Ask HN: what are examples of successful "open-source alternatives"? 15 points by barrrrald 44 minutes ago | hide | past | favorite | 35 comments It seems like every day there's a Show HN post for another "open source alternative" to a popular SaaS app.And indeed, this search shows 34 pages of results, with clones of everything from Notion to Jira to Hex to Figma to Carta. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=open+source+alternativeI have some personal hypotheses on why this is a common pattern, but I am m...