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9 articles matching / latest 14 Aug 2026
Repo of the day
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.
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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.
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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.
Repo of the day
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.
Repo of the day
A prospect's security questionnaire lands on your desk and it wants a recent penetration test. The firms quote ten to thirty thousand dollars for one web app. Strix is an open-source AI pentester that runs the same class of test for the price of the tokens it burns, and the catch is what a report you ran yourself is actually worth.
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A team running a few thousand dollars of AI a month hands a middleman five and a half percent of it for routing. OmniRoute is the self-hosted version of that middleman, and the math only works if you also count what the fee was quietly buying you.
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Every contract your business sends for signature runs through a vendor charging 540 dollars a seat a year, with a cap on how many you can send. Documenso is the open source version of that, and it just shipped again this week.
Repo of the day
Onyx is an open-source AI assistant that answers questions from your own docs, tickets, and chat history. It does the job companies buy Glean for, and Glean starts at roughly a hundred seats and sixty grand a year.
Repo of the day
OpenCut is a free, browser-based, open-source video editor that lets a gym, med spa, or home services business cut its own Instagram Reels without paying for CapCut Pro or Premiere, or routing footage through a Chinese-owned app's servers.