“I didn't want another subscription or another service holding the only useful copy of my ride history, so I started building my own self-hosted cycling archive.”
lordmaa, on reddit.com ↗
Ride apps rent you your own ride history by the month. Headwind keeps every pedal stroke on your own box, for free.
MyFitnessPal Premium is $79.99 a year per person, and that's only the food part. SparkyFitness tracks the whole family on your own server for zero.
“One good nutrition app runs $40–$100 a year; covering everything SparkyFitness covers means three or four subscriptions, per person, and still no single report across them.”
Mattermost started paywalling features it used to give away and sells the rest by the seat. Antimatter is the fork with the licence checks pulled out: SSO, LDAP, no nag screens, no invoice.
“Unfortunately, after a few disappointments at a previous company actually trying (and giving up) to buy a licence, and after their latest actions, which I could only call backstabs (paywalling previously available features, putting arbitrary limits that previously didn't exist, or recently adding nag screens to push people into either buying their licence or just away from their platform altogether), I've ended up fed up with their BS and started to work on a fork.”
Two note-app bills a month for a tree of documents. Ops Wiki is the tree of documents, encrypted, searchable, on your own box, and the bills go in the bin.
“Tired of paying for Yuque and Evernote, I built a simple note app for myself.”
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.
