Running AI agents for real work — not demos — means answering questions that no single agent tool addresses: Who is this agent working for? What is it allowed to spend? Who approves its decisions? Where do I see what it is doing? What happens when it hits its limit? These are...
Most task managers are either too simple (a plain todo list) or too complex (a project management suite that requires onboarding). Tududi sits in the middle: a hierarchical GTD-inspired system with Areas containing Projects containing Tasks and Notes, smart recurring tasks, Telegram quick-capture, CalDAV sync, OIDC/SSO, and...
Notion stores everything on their servers. Obsidian sync costs $8/month. Roam Research is $15/month. Most PKM tools make you choose between convenience and data ownership. SiYuan does not. Block-level editing, bidirectional links, spaced repetition, relational database, AI writing, Docker deployment, E2EE sync. Local storage free forever. 45,...
Semrush is $140/month. Ahrefs is $129/month. Both are built for agencies managing dozens of clients. For a developer running a handful of sites, you pay for features you will never touch. OpenSEO is the exit: pay-as-you-go SEO tooling via your own DataForSEO API key, modern...
Google Analytics 4 is free in the same way Gmail is free - you get the tool, Google gets the behavioral data of everyone who visits your site. In several EU jurisdictions this transfer has already been ruled non-compliant. Umami is the simplest exit: a single tracking script, no cookies,...
You check a product page to see if it's back in stock. You bookmark a government site to catch when the rules change. You manually revisit a competitor's pricing page every Monday. All of this is a solved problem: changedetection.io watches those pages for you...
Google Photos puts your entire photo library on Google's servers to feed the same ad ecosystem as everything else. Immich is the exit: automatic backup to your own server, facial recognition, semantic search, albums, sharing. 106,000+ GitHub stars, AGPL-3.0, v3.0.0 (July 2026). The...
Google killed desktop Timeline. Dawarich is the exit: import your Google Takeout history, run it on your own server. 9,000+ GitHub stars, open source, Docker, self-hosted free with all Pro features. What Dawarich is Dawarich (dawarich.app) is a self-hosted private location history tracker. Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis....
purplemux is a web-native dashboard for Claude Code and Codex sessions — see all your parallel AI sessions on one screen, get push notifications when a task finishes or needs input, access from mobile via PWA, and keep sessions alive with persistent tmux. MIT, one command to install.