For a while people have been asking if opensource softwares were secure, reliable or worth trusting. Just look at the success of tools like Airbyte , PostHog or Rowy , all viable open source solutions. There are now many open source alternatives and it could be hard to navigate them, and find the one that works for you. This is what Scoutflo is offering.

Scoutflo is on a mission to increase the awareness and adoption of open-source software products. I’m Vedant, a co-founder at Scoutflo. I’ve been in the Product space for 4 years, and have also handled Sales for popular SaaS solutions – leading to a deep understanding of a buyer’s journey. Today we're launching Scoutflo Atlas - A marketplace for commercial open-source software [COSS] products. Commercial open source software combines the flexibility of open source software with the reliability of proprietary software. We started working on this idea due to 3 key problem statements: 1. Open source products have a strikingly low adoption rate. 2. Proprietary SaaS products are expensive and have vendor lock-ins. 3. Onboarding and maintaining an OSS tool is usually not a hassle-free experience. We talked to different stakeholders in the open-source space to learn about their challenges. We narrowed down that many OSS Products, despite their quality and competence – do not get the kind of reach, visibility and distribution they deserve. And most businesses are not aware of dependable OSS tools they can include in their tech stack. Our 1st step towards solving this is today’s launch - Scoutflo Atlas, with 200+ COSS alternatives to proprietary SaaS tools. With Scoutflo Atlas, we want to: - Create a centralized place to find high-quality open source products - Make open source products more discoverable - Significantly reduce SaaS spend by switching to managed self-hosted solutions You’re at the right place if you are a: - Commercial Open Source Company - Business exploring Open Source - Open Source Enthusiast (Maintainer/Contributor) As a Business: - Create your OSS product stack as per your budget, use case, etc. - Eliminate complicated steps and simplify onboarding of OSS tools. - Easily try out a tool even before self-hosting (sandbox version). As an OSS Founder: - Monetize the self-hosted version. - Exponentially increase active users. - Manage and maintain your product content with a dedicated CMS. We also want to help non-developers (without DevOps or cloud experience) to try out and experience open source products. Psst… We’re also launching early access of Scoutflo Sandbox - To get a quick, free trial of selected open source products. Scoutflo Deploy (Beta) - A frictionless onboarding tool to self-host open-source products on your own cloud. While the world has just started to realize the unbounded potential of open source technology – Scoutflo wants to make it mainstream. We’re starting with creating a frictionless experience for discovering, onboarding, and maintaining open source products 🚀 Your feedback is super valuable to us! ✨ Explore the platform, search and compare products, share with your community, and let us know what you think! Open Source FTW 💙

Pretty cool! There are many tools out there that were complex to choose the best! Happy to have it all in one place! Open sources rocks!

Great to see, COSS needs more visibility. Let's rebuild the world in COSS 🚀

Being the engineering lead at Stratzy (a Indian fintech startup) and only devops guy in the team I am well aware with the level of complexity that goes into deploying and self hosting open source softwares and maintaining it overtime as we ourselves believe in FOSS and self host almost everything in our tech stack. Being an early user of scoutflo atlas I have tested the product to deploy various FOSS on our AWS VPC and can confirm that it just works fine with super fast deployments and takes out the pain of individually deploying and managing everything saving a lot of time and effort which allows me to focus on other things. Supercool product they have made which really helps you to pick the best alternatives among various FOSS solutions and deploy them in a minimal configuration setup leveraging benefits of cloud native infrastructure.

I recently started OSS-ing my tech stack, and it's awesome to see more products help with discovering OSS companies. are you open to contributions, ?makers? what's the best way to suggest/submit a new open-source product to the marketplace?

Congratulations on the successful launch 🎉 There are numerous incredible COSS (Commercial Open Source Software) alternatives to proprietary software, but discoverability and knowledge pose the most significant challenges. I firmly believe this product will tackle those issues and encourage more people to embrace Open Source. I have prior experience with similar products, and so far, this one stands out as the best in class due to its simplicity and the depth of information it provides. Great work, team!

Congratulations to the amazing team behind this great product. can't wait to see the amazing impact this product would have on the open-source ecosystem.

As a founder of an open-source software company, I'm thrilled to see Scoutflo Atlas launch. This platform is a great resource for businesses that are looking to adopt open source software, and it's also a great way to increase the visibility and adoption of OSS products. I'm particularly excited about Scoutflo Atlas's ability to help businesses self-host open source software. This is a great way to save money and gain more control over your software stack. Additionally, Scoutflo Atlas makes it easy to find and compare different open source products, which can save businesses a lot of time and effort. I'm confident that Scoutflo Atlas will be a valuable resource for businesses of all sizes. I'm excited to see how this platform helps to grow the open source community. Keep up the good work, Scoutflo Team!

Impressed by Scoutflo's launch on Product Hunt! The concept of deploying open-source tools easily is intriguing. I'd love to know more about the platform's compatibility with different infrastructure setups. Does Scoutflo support cloud-based deployments, on-premises environments, or both?

The product looks extremely useful. Being in Sales I can vouch that it's going to be super beneficial!

Congratulations on the launch🎉

congratulations on launch. It is much needed product.

This is what we needed! Open source is the way to go and a marketplace that collates all the best ones is crazy!

You guys have worked hard to make this success, keep it going.

I'm a simple man—I see open source, and I upvote. Seriously though, love this initiative. I actually have a public directory of what I call CookieSlayers (cookieslayers.com), which are companies, products, and services that respect user privacy. All of them are open source (as of this writing). They're not all commercial products, but many are. We can probably discover a few more to add to both Scoutflo and CookieSlayers. On a separate but related note, thanks for including Baserow 🙌 Baserow is super enterprise-ready for those who are unable to use Airtable. With Baserow, you can self-host and be in compliance with your legal/compliance teams for storing sensitive data, build plugins or apps on top of Baserow, and have unlimited storage limits. Be on the lookout for Documenso (DocuSign alternative) from @eltimuro and Webstudio (Webflow alternative) from @oleg008 👀 Here's to open source 🍻

Congrats on the launch! The marketplace has a large variety of options. What's the process to get a product listed on Scoutflo Atlas?

Congratulations ?makers, keep up the good work! Open Source <3

Congratulations! And good luck with your fantastic mission!

Love this! Theres so many great COSS (Commercial Open Source Software) tools out there that would easily beat out giant competitors both in functionality and flexibility. Glad to have such a great resource to discover all the cool stuff out there