7 repos that replace a bill you're still paying

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The content directly addresses a common pain point for developers and tech-savvy individuals: recurring software costs. By offering free, open-source alternatives, the post provides tangible value and actionable advice, making it highly shareable and useful.

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This slideshow presents seven open-source tools that can replace paid services, covering areas like backend development, monitoring, web serving, database interfaces, search, analytics, and AI generation. The creator encourages viewers to save the list and cancel one of their current paid subscriptions.

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1Introduction of the concept: replacing paid bills with open-source repos.
2Showcase of Supabase as a backend replacement.
3Showcase of Uptime Kuma for monitoring.
4Showcase of Caddy for web serving and HTTPS.
5Showcase of Nocodb as a database interface.
6Showcase of SearxNG for metasearch.
7Showcase of Plausible for analytics.

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Seven tools you can host yourself, each one replacing something that bills you every month. 1.supabase: a full Postgres backend with auth, storage, realtime and edge functions, open source and self-hostable 2.uptime-kuma: uptime monitoring, status pages and alerts, the category most builders quietly pay for without comparing 3.caddy: a web server that requests and renews your certificates by itself, automatic HTTPS from a config you can read 4.nocodb: turns any Postgres or MySQL database into a spreadsheet interface, Airtable’s shape on your own data 5.searxng: metasearch that aggregates many sources and tracks nobody, also the cheapest way to give an agent web search 6.plausible: cookie-free analytics light enough to sit in a script tag, with no consent banner to bolt on 7.Open-Generative-AI: an image and video generation studio you host yourself, with no credit meter Save this and cancel one this week. #opensource #selfhosted #claudecode #github #ai

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#1 supabase A full backend to Postgres: database, auth, storage, realtime and edge functions. The hosted plan is the convenient option, but the entire thing is open source and runs on a server you control. supabase/supabase The Postgres development platform. Supabase gives you a dedicated Postgres database to build your web, mobile, and AI applications. 2K Contributors 283 Issues 13K Discussions 108K Stars 14K Forks @joshualevi.ai Swipe → #2 uptime-kuma Uptime monitoring with status pages and alerts to almost anywhere you already read messages. This is the category most builders quietly pay a monthly fee for without ever comparing it. louislam/uptime-kuma A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool 1K Contributors 707 Issues 91K Stars 8K Forks @joshualevi.ai Swipe → #3 caddy A web server that requests and renews your certificates by itself. Automatic HTTPS from a config file you can actually read, instead of a hosting plan that hides the whole layer from you. caddyserver/caddy Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS 430 Contributors 1K Used by 75K Stars 5K Forks @joshualevi.ai Swipe → #4 nocodb Turns any Postgres or MySQL database into a spreadsheet interface the non-technical half of your team can use. Airtable's shape, on your data, on your server. nocodb/nocodb A Free & Self-hostable Airtable Alternative 347 Contributors 210 Used by 2K Discussions 65K Stars 5K Forks @joshualevi.ai Swipe → #5 searxng A metasearch engine that aggregates results from many sources and tracks nobody. Also the cheapest way to give an agent real web search once the paid search APIs start adding up. searxng/searxng SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked... 286 Contributors 179 Issues 490 Discussions 36K Stars 3K Forks @joshualevi.ai Swipe → #6 plausible Cookie-free analytics light enough to sit in a script tag, with no consent banner to bolt on. You see the numbers you actually act on, and nobody else gets a copy of your visitors. plausible/analytics Open source, privacy-first web analytics. Lightweight, cookie-free Google Analytics alternative. Self-hosted or cloud. 123 Contributors 282 Used by 2K Discussions 29K Stars 2K Forks @joshualevi.ai Swipe → #7 Open-Generative-AI An image and video generation studio you host yourself. The credit meter is the entire business model of the paid platforms, and this one simply does not have one. Anil-matcha/Open-Generative-AI Unrestricted Open-source alternative to AI video platforms - Free AI image & video generation studio with 500+ models (Flux, Midjourney,... 15 Contributors 13 Issues 27K Stars 5K Forks @joshualevi.ai Swipe → Save this and cancel one this week Seven tools, seven recurring costs. Every one of them open source. @joshualevi.ai →