Documents, databases, and project tracking in one workspace
CompanyNotion Labs
Since2016
PricingFreemium
Notion's insight was that a document and a database can be the same object. A page can be prose, a table, a board, or all three, and the same records can be viewed differently by different teams without duplication.
DocuSign is the name that makes a signature request unremarkable to the person receiving it, which is most of the value. Recipients already know what the email is and how to complete it.
Hosted commerce covering storefront, checkout, and payments
CompanyShopify
Since2006
PricingPaid
Shopify's real product is checkout. Conversion on a Shopify checkout is high enough, and the payment, tax, and fraud handling behind it complete enough, that most merchants should think very hard before replacing it.
Crowdin coordinates the people, files, and machine translation involved in shipping a product in more than one language. Source strings sync from a repository, translators work in the web editor, and translated files come back on merge.
Social media scheduling with a deliberately small surface
CompanyBuffer
Since2010
PricingFreemium
Buffer schedules posts and reports on them, and has resisted becoming a suite for over a decade. That restraint is why it stays usable for a one person marketing function.
Contentful separated content from presentation properly and early. Editors work with structured content models, and any number of front ends consume the same entries through an API.
Confluence is where large organisations put documentation that has to outlive the people who wrote it. Spaces, permissions, page trees, and approval workflows are built for scale and governance rather than for speed.
Schedule and analyse posts across 30+ social networks
Stars35.3K
Commit8h ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0
Postiz is a self-hostable scheduler for teams that publish to many networks and do not want to pay per seat for the privilege. It covers planning, drafting, approval, and publishing, with AI assistance for turning one post into per-network variants.
Outline is a documentation workspace built around search and structure rather than infinite nesting. Collections, a strong editor, and genuinely fast full text search make it usable at the size where most wikis become write-only.
Commerce building blocks rather than a fixed storefront
Stars32.4K
Commit2d ago
LicenseMIT
Medusa is a set of commerce modules - cart, orders, pricing, inventory, fulfilment - exposed as APIs you compose, rather than a themed storefront you customise around the edges.
A content platform that wraps your existing SQL database
Stars30.8K
Commit1d ago
LicenseBSL-1.1
Directus points at a SQL database you already have and generates an admin interface and an API over it, without imposing its own schema. Existing tables keep their names, types, and constraints.
Collaborative wiki with real-time editing and diagrams
Stars15.4K
Commit2d ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0
Docmost is a documentation workspace with real-time collaborative editing, nested spaces, and diagram support built in rather than embedded from elsewhere.
Documenso handles electronic signature collection with the signing certificate, audit trail, and field placement you expect, while keeping the documents on infrastructure you control.
Localisation platform with in-context translation editing
Stars4,085
Commit13h ago
LicenseApache-2.0
Tolgee's distinguishing feature is that translators work in the running application. Alt-click a string in the app and the editor opens over it, with surrounding context visible, which removes most of the ambiguity that produces bad translations from a spreadsheet.