“I got tired of productivity tools constantly asking me to sign up, pay monthly, or deal with annoying UIs.”
sundanc, on news.ycombinator.com ↗
A Pomodoro timer, site blocker and rain sounds that never ask you to sign up, sign in, or upgrade.
A site blocker with scheduling, time tracking and a calm block screen. Every feature the freemium ones lock away, for free.
“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.”
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.”
Obsidian charges $5 a month to move your own Markdown between your own devices. Cairn syncs it through your own server and charges nothing.
“Obsidian made me pay them for syncing so I made an open-source implementation”
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.
