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OpenWorker completes replies, meetings and CRM updates, while Microsoft 365 Copilot leaves a draft for approval.

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OpenWorker and the draft you still have to finish

Microsoft 365 Copilot runs $18 a user a month on an annual commitment, on top of the Microsoft 365 licence you already pay for, and what it hands back is a draft somebody still has to open and finish. OpenWorker is an MIT-licensed desktop app that connects to the same inbox, calendar and CRM and is built around finishing the job instead.

A DIY home server made from inexpensive parts sits beside a crossed-out $18 monthly cost and rising RAM prices.

AI News

The eighteen-dollar server is gone

Every build-it-yourself piece in this archive priced the box at twelve to twenty dollars a month. Memory is up as much as 500 percent in twelve months because AI data centers bought the supply, hosting providers have raised prices three times this year, and the build math still wins. Just not on every project it used to.

Ten person team uses Macro for email, chat, documents, tasks, calls, and CRM instead of Superhuman and Linear, with AGPL.

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Macro and the forty-dollar stack

Ten people on Superhuman and Linear alone costs $5,880 a year, and all it buys is an inbox and a task board. Macro does email, chat, docs, tasks, calls and CRM out of one app for $40 a seat, and it moved to the AGPL in May, which means the escape hatch is written into the license.

Editable sales data schema for accounts, contacts, deals, and relationships stored in a company code repository.

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Twenty and the data model you were renting

A ten-person sales team on Salesforce list pricing pays about $21,000 a year, and the thing they are actually renting is not the software. It is the shape of their own business. Twenty puts that shape in a repository you own, and it shipped four releases in two days.

One designer uses an open source design app as collaborators queue behind and an autonomous coding agent works beside them.

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Open Design and the seat everybody waits on

A Figma Full seat costs $16 a month for every person allowed to make something instead of just look at it, and the queue behind the one person who has it is worse than the bill. Open Design is an Apache-2.0 desktop app that hands the making part to a coding agent you already pay for, and it shipped again yesterday.

PDF inspector routes selected invoices to Google document reading while bypassing other pages.

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pdf-inspector and the ten-cent invoice

Google will read a supplier invoice for ten cents a document and a generic page for thirty dollars a thousand. Firecrawl open sourced the piece that decides which of your documents need to be sent to a meter at all, and by their own count about half of them never did.

A gloved hand removes an expiring badge from a central cabinet linking workshop keys and temporary visitor passes.

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authentik and the six-dollar front door

Fifty people with one company login costs about $3,600 a year on Okta's cheapest tier, or $4,200 on Microsoft's. authentik does the same job on an eighteen-dollar server, and the release that went to beta this week is the first version the OpenID Foundation has certified.

Two staff rearrange printed panels in a compact storefront beside a counter, samples, forms, portrait cards, and brochures.

Git Articles

Instatic and the site you stop renting

A brochure site with a blog, a contact form, and two people allowed to edit it runs about a thousand dollars a year on Webflow before anyone writes a word. Instatic is the MIT-licensed version of that shape, with an AI agent that edits the page, and it is honest enough to tell you it is at version 0.0.14.

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