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      "quote": "I've used FutureMe since I was 16. After the acquisition they added paid tiers. So I built a free-forever alternative.",
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      "quote": "Why pay €300/year for this?",
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      "name": "Luigi Greco",
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      "name": "Freedom",
      "product": "Freedom",
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      "quote": "Site blockers on Chrome all run based on a freemium model, and I've always been annoyed by how I couldn't find one that had quite all of the features I need.",
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      "name": "Chronox",
      "handle": "chungusman",
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    "tagline": "Native Mac screenshots with markup, redaction and sharing. No subscription, no account, no analytics.",
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      "name": "CleanShot X",
      "product": "CleanShot X",
      "price": "$8/mo",
      "source": "https://www.stackscored.com/pricing/screen-recording/cleanshot-x/"
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      "quote": "The screenshot tool I always wanted. No subscription or account.",
      "source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023137"
    },
    "builder": {
      "name": "Tim Leland",
      "handle": "TimLeland",
      "url": "https://timleland.com/"
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    "tagline": "Mac dictation with AI cleanup and voice editing. MIT licensed. Bring a free API key and never pay a monthly fee.",
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      "name": "Wispr Flow",
      "product": "Wispr Flow",
      "price": "$15/mo",
      "source": "https://zackproser.com/blog/wisprflow-pricing-guide-2026"
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    "grudge": {
      "quote": "Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue.",
      "source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040375"
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    "builder": {
      "name": "Zach Latta",
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    "slug": "lag-writer",
    "name": "lag-writer",
    "url": "https://github.com/Kryhr/lag-writer",
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    "tagline": "A writing assistant that trails a few words behind you, fixing typos and apostrophes. Runs from a single HTML file. Grammarly wanted $12 a month for the apostrophes.",
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      "name": "Grammarly Pro",
      "product": "Grammarly",
      "price": "$12/mo",
      "source": "https://www.grammarly.com/plans"
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      "quote": "Built because the real ones cost money.",
      "source": "https://github.com/Kryhr/lag-writer"
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      "name": "Kryhr",
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      "local-first",
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    "slug": "sageling",
    "name": "Sageling",
    "url": "https://sageling.ai/",
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    "tagline": "A local AI assistant for Mac running Qwen 3.5 in-process. Free, private, and it doesn't run out at 3pm like the $20 plans do.",
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      "name": "ChatGPT Plus",
      "product": "ChatGPT",
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      "source": "https://tldv.io/blog/chatgpt-pricing/"
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    "grudge": {
      "quote": "I don't wanna pay a bunch of money for it, and the $20 plans run out real fast.",
      "source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569136"
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      "name": "Kirill Klimuk",
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      "url": ""
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    "slug": "locan",
    "name": "Locan",
    "url": "https://locan.ai",
    "icon": "📍",
    "tagline": "Seven local SEO checks that rank trackers charge $39 a month to run against public Google data. No account, no card, no \"upgrade to see the rest\".",
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      "name": "BrightLocal Track",
      "product": "BrightLocal",
      "price": "$39/mo",
      "source": "https://localdominator.co/brightlocal-pricing-guide/"
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    "grudge": {
      "quote": "The pattern that annoyed me most: owners paying monthly for 'rank trackers' and 'GBP optimizers' that just resell public Google Places data behind a subscription.",
      "source": "https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1w8xpcy/i_opensourced_the_free_local_seo_tools_we_built/"
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      "name": "vaitko",
      "handle": "vaitko",
      "url": ""
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      "marketing"
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    "slug": "spliit",
    "name": "Spliit",
    "url": "https://spliit.app/",
    "icon": "🧾",
    "tagline": "Split the bill with friends, unlimited expenses, no account, no ads. Splitwise wanted $4.99 a month to let you log a fourth expense today.",
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      "name": "Splitwise Pro",
      "product": "Splitwise",
      "price": "$4.99/mo",
      "source": "https://www.areweeven.com/blog/splitwise-free-vs-pro-2026"
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    "grudge": {
      "quote": "Splitwise now only allows to enter 3 expenses per day for free accounts. I thought it was time to offer a free and open source alternative.",
      "source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38939514"
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      "name": "Sebastien Castiel",
      "handle": "scastiel",
      "url": "https://github.com/spliit-app/spliit"
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      "finance"
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    "slug": "tabia",
    "name": "Tabia",
    "url": "https://daxaur.github.io/tabia/",
    "icon": "♟️",
    "tagline": "Drill your chess openings with spaced repetition, Stockfish in the browser, no account. The only paywall is the one it was built to escape.",
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      "name": "Chessreps Membership",
      "product": "Chessreps",
      "price": "$34.99/yr",
      "source": "https://www.chessreps.com/plans"
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    "grudge": {
      "quote": "After wanting to explore more lines I came across the paywall behind it, which left me with one option: To build the open-source version myself and finally its here: Tabia.",
      "source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576468"
    },
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      "handle": "daxaur",
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      "web",
      "learning"
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    "slug": "reframed",
    "name": "Reframed",
    "url": "https://reframed.dev",
    "icon": "🎬",
    "tagline": "Screen Studio wants $20 a month for zoom-on-click. Reframed does the zooms, captions and webcam bubble for the price of a brew install.",
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      "name": "Screen Studio Monthly",
      "product": "Screen Studio",
      "price": "$29/mo",
      "source": "https://www.screenkite.com/blog/screen-studio-subscription-free-alternative"
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    "grudge": {
      "quote": "Getting cursor-tracking zoom effects, auto-captions, or webcam overlays on top of that usually means paying for a proprietary app.",
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      "name": "jkuri",
      "handle": "kundi",
      "url": "https://github.com/jkuri"
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      "video"
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    "slug": "open-photo-ai",
    "name": "Open Photo AI",
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    "tagline": "Topaz swapped your perpetual license for $39 a month; Open Photo AI swapped that for an AGPL repo that upscales just fine.",
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      "name": "Topaz Photo Personal",
      "product": "Topaz Photo AI",
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      "source": "https://www.topazlabs.com/topaz-photo"
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    "grudge": {
      "quote": "Recently, however, Topaz Labs switched to a subscription-based licensing model, which I strongly dislike.",
      "source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298274"
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      "name": "vegidio",
      "handle": "vegidio",
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      "images"
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    "slug": "form81",
    "name": "Form81",
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    "tagline": "Typeform charges $29 a month and still caps your free responses at ten; Form81 charges nothing and forgot to add a cap.",
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      "name": "Typeform Basic",
      "product": "Typeform",
      "price": "$29/mo",
      "source": "https://www.typeform.com/pricing/"
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    "grudge": {
      "quote": "Most online form builders claim to be free, but their free tier is usually very limited - with unremovable branding, response limits, and many other restrictions.",
      "source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47262865"
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    "builder": {
      "name": "sh_tomer",
      "handle": "sh_tomer",
      "url": ""
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    "tags": [
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      "forms"
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    "slug": "openstrap-edge",
    "name": "OpenStrap Edge",
    "url": "https://openstrap.github.io/edge/",
    "icon": "⌚",
    "tagline": "WHOOP sells you a band, then charges $199 a year for permission to read it. OpenStrap reads it anyway, on your phone, for free.",
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      "name": "WHOOP One membership",
      "product": "WHOOP",
      "price": "$199/yr",
      "source": "https://trackervs.com/pricing/whoop-pricing/"
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    "grudge": {
      "quote": "Your strap doesn't stop working when the subscription does. Only the app goes dark.",
      "source": "https://openstrap.github.io/edge/"
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      "name": "OpenStrap (one person, unnamed)",
      "handle": "abdulsaheel123",
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    "slug": "theseolabs",
    "name": "TheSEOLabs",
    "url": "https://www.theseolabs.com/",
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    "tagline": "Ahrefs charges $129 a month to tell you what people type into Google. TheSEOLabs tells you for free, no account, no credit meter.",
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      "name": "Ahrefs Lite",
      "product": "Ahrefs",
      "price": "$129/mo",
      "source": "https://ahrefs.com/pricing"
    },
    "grudge": {
      "quote": "I've always found SEO tools like Ahrefs and SEMrush to be incredibly useful but prohibitively expensive for many users.",
      "source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41548313"
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      "name": "damienl",
      "handle": "damienl",
      "url": ""
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    "tags": [
      "web",
      "marketing"
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    "added": "2026-09-06"
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    "slug": "fovea",
    "name": "Fovea",
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    "icon": "🎥",
    "tagline": "Screen Studio wants $29 a month to zoom in on your cursor. Fovea does it on Windows for the price of an npm install.",
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      "name": "Screen Studio Monthly",
      "product": "Screen Studio",
      "price": "$29/mo",
      "source": "https://www.docsie.io/vs/screen-studio-vs-cap-pricing/"
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    "grudge": {
      "quote": "Tried a couple of products but they pissed me off (heavy, slow, expensive, didn't let you use all the features).",
      "source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026781"
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    "builder": {
      "name": "Chris",
      "handle": "cwbuilds",
      "url": "https://github.com/cw12574"
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      "video"
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    "vibe_coded": false,
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    "slug": "makemycvfree",
    "name": "MakeMyCVFree",
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    "tagline": "Type your whole career into Resume.io and it holds the PDF hostage for $29.95. MakeMyCVFree just hands it over.",
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      "name": "Resume.io Subscription",
      "product": "Resume.io",
      "price": "$29.95/4 weeks",
      "source": "https://resume.io/pricing"
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      "quote": "I noticed a terrible trend in the career tools space: \"free\" resume builders that let you spend an hour typing out your work history, only to hide the final PDF export behind a $15/month subscription.",
      "source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144540"
    },
    "builder": {
      "name": "MD Mohseen",
      "handle": "mdmohseenraees",
      "url": ""
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      "web",
      "local-first",
      "career"
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    "icon": "✂️",
    "tagline": "Descript wanted $24 a month to delete words from a video; a weekend and a browser tab turned out to be cheaper.",
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      "name": "Descript",
      "product": "Descript",
      "price": "$24/person/mo (Hobbyist, monthly billing)",
      "source": "https://www.descript.com/pricing"
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    "grudge": {
      "quote": "Descript costs $24/mo, so I built this over a single weekend with Fable!",
      "source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49065779"
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    "builder": {
      "name": "wassgha",
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      "video"
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    "slug": "eztest",
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    "tagline": "Test management is a spreadsheet with a login. Testiny charges $19 a seat for it; EZTest charges nothing.",
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      "name": "Testiny",
      "product": "Testiny",
      "price": "$19.48/user/mo",
      "source": "https://www.testiny.io/pricing/"
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    "grudge": {
      "quote": "They charge $20 per user per month but barely do anything worthwhile.",
      "source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196201"
    },
    "builder": {
      "name": "Philip Moses and Kavin",
      "handle": "philipmoses",
      "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=philipmoses"
    },
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      "self-hosted",
      "dev-tools"
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    "slug": "wakana",
    "name": "Wakana",
    "url": "https://wakana.io",
    "icon": "⏱️",
    "tagline": "WakaTime charges $14 a month to show you your own keystrokes; Wakana shows them back for free.",
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      "name": "WakaTime",
      "product": "WakaTime",
      "price": "$14/mo (Premium, monthly billing)",
      "source": "https://wakatime.com/pricing"
    },
    "grudge": {
      "quote": "I built an open source alternative to wakatime because I don't think a wakatime premium should cost more than a Github copilot subscription.",
      "source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43469783"
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      "handle": "jemiluv8",
      "url": ""
    },
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      "dev-tools"
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    "slug": "open-source-slack-ai",
    "name": "Open-Source Slack AI",
    "url": "https://github.com/meetbryce/open-source-slack-ai",
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    "tagline": "Slack AI's thread summaries come bundled with the $18-a-seat plan; this one comes bundled with a git clone.",
    "replaces": {
      "name": "Slack AI",
      "product": "Slack",
      "price": "$18/user/mo (Business+ plan, monthly billing, includes Slack AI)",
      "source": "https://slack.com/pricing"
    },
    "grudge": {
      "quote": "The official Slack AI product looks great, but with limited access and add-on pricing, I decided to open-source the version I built.",
      "source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40309448"
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    "builder": {
      "name": "Bryce York",
      "handle": "meetbryce",
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    "tags": [
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      "ai"
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    "vibe_coded": false,
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    "slug": "free-kids-typing-games",
    "name": "Free Kids Typing Games",
    "url": "https://free-kids-typing-games.com",
    "icon": "⌨️",
    "tagline": "Every kids' typing site wanted either ad money or your money, so a dad and ChatGPT built one that wants neither.",
    "replaces": {
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      "product": "",
      "price": "",
      "source": ""
    },
    "grudge": {
      "quote": "My kids are surprisingly keen to learn to type, and I couldn't find any thing out there which was A) Free without adverts B) Worked well on mobile/tablets C) Was clutter free and easy to use",
      "source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46255894"
    },
    "builder": {
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