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13 Amazing Open Source Alternatives to Popular SaaS
These open-source alternatives are 10x better than their counterparts
“2025 is the year of open source”. This is what Sahil Lavingia said.
If you don’t know he is the founder of Gumroad and many other tools. He announced that he’d be open-sourcing Gumroad this year. And he has shipped a lot of open-source projects with his team already.
Open source is getting a lot of traction. And some projects are good, if not better than their closed-source counterparts.
In this article, we’ll talk about some of the amazing open-source projects that you can use in your everyday lives.
Crazy Good Data Analytics
If you are looking for a good open-source analytics tool, then these are the open-source beasts.
Plausible is an open-source and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics. It does not use any cookies and is fully compliant with GDPR.
Although Plausible is open source, if you want to use their service, the lowest plan starts at $9 per month. If you don’t want to pay, you can self-host.
Similarly, another really good alternative is Umami.
