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5 articles matching / latest 13 Aug 2026
Repo of the day
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.
Repo of the day
Semrush charges $139 a month plus $45 for every extra login. OpenSEO runs the same six workflows on data you buy by the request, and the honest number is not zero.
Repo of the day
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.
Repo of the day
Hiring your 26th person takes a Jira bill from $2,250 a year to $4,550 for the identical product, because annual plans are billed in bands. Kaneo is the MIT-licensed board that does the same job on a twelve-dollar server, and the thing it shipped yesterday matters more than the price.
Repo of the day
The integration your RevOps person keeps filing a ticket for, when a deal closes, enrich the account, post to Slack, open the onboarding task, is a paid Zapier meter that bills by the task. Activepieces is the self-hosted version that runs the same flows for the cost of a small server, and the interesting part is the pivot into AI agents.