Happy New Year! This is Jonathan from OpenSourceAlternativeTo. I hope you had a great start to 2024. 

Two of my New Year resolutions are to give back more to the open source community and to get into a continuous writing habit again. So I thought, why not combine it and revive this newsletter?

But let’s do a quick recap.

This newsletter started with opensourcealternative.to - which quickly became the most popular directory for finding open source alternatives to SaaS. Since its start in 2022, the page had over 1.3 million unique visitors. 😳

Around 10,000 open source enthusiasts signed up for this newsletter, and I tried to send updates once per month - sometimes I failed.

This is going to change in 2024. I’m super excited to bring fresh open source updates to your inbox and contribute my small part in accelerating the open source movement.

I plan to send you a weekly update about:

I’m always curious: What would you like to read about open source in 2024?Please feel free to hit reply and let me know if you have any input.

Here comes the first edition of Open Source Pioneers. 👇

🔍 Spotlight: OpenStatus

OpenStatus is the open source monitoring platform that lets you monitor your endpoints from all over the world. The project was started in 2023 but already supports monitoring from all continents and for pretty much all endpoints (API, DNS, domain, SSL, SMTP, ping, webpages, etc). The best thing? You can set up a beautiful status page with no effort and let your customers know whenever there is downtime.

Learn more about OpenStatus: Website | GitHub | X

🦄 Open source startup radar

💼 Work in open source

Not a good fit? Check out more opportunities at Trueup or ossjobs.dev.

I would love to hear from you. What did you like or didn’t like about this newsletter? Which content would be relevant for you?

Until next week,

Jonathan (@jonathimer)