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OpenAlternative is a community driven list of open source alternatives to proprietary software and applications.

Our goal is to be your first stop when researching for a new open source service to help you grow your business. We will help you find alternatives of the products you already use.

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OpenAlternative is an GPL-3.0-licensed open source project with its ongoing development made possible entirely by the support of these awesome backers. If you'd like to join them, please consider sponsoring OpenAlternative's development.

OpenAlternative is a Next.js application using the App Router architecture. The project follows a standard Next.js file structure:

• app/ - Application routes and layouts
• components/ - Reusable React components
• lib/ - Core utilities and business logic
• public/ - Static assets
• utils/ - Helper functions and utilities

This project uses Bun as the package manager and runtime. Make sure you have Bun installed before proceeding.

To set up the project for development:

1. Clone the repository
2. Run bun install to install all dependencies
3. Set up the required environment variables (see below)
4. Run bun run db:push to push the Prisma schema to the database
5. Run bun run dev to start the application in development mode

Refer to the .env.example file for a complete list of required variables.

Copy the .env.example file to .env and update the variables as needed:

cp .env.example .env

All commands are run from the root of the project, from a terminal:

OpenAlternative uses the following third-party services:

• Database: Supabase
• Analytics: Plausible, PostHog
• Newsletter: Beehiiv
• Background Jobs: Inngest
• File Storage: AWS S3
• Payments: Stripe
• Screenshots: ScreenshotOne

Make sure to set up accounts with these services and add the necessary environment variables to your .env file.

The project is set up for deployment on Vercel. To deploy manually:

1. Build the project: bun run build
2. Start the production server: bun run start

Ensure all environment variables are properly set in your production environment.

OpenAlternative is licensed under the GPL-3.0 License.