I’ve been running OpenAltFinder for almost 16 months now, and received quite a bit of positive feedback. The directory has also grown substantially. Over the last few months I’ve been receiving more and more submissions that were AI-assisted/vibe-coded.

Personally I’m a bit skeptical (both quality wise, and longevity wise), but I also want to give everyone a chance to showcase what they’ve build. I had already added an “AI-assisted” label, but right now the majority of submissions include that label.

To counter this, I decided to build an AI-free version of it over at: https://noai.openaltfinder.com/, inspired by duckduckgo.

  • Captain Beyond@linkage.ds8.zone
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    9 hours ago

    A running trend with these “open alternatives” sites is that they almost universally seem to have at least one proprietary “honorable mention” (either source available or straight up binary blobs). I haven’t been able to find one on this site, so that’s a win right there.