A list of W3OSS products. Local-first apps are the real winners here, but not everything needs to be lofi to be listed.

In general, claiming the title of "third wave" requires that a product tick at least half of these boxes:

• 🕹 - It Just Works
• ⏳ - It Works Forever
• 💾 - Local First
• 💹 - self-sufficient (somehow)
• ⭐️ - loved
• 🏆 - winning
• 🍷 - tasteful
• 💎 - beautiful
• 🦠 - simple, atomic
• 🔒 - secure (e2ee > e@r > https)
• ♻️ - sustainable (beyond financing)

• 💀 - awful UX
• 🤮 - ugly UI
• 📺 - feels old
• 🤬 - infuriating because (REASON)
• 💩 - broken license, code, or repo
• 💸 - sustainability problem
• 🍄 - codependent

• ✨ - why doesn't everyone use this
• 🌏 - federated protocol
• 🦋 - non-profit
• 🔒 - secure

• https://syncthing.net/ - Airdrop? DropBox? There aren't really competitors to this.

• https://bitwarden.com 💩 - 1Password, LastPass
• https://ente.io - Google Photos, Apple Photos
• https://ente.io/auth - Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator
• 🌏 https://mastodon.social - Twitter
• https://bsky.app - Twitter
• https://gitjournal.io - Obsidian
• 🦋 https://signal.org - WhatsApp, Telegram, LINE
• 🌏 https://element.io 💀🤮 - Slack
• https://cal.com - Calendly
• 🔒 https://proton.me 💩 - Google Suite
• https://excalidraw.com - Miro
• 🔒 https://tailscale.com - NordVPN? Cisco AnyConnect VPN?
• https://discourse.org/ - Slack, Mailing lists ... SharePoint?
• https://www.beeper.com/ - Pidgin? ha. No competitor.

• https://nextcloud.com 📺 - Google Suite, M365
• https://www.mumble.info 🤮📺 - Discord (voice chat)

• https://firefox.com 💸 - Chrome

• https://plausible.io - Google Analytics
• https://typesense.org - Algolia + pinecone.io
• https://neon.tech - RDS, Aurora
• https://min.io - S3
• https://supabase.com - Firebase

• https://frame.work - Dell, Apple
• https://oxide.computer - AWS, Azure, GCP, HP Proliant

• https://endatabas.com