instant https://github.com/instantdb/instant

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lucy_greenwood 3 weeks, 3 days ago

I used to work with someone during the pandemic called Wayne. He used to have a public jitsi room called WaynesWorld. We once joined this room and there were a bunch of dudes chilling without shirts.

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maríacristina_deanda 7 months ago

Great video; I had been using some of these recomendations, but I'll try some of them that I didn't know

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kristen_brooks 9 months, 1 week ago

man i learn a lot from your videos. best part is i laugh and i learn which makes learning easy and memory strong. thanks man!

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gabriela.miranda 11 months, 2 weeks ago

2:38 I have never been so grateful to hear a youtuber recommend a sponsor. I've been trying to recollect the same of that website for months!

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melanie.campbell 1 year ago

why did u gooners make 4:39 the most replayed point in the video 😭

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marie_austin 1 year, 3 months ago

Amazing content! Thanks for sharing this valuable information!

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justin_brown 1 year, 4 months ago

The narration is just top tier.

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andrew_aguilar 1 year, 5 months ago

2:09 - That was good, that was real good 😂

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victoria_elliott 1 year, 6 months ago

Been using Dendron, a vscode extension, to do my note taking. Very powerful.

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daniel.cantu 1 year, 6 months ago

the thumbnail is so much underrated ! OJ shoutout

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carrie.chambers 1 year, 8 months ago

Thank you for sharing the links. They are already being put to good use. Some of the above mentioned alternatives I had no idea about until now.

angela.patterson
angela.patterson 1 year, 8 months ago

"Because we thought they were going to be easy" Droppin' facts as usual

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reecehopkins473 1 year, 9 months ago

Davinci Resolve isn't open source, but the free version is incredible

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rosaaltamirano467 1 year, 9 months ago

I always feel so overwhelmed by these videos- just goes to show how much there is to learn in this industry.

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maria_evans 1 year, 9 months ago

kdenlive is foss davinci resolve isn't

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corinne.daniel 1 year, 9 months ago

Libre office is my go to for over a decade now love it, I just reformated and am trying aopen office, its pretty much the same thing missing a few minor features so both are great options id say

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rafaél_gastélum 1 year, 9 months ago

Pretty much all of these make tones of sense and I love it. The difficulty I can see is just team based work, or collaboration, particularly as a freelancer. Things like Notion or Google docs etc use the tools clients or other team members already use or are familiar with, same with slack and zoom etc. It's super annoying, and I'd love to employ free or cheap open source alternatives where I can. It's just difficult in some cases. Maybe I'll find some workaround as time goes on and the open source tools get better (and the mainstream closed sources become more expensive and less secure and riddles with AI), maybe then others will be more receptive to use what I use (i.e the open source stuff). Great video though, and awesome rec's. 🙌

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dalton_gentry 1 year, 9 months ago

Going all open source felt so liberating to me, there's a piece of mind that comes with knowing your software will only do what you explicitly tell it to

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jonathan.hill 1 year, 9 months ago

Damn I hope 00 makes the next one of these. Great video!

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cynthia_garcia 1 year, 9 months ago

List of Paid thing and their best Free alternative: 1. Microsoft Office -> Microsoft Office(Pirated) 2. Photoshop -> Photoshop(Pirated) 3. Windows -> Windows(Pirated) ✅Free ✅Open-Source(Assembly)