You don't need to pay hundreds of dollars every month in recurring SaaS bills. Here are 6 battle-tested open-source GitHub repositories you can self-host or run locally:
- Ollama (
186.6k ★|MIT): Replaces OpenAI API (ollama run gemma3) - Supabase (
114.8k ★|Apache-2.0): Replaces Firebase (npx supabase init) - Immich (
118.8k ★|AGPL-3.0): Replaces Google Photos / iCloud (docker compose up -d) - Excalidraw (
135.5k ★|MIT): Replaces Miro (docker run -p 5000:80 excalidraw/excalidraw) - PocketBase (
61.6k ★|MIT): Replaces Auth0 + BaaS (./pocketbase serve) - Umami (
40.1k ★|MIT): Replaces Google Analytics (~2 KB cookie-free analytics)
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