A list of W3OSS products. Local-first apps are the real winners here, but not everything needs to be lofi to be listed.
In general, claiming the title of "third wave" requires that a product tick at least half of these boxes:
- 🕹 - It Just Works
- ⏳ - It Works Forever
- 💾 - Local First
- 💹 - self-sufficient (somehow)
- ⭐️ - loved
- 🏆 - winning
- 🍷 - tasteful
- 💎 - beautiful
- 🦠 - simple, atomic
- 🔒 - secure (e2ee > e@r > https)
- ♻️ - sustainable (beyond financing)
- 💀 - awful UX
- 🤮 - ugly UI
- 📺 - feels old
- 🤬 - infuriating because (REASON)
- 💩 - broken license, code, or repo
- 💸 - sustainability problem
- 🍄 - codependent
- ✨ - why doesn't everyone use this
- 🌏 - federated protocol
- 🦋 - non-profit
- 🔒 - secure
- https://syncthing.net/ - Airdrop? DropBox? There aren't really competitors to this.
- https://bitwarden.com 💩 - 1Password, LastPass
- https://ente.io - Google Photos, Apple Photos
- https://ente.io/auth - Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator
- 🌏 https://mastodon.social - Twitter
- https://bsky.app - Twitter
- https://gitjournal.io - Obsidian
- 🦋 https://signal.org - WhatsApp, Telegram, LINE
- 🌏 https://element.io 💀🤮 - Slack
- https://cal.com - Calendly
- 🔒 https://proton.me 💩 - Google Suite
- https://excalidraw.com - Miro
- 🔒 https://tailscale.com - NordVPN? Cisco AnyConnect VPN?
- https://discourse.org/ - Slack, Mailing lists ... SharePoint?
- https://www.beeper.com/ - Pidgin? ha. No competitor.
- https://nextcloud.com 📺 - Google Suite, M365
- https://www.mumble.info 🤮📺 - Discord (voice chat)
- https://firefox.com 💸 - Chrome
- https://plausible.io - Google Analytics
- https://typesense.org - Algolia + pinecone.io
- https://neon.tech - RDS, Aurora
- https://min.io - S3
- https://supabase.com - Firebase
- https://frame.work - Dell, Apple
- https://oxide.computer - AWS, Azure, GCP, HP Proliant