Something that could view and edit org files and connect to any/most cloud services
A foss decentralized marketplace that costed very little or nothing at all to small stores to participate, to fight back against amazon and others
It would be nice to have the same, but for uber-like drivers
Wish Linux on mobile was just as mature as on desktop.
To be fair, it's not much of linux's fault, but mostly due to shitty hardware restrictions and proprietary drivers
An open source 2D animation suite that can compete with Toon Boom Harmony. I bought an (expensive) perpetual license for Toon Boom Harmony years ago, and then they moved to a ridiculously overpriced monthly subscription model and deactivated my license, essentially ripping me off for hundreds of dollars. So ever since then I've wanted something to come along and put them out of business.
I dream of a Bottom Up Logistics software that would enable us to thoughtfully connect and eventually scale grassroots resource sharing efforts. If Farmer Bertha had unsold crops she could list them. Communities in need of certain resources would indicate this. People could commit the use of their time, equipment, etc. The software would do the work of calculating efficient routes and assignments to get everything where it was needed.
My inspiration is the various pet rescue consortiums I’ve found in every city I’ve lived in. People crossing the country to pick up a single dog from rural alabama to bring it to a shelter in california. People pooling money to buy trucks specifically so volunteers can cart needy dogs around. They don’t use fancy logistics but they make it clear to me there’s a lot of uncaptured goodwill out there, and I think that given an organized way to engage, people would jump at the chance to participate in scaling a sharing economy based on empathy for our fellow creatures.
a link saver like pocket but simpler (mobile version)
Have you tried Wallabag?
Reviews in OpenStreetMap, so that google maps can have a real competitor.
Its not FOSS, but I use to use foursquare for years because of how good it was at finding good restaurants / things to do in a new city. Now that its shut down, there's no real alternative that comes close.
As an openstreetmap contributor, I wish this so much. Every time I add places in there I ask myself if I'm doing something really useful anf if it's being actually used by anyone, or if I'm just wasting my time while thinking I'm doing a relevant thing because I know absolutely no one that uses it. Actually, the main osm site doesn't even show details about businesses, but just the icon
I'm a sporadic/infrequent openstreetmap contributor, too - although I'm not second-guessing these contributions. Useless or not, I do use OSM all the time personally, so reason stands somebody before me did a good job and helped me a lot.
Admittedly, some of the people who use OSM around me use it because at a certain moment I've explained them the advantages. (I live in Europe and people frequently use other modes of transport besides the car, so OSM is legit frequently the better choice.)
I don't know if there's such thing but i wish there was a foss alternative for street view too
There are some people working on this and proposing some options.
IMO, as someone who regularly edits OSM, the maps need much more info and basic editing before reviews. I had to add many of my fave restaurants. Forget about reviews when the restaurants aren't even on there. Just saying. Maybe as it gets more users.
(Tangent: I was just in a foreign country where I didn't have much mobile data. But I had downloaded OSM maps beforehand and made edits beforehand for my trip. The only downside is that OSMand doesn't update their maps very often in some places so I almost never got to use all my edits. Overall though the offline maps were very helpful for navigation, etc.)
Holy crap I forgot about four square!
self hosted web archive that's flexible/robust enough (loading from multiple sources, auto scraping some site, search etc)
software with 1:1 feature parity with Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop (except genAI crap)
As far as InDesign---I don't think it will probably ever have 1:1 feature parity, but LibreOffice Writer has recently gotten some new features that allow for more fine-tuned word and letter spacing as well as glyph scaling. A paragraph composer is on the horizon as well. There's also Inkscape and Krita, but I'm guessing you probably already know about those…
EDIT: Also agitating for optical margin alignment on Writer; will see how that goes...
Hmm thanks, but yea a word editor would probably be missing a ton of layout and image features. The closest I've found was Scribus but it seems pretty rough.
Yes, I tried Inkscape, but sadly found its UI very unintuitive. Also bc it only works with SVG files, it doesn't properly support CMYK colours.
I know of Krita, but I mostly use Photoshop for image editing, not painting. And it's the one of the three I use the rarest and has the most alternatives, so my main pain points are the other two, as long as the three programs work well together. (Which is another weakness in FLOSS software, they don't tend to come in "suites". Not to say that Adobe apps don't have a ton of little inconsistencies and idiosyncrasies, but at least they can smoothly work with each other's files.)
I hear ya. I have never had good luck with Scribus despite several dedicated tries. Still kind of learning Inkscape; I mentioned Krita instead of GIMP because it has full CMYK support. Depends on what your needs are I guess! 🙂
A good competitor to SimuLink for graphic system oriented coding and for MATLAB's code generation, all with a modern UX
A federated internet archive, I'm wondering whether I should build it myself. With so many journalists being banned for reporting the gaza genocide we need more ways to combat censorship.
My main concern would be how to prevent tampering with archived pages - the owner of the second most popular site after Wayback Machine, archive.is, has been known to modify the content of archived pages for petty personal reasons. And without the sanctity of archives, the whole exercise loses its value as proof of records of the past.
maybe that would be a rare case of some blockchain-like structure being actually useful? But without any kind of tokenization, of course
I know lots of people are crypto-reactionaries... But there are like dozens of these projects in the (primarily open source) crypto space. The basic idea seems to be that a crypto-archive uses a blockchain for hosting and a cryptocurrency to fund it. I don't know how successful these projects have been. Here are a few quick examples from a search:
GarageBand. It's literally the only proprietary software that I prefer over open source DAWs.
Shouldout to LMMS, Audacity, etc. I appreciate and use these too. But GB makes things so easy...
Have you tried Ardour?
A better jelu that actually works for me. It won't import my Goodreads file AND it's ugly af. If I had the skills I'd fork it myself, but alas.
A self-hosted media tracker that automatically curates all media (tags, descriptions, etc)
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