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Dev.to · os-alt
1mo ago
We audited 227 self-host OSS alternatives — 12% are stale or dead (State of Self-Host 2026)
A build-time GitHub audit of 227 OSS alternatives across 100 paid SaaS. 12% are stale or dead. 10 repos with ≥1k stars are quietly aging. Median commit age acro
Dev.to · os-alt
1mo ago
When the OSS is alive but the license isn't: Sentry, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis (May 2026)
A fourth failure mode for our self-host directory — the code keeps shipping, the license stops being open. Four case studies and what the structural-explainer s
Dev.to · os-alt
1mo ago
The Datadog escape hatch is real: observability is the OSS vertical that's actually winning (May 2026)
After two posts on OSS dying, observability is the vertical where it's actually winning — and the reason is OpenTelemetry, not the projects themselves.
Dev.to · os-alt
1mo ago
The link-in-bio OSS market never had a Grafana — and it's quietly dying anyway (May 2026)
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 succe
Dev.to · os-alt
1mo ago
We list 3 self-host PagerDuty alternatives. None of them are alive. (May 2026)
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 w
Dev.to · os-alt
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1mo ago
Most self-host SaaS alternatives are alive — but 13 of 118 aren't (May 2026)
We scanned every GitHub repo recommended on os-alt as a self-host alternative. 6 are dead, 4 stale, 3 unknown. Here's the full list with last-commit dates.
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