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Scoutflo — The first-ever commercial open-source marketplace - for Free
Explore high-quality commercial open source tools (proprietary SaaS alternatives) on Scoutflo Atlas - for free. Get a quick trial of OSS products, and deploy them on your own cloud within minutes! 💙
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@picsoung We genuinely appreciate your support! Ever since we discovered the increase in high-quality commercial open-source products, we knew it is the right time for businesses to start evaluating alternatives to their proprietary SaaS stack.
We believe that with Scoutflo Atlas & Scoutflo Deploy, businesses will be able to find the right product fit and self-host it seamlessly.
Looking forward to making commercial open-source mainstream 🚀
Scoutflo is on a mission to increase the awareness and adoption of open-source software products.
I’m Vedant, a co-founder at Scoutflo. I’ve been in the Product space for 4 years, and have also handled Sales for popular SaaS solutions – leading to a deep understanding of a buyer’s journey.
Today we're launching Scoutflo Atlas - A marketplace for commercial open-source software [COSS] products.
Commercial open source software combines the flexibility of open source software with the reliability of proprietary software.
We started working on this idea due to 3 key problem statements:
1. Open source products have a strikingly low adoption rate.
2. Proprietary SaaS products are expensive and have vendor lock-ins.
3. Onboarding and maintaining an OSS tool is usually not a hassle-free experience.
We talked to different stakeholders in the open-source space to learn about their challenges.
We narrowed down that many OSS Products, despite their quality and competence – do not get the kind of reach, visibility and distribution they deserve. And most businesses are not aware of dependable OSS tools they can include in their tech stack.
Our 1st step towards solving this is today’s launch - Scoutflo Atlas, with 200+ COSS alternatives to proprietary SaaS tools.
With Scoutflo Atlas, we want to:
- Create a centralized place to find high-quality open source products
- Make open source products more discoverable
- Significantly reduce SaaS spend by switching to managed self-hosted solutions
You’re at the right place if you are a:
- Commercial Open Source Company
- Business exploring Open Source
- Open Source Enthusiast (Maintainer/Contributor)
As a Business:
- Create your OSS product stack as per your budget, use case, etc.
- Eliminate complicated steps and simplify onboarding of OSS tools.
- Easily try out a tool even before self-hosting (sandbox version).
As an OSS Founder:
- Monetize the self-hosted version.
- Exponentially increase active users.
- Manage and maintain your product content with a dedicated CMS.
We also want to help non-developers (without DevOps or cloud experience) to try out and experience open source products.
Psst… We’re also launching early access of
Scoutflo Sandbox - To get a quick, free trial of selected open source products.
Scoutflo Deploy (Beta) - A frictionless onboarding tool to self-host open-source products on your own cloud.
While the world has just started to realize the unbounded potential of open source technology – Scoutflo wants to make it mainstream.
We’re starting with creating a frictionless experience for discovering, onboarding, and maintaining open source products 🚀
Your feedback is super valuable to us! ✨
Explore the platform, search and compare products, share with your community, and let us know what you think!
Open Source FTW 💙
@vedant4510 Congrats on the launch team!
The marketplace looks really neat, saw some really good products I was not aware of.
@yajinb_khalifa Thank you so much, happy to know that it helped you discover some cool new COSS products! :)
I recently started OSS-ing my tech stack, and it's awesome to see more products help with discovering OSS companies.
are you open to contributions, ?makers? what's the best way to suggest/submit a new open-source product to the marketplace?
@fmerian Hey Florent, We truly believe that commercial open-source products will become the new normal for businesses considering the all-time high subscription costs for proprietary SaaS tools.
your initiative of OSS-ing out your tech stack completely aligns with our vision and we will be happy to collaborate on this mission!
We have built a CMS for listing and maintaining products on our marketplace, which will be available to the public soon.
Let's connect and see how we can collaborate 🚀
I'm a simple man—I see open source, and I upvote.
Seriously though, love this initiative. I actually have a public directory of what I call CookieSlayers (cookieslayers.com), which are companies, products, and services that respect user privacy. All of them are open source (as of this writing). They're not all commercial products, but many are. We can probably discover a few more to add to both Scoutflo and CookieSlayers.
On a separate but related note, thanks for including Baserow 🙌
Baserow is super enterprise-ready for those who are unable to use Airtable. With Baserow, you can self-host and be in compliance with your legal/compliance teams for storing sensitive data, build plugins or apps on top of Baserow, and have unlimited storage limits.
Be on the lookout for Documenso (DocuSign alternative) from @eltimuro and Webstudio (Webflow alternative) from @oleg008 👀
Here's to open source 🍻
@hiramfromthechi Thank you so much for the super thoughtful comment, means a lot! Love the fact that you're big on open source, that is something we truly believe will become mainstream in the coming future!
Open Source FTW!💙
Pretty cool!
There are many tools out there that were complex to choose the best!
Happy to have it all in one place! Open sources rocks!
@marta_serrano_gili Thank you so much for the support! Open Source FTW! 💙
@marta_serrano_gili Glad that you find value in an open-source marketplace, we genuinely hope you find the right product for your use case and deploy it seamlessly on your preferred cloud infra.
@marta_serrano_gili thanks for the support Marta. That's our moto to make it easy for open source tools to get discovered, evaluated and deployed easily.
@marta_serrano_gili @atharva_bondre1 That's something which is highly in demand now. There are plenty of great alternatives out there but hard to discover.
This is what we needed! Open source is the way to go and a marketplace that collates all the best ones is crazy!
@harish_uthayakumar Thanks a ton for the support! 💙 Open Source FTW!
@harish_uthayakumar Thank you so much for your support! We hope the BlueLearn community can find some good open-source products to contribute to and upskill themselves 💙✨
Congratulations to the amazing team behind this great product.
can't wait to see the amazing impact this product would have on the open-source ecosystem.
Thrilled to be listed on Scoutflo Atlas already, thanks to the makers. This can become the friendly G2 of COSS and I look forward to participating on the platform.
@flxmgdnz Thanks a ton for this! We did take inspiration from G2 while designing the platform, it certainly can be one for COSS as it grows bigger and bigger in the coming years! Looking forward to it!
Congrats on the launch! The marketplace has a large variety of options.
What's the process to get a product listed on Scoutflo Atlas?
@karenlay Hi Karen,
We're listing Commercial Open Source Software (COSS) tools & products on our platform right now. We evaluate products based on various parameters including their Github stars, forks, issues, etc as well as other business metrics like having a pricing (indicating a business model), the founding team, their category and industry and so on. Based on the maturity and health of the product, we take a call whether the product fits our criteria for publishing on Atlas.
We have a dedicated internal CMS for maintaining and publishing these products on Atlas, which we soon plan to make public for maintainers to use. For now, if you want to apply to get a product published on Scoutflo Atlas, simply reach out to us at contactus@scoutflo.com and we'd be happy to help! :)
@vedant4510 Thank you for the thorough and helpful answer. The parameters described make a lot of sense. I will reach out to you.
Love this!
Theres so many great COSS (Commercial Open Source Software) tools out there that would easily beat out giant competitors both in functionality and flexibility.
Glad to have such a great resource to discover all the cool stuff out there
@omarmcpizza Hey Omar, thank you for your support and your contributions toward making COSS the new normal!
We are excited about this space :)
@omarmcpizza Thanks a lot for such a supportive comment.
As a founder of an open-source software company, I'm thrilled to see Scoutflo Atlas launch. This platform is a great resource for businesses that are looking to adopt open source software, and it's also a great way to increase the visibility and adoption of OSS products.
I'm particularly excited about Scoutflo Atlas's ability to help businesses self-host open source software. This is a great way to save money and gain more control over your software stack. Additionally, Scoutflo Atlas makes it easy to find and compare different open source products, which can save businesses a lot of time and effort.
I'm confident that Scoutflo Atlas will be a valuable resource for businesses of all sizes. I'm excited to see how this platform helps to grow the open source community.
Keep up the good work, Scoutflo Team!
@mendorshikh Extremely grateful for your constant support and encouragement, Mend! Let's make this happen 💙
@mendorshikh Thank you so much for the support! Looking forward to helping businesses realise the power of Open Source, discover the right COSS products for their use-cases, and save them a lot of time and effort while deploying and maintaining them! Open Source for the win! 💙
@mendorshikh That's so sweet of you. It's a great and detailed feedback and it's really helpful. You have been supporting us constantly for the start of the Scoutflo. Looking forward to way more collaborations.
Congratulations on the successful launch 🎉
There are numerous incredible COSS (Commercial Open Source Software) alternatives to proprietary software, but discoverability and knowledge pose the most significant challenges. I firmly believe this product will tackle those issues and encourage more people to embrace Open Source. I have prior experience with similar products, and so far, this one stands out as the best in class due to its simplicity and the depth of information it provides.
Great work, team!
@pradumnasaraf Thank you SO much, Pradumna! This genuinely means the world to us. We're constantly iterating to enhance user experience and simplify the process of discovering reliable OSS products. Highly appreciate your genuine appreciation and support! 💙✨
@pradumnasaraf Can't thank you enough for the detailed and insightful feedback that you gave. So happy to see you using the platform.
Congrats on the launch 🚀. It is well appreciated that you managed to collect open-source alternatives
A great product with a great team!
Congratulations to all involved. I cant wait to see what else this team is going to produce.
I tried it, and it's super easy to deploy open-source tools without much hustle. Love it.
Congrats team on the launch!
@jerinamathews Glad that you found the platform easy to use, we hope you are able to find the right commercial open-source alternative to your proprietary stack and self-host it seamlessly! 💙✨
@timur_ercan1 That's true. Looking forward to your support
@timur_ercan1 COSS is definitely going to become the new normal as we will see businesses switch to open-source alternatives to their proprietary stack!
Let's rebuild the world in COSS together 🚀
Really Cool!! This will not only spread the word about good open-source products but also help improve their adoption.
Congratulations ScoutFlo team for the amazing release! ❤️🚀 A tool I had always looked forward to and definitely will make "OPEN SOURCE FTW" real!
This made me time-travel to the problem statement the team (and I was working with too back then) about deploying open source projects, using it and even get desired support from them; and I think after few years of hustle, this has come true!
Kudos team, made me feel so happy how it has come out! To the moon 🚀
@soham_shah2 Thank you so much for the support! Glad to hear that this launch made you travel back in time to the problem statement, fun times haha! Open Source FTW! 💙
@peer_rich Cal.com is one of the main reasons we fell in love with Commercial Open Source products. We look forward to working with you and helping COSS products become the new normal for businesses moving forward!
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