“I wanted a version of Nomad List that was free and didn't feel overbuilt, so I made Minimum Viable Expat.”
minviex, on news.ycombinator.com ↗
Cost-of-living comparisons for 230 cities, minus the $19.99 membership and the extra features nobody asked for.
Canva Pro wants a monthly fee to remove a background. Cutora does it in your browser and asks for nothing.
“While Canva keeps useful tools behind Pro plans, Cutora keeps image editing simple, fast, and accessible.”
Slack bills you per head, per month, forever. Deft puts chat, tasks and notes on your own server and bills you nothing.
“This started with three things: wanting Slack to do more, a growing resentment of SaaS bills, and getting slightly too obsessed with self-hosting.”
Speechify charges $29 a month to read text out loud. Earful reads your PDFs, books and photos of pages aloud on your own device, for nothing.
“The popular reading apps lock the basics behind a subscription of around $139 a year.”
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