os-alt changelog #1
Week of 2026-05-04 → 2026-05-10 · web archive
First issue. The directory shipped Monday, so most of the corpus is brand new — the section below shows the OSS repos that have committed (or stopped committing) since the Monday snapshot. From the next issue forward, this will read as week-on-week health flips.
What flipped this week
No flips yet — the first snapshot just landed, so every repo's status carried over unchanged. Future issues compare week-to-week.
New this week
Fresh SaaS surfaces we added — each one shipped with its own page of self-hostable alternatives.
- ChatGPT
ChatGPT is OpenAI's hosted chat product — a web/mobile UI on top of GPT-4o with conversation history, file uploads, image generation, and tools. The self-hostable replacements pair an open-weight model (via Ollama or your favorite…
- GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot is a paid IDE plugin that streams code completions and chat answers from a hosted model. The self-hostable replacements run an open-weight code model (DeepSeek-Coder, Qwen2.5-Coder, StarCoder2) on your own GPU and serve it…
- LaunchDarkly
LaunchDarkly is the dominant feature-flag-as-a-service — define flags, target by user/segment, control percentage rollouts, A/B test, all behind their global edge. The self-hostable replacements all do flags + targeting + percentage…