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Is there some project that the opensource world is missing that you think it needs?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Perhaps a model like itch.io offers. Each product can set a price or have a "pay what you want" model. I feel some would be more likely to give money if it's right up front.

But the biggest part that I think we need, is a centralized location, store or not. Sometimes it's hard to find if an open source alternative even exists because it could be on Github, Gitlab, Codeberg, etc.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah alternativeto.net works for that but there is no direct pay and install