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19 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
The daily read
Every content-safety tool on the market ships with somebody else's list of what counts as unsafe, and not one of those lists has "never quote a flat rate on a job that needs a site visit" on it. Mistral released a 3B model on Tuesday, free, that takes your rule as an English sentence at the moment you ask.
Repo of the day
A 25-person team on Slack Pro pays about $2,175 a year for a place to talk, and the bill climbs with every hire. Chatto is a single self-hosted binary that does the same job for the cost of a small server, roughly $120 a year, flat.
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Cloning the owner's voice for training videos and phone prompts costs $299 a month at the tier that gives a team three clones and thirty hours of audio. Voicebox does it on a laptop, MIT licensed, and the voice sample never leaves the building.
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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.