“Commercial print‑farm add‑ons often lock the unattended‑looping feature behind a monthly subscription and a cloud account that can shut you out.”
Dani Aeschbach, on github.com ↗
Print-farm add-ons charge monthly to press print again. Loopimir loops the farm from your own Linux box, for free.
FlightConnections bills $39.99 a year to show you where the planes go. FSAtlas plots 170,000 real routes on your own server and bills nobody.
“It's designed for flight simmers, virtual airline pilots, and aviation hobbyists who want realistic route inspiration for their next flight with powerful filters for MSFS, X-Plane, or Prepar3D without needing a paid subscription like FlightConnections.”
Bitly wants $10 a month to remember that one URL means another URL. Jinx is a text file on GitHub Pages and it remembers for free.
“Paid link shorteners cost money every month for something that's really just a lookup table.”
Adobe wants $14.99 a month to merge two PDFs. S-PDF runs on your own box and merges them for the cost of electricity.
“A fast, self-hosted, open-source alternative to Adobe Acrobat / iLovePDF. Merge, split, convert, watermark, compress and visually edit PDFs from a clean, modern web UI - no subscriptions, no watermarked exports, no uploads to a third party.”
Built something because a company wanted your credit card for a feature that fits in a single file? That's spiteware. Submit it and join the hall of fame.
