D2man's comments

Am I the only one here thinking this is an unwanted future ?

Aerospace is already profiting to few rich people on earth and represents 2% of global emissions and this is saying "well we need to go faster consuming yet huge amount of fuel" for the wealthiest. Please stop these technos solutionists gadget and start to think real problems like the climate crisis.

I also do it to relax mysef or to dig deeper in my thoughts

Sounds amazing.

What is the chemical transformation equation?

What is your system efficiency?

Consider applying to Time for the place to get funded. They looked for such innovations: https://time-planet.com/en

On your advice, I have edited the title.

To avoid misunderstandings, On the advice of @gk1, I edit the blog post title to :

"Introducing Alternative, the community-powered search engine for software"

Unfortunately, I couldn't edit it on HN

Does it sound better?

Alternative store data, provided by the community, about the software and online service market.

With these data, Alternative helps to select your future software.

You can start from a similar software search or a functionality search and then reduce the results list to a shortlist of 3 candidates using the tools we provide.

Does it sound clearer? :)

Alternativeto is an old player in this game. They, definitely have a better database, but it's quicker to add software on Alternative and we have a complete set of tools.

We are covering website, software, toolkit, code, API, and library. You'll have this detail in the detail sheet. In addition, if you sign in, the comparator allows you to filter by type (for example "software").

Alternative is focusing on comparison tools to make your selection faster. The database is growing but it still new. Join us to make a difference!

Problem fixed. Sorry for these sad emotions you were experiencing will using Alternative. I am doing my best.

Thanks

1. There's no alternativeto in french.

2. With those tools, we think you'll make your choice faster even with a very long results list. I think you deserve these tools as a counterpart for your work on Alternative. We build it thinking to corporate needs.

If you are ok with Alternativeto that's fine. :)

Thanks for the report. "bind9" is not recorded in the database yet. "dns" is recorded as a category but without software liked to it that's why the page is blank.

Indeed, this is not the problem we are answering, but your first though seems a great idea.

We provide an open search route API :

https://benchmarker.fr/opensearch?q={searchTerms}

You can then configure a redirection folowing these guidelines:

  <Url type="text/html" template="https://alternative-a.com/en/search">
    <Param name="q" value="{searchTerms}"/>
    <!-- other Params if you need them… -->
    <Param name="view" value="list"/>
    <Param name="sort" value='["reduction","DESC"]'/>
  </Url>

Can you precise, why would you scrape Alternative? Your answer will help us define the next priorities.

You can use Alternative now. It's an online service. More we are to share our knowledge on Alternative faster you will find your software.

Have you tried it?

Thanks for reporting this bug. The problem has been corrected in a new version. It's in production.

Tell me if it persists :)

That's true, we build Alternative knowing the advantages and drawbacks of the market. Besides data, we tried to build tools that help you to make your choices. We relied on scraped data and reviews.

Sorry for my poor english ! I'll ckeck grammarly

Sorry for that, I tried to be as clear as possible. May I help you ?

Can you precise which jargon ?

You are right! Alternative is similar to AlternativeTo and SaaSHub. We are mainly if you are not connected to the Alternative dashboard. In the offline version, the search results are presented as a list. Moreover, softwares are added by the community.

Nevertheless there are differences!

When using Alternative without sign in, we differ by :

- search filters that allow you to build your requirements

- a display of search results by similarity index

When using Alternative with sign in, we differ by :

- more advanced comparison tools

- more data in the software file

- a space to share your stacks and argue about about its

- a semi-automated filling of the form to add a software

These differences are the result of a vision oriented search engine more than data directory. We hope that with the craze that could be around this project we will build indexing robots specialized in the discovery and revalidation of data.

It seems ambitious but, we target to be more exhaustive than AlternativeTo and SaaSHub. That's why we combined crowdsourcing and robots.

Did I answer your question ?