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126 products in total: 53 OSI-approved open source, 2 source-available, 5 unresolved-license Projects, and 66 proprietary. Structural source=open URLs remain supported; use the license-policy filter for the canonical distinction.
Application performance monitoring with usage based pricing
New Relic was the application performance monitoring product for a generation of web applications, and its repricing to per-user plus per-gigabyte was an explicit attempt to answer the complaint about host based billing.
Documents, whiteboard, and database in one canvas
AFFiNE puts a document editor and an infinite canvas over the same content. A page can be read as a document or arranged spatially as a whiteboard, and edits in one mode are edits in the other.
Browser-first password manager with a long history
LastPass popularised the browser based password manager and for years was the default recommendation for people moving off reused passwords.
Transactional and marketing email delivery
SendGrid handles the part of email nobody wants to own: reputation, authentication, bounce processing, and the endless negotiation with inbox providers about whether your mail is wanted.
Workforce identity and access management for enterprises
Okta is aimed at employee identity rather than customer identity: single sign-on across hundreds of business applications, lifecycle provisioning tied to a HR system, and the access reviews auditors ask for.
Typo-tolerant search that is fast to run and fast to tune
Meilisearch is a search engine you can be productive with in an afternoon. Indexing is a POST, relevance is tuned through an ordered list of ranking rules, and results come back typo-tolerant by default.
Deploy applications to your own servers with one click
Coolify is a deployment platform that runs on servers you already pay for. It builds from a Git repository, provisions databases, issues certificates, and handles rollbacks, without the per-instance pricing of a hosted platform.
Kanban boards simple enough that people actually use them
Trello is a board, a list, and a card, and for a very long time that was all. The restraint is why it spread beyond software teams to weddings, house moves, and editorial calendars.
Storage and document collaboration inside Workspace
Google Drive is storage with an office suite attached, and the suite is the reason most organisations are on it. Docs, Sheets, and Slides collaborate in real time well enough that the underlying file storage barely gets thought about.
Lightweight password vault server for Bitwarden clients
Vaultwarden reimplements the Bitwarden server API in Rust so that it runs comfortably on a Raspberry Pi or a small VPS, while the official Bitwarden desktop, mobile, and browser clients connect to it unchanged.
Product analytics with experimentation attached
Amplitude covers similar ground to Mixpanel with a stronger pull towards experimentation and governance. Event taxonomies can be enforced, which matters once more than one team is instrumenting the same product.
Colourful work operating system for cross-functional teams
monday.com presents work as configurable boards with strongly typed columns, then layers dashboards and automations on top. It is aimed at operations, marketing, and sales teams that want structure without a database.
Streaming aimed at audio quality and artist payout
Tidal competes on two things the larger services do not lead with: high resolution audio formats, and a payout model that directs a share of a subscription to the artists that subscriber actually listened to.
Photo library synced through iCloud across Apple devices
Apple Photos does most of its analysis on the device rather than in the cloud, so face grouping and object search work without the library being readable by the vendor. Sync happens through iCloud, and the library is a first party part of the operating system rather than an app you install.
Voice, video, and text communities organised into servers
Discord was built for people who wanted to talk while doing something else, and that origin still shapes it. Persistent voice rooms you drop into, rather than scheduled calls, is a genuinely different model from workplace chat.
Music streaming with lossless audio and no free tier
Apple Music ships lossless and spatial audio at no extra cost, which is the clearest technical differentiator in the category. Editorial curation is stronger than the algorithmic competition; algorithmic discovery is weaker.
Streaming backed by YouTube's catalogue of everything
YouTube Music reaches material no licensed catalogue contains: live sets, remixes, covers, and regional uploads that never had a commercial release. For anyone whose listening goes past the mainstream, that coverage is decisive.
Speech recognition that runs anywhere, with no runtime
whisper.cpp is a C and C++ port of the Whisper speech recognition model with no Python dependency, quantised weights, and hardware acceleration across Apple Silicon, CUDA, and plain CPU.
Design and prototyping built on open web standards
Penpot stores designs as SVG and uses CSS layout primitives - flex and grid - as its layout model, so what a designer builds maps onto what a developer implements rather than needing translation.
Chat, calls, and files bundled into Microsoft 365
Teams wins on bundling rather than on craft. If an organisation already pays for Microsoft 365, Teams arrives at no additional cost with identity, files, and calendar already wired together.
Issue tracking and planning without per-seat pricing
Plane covers the ground between a lightweight tracker and a full project suite: issues, cycles, modules, and roadmaps, with views that suit both engineers and the people asking them for dates.
Multi-channel notification infrastructure for applications
Novu takes the notification logic that usually ends up scattered across a codebase - which channel, which template, which quiet hours, which digest window - and puts it behind one API and one workflow editor.
Scheduling infrastructure you can host and extend
Cal.com covers the booking link case well, but its real distinction is that scheduling is exposed as infrastructure. Availability, event types, and bookings all have APIs, and the booking page can be embedded rather than linked.
Schedule and analyse posts across 30+ social networks
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.
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