“I got tired of subscription-based wall displays and locked ecosystems, so I built my own.”
silentg33k, on news.ycombinator.com ↗
A Raspberry Pi wall display that costs exactly zero dollars a month, which is apparently a radical feature now.
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.
