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Hi, Product Hunt!
I’ve been building indie products for the past couple of years, and one challenge kept repeating — finding affordable or self-hosted alternatives to expensive tools that either didn’t support my country or were simply overkill for small teams.
Every time I started a new project, I’d lose hours searching for alternatives on Reddit, Twitter, or random blogs. Most “alternative” websites had outdated databases, poor UX, or irrelevant results.
That’s what inspired me to build AlterBase — a curated and community-driven directory where makers can find and share indie-friendly alternatives that actually work.
During the process, I realized this isn’t just a list problem but a discovery problem. So instead of automating everything, I focused on manual curation, clean design, and transparency — something that grows with the community rather than decaying over time.
Today, we are launching Product Reviews by AlterBase. No, you can request your product's review on fastest growing alternative software platform on internet.
Always end up with 10 tabs open when comparing tools. This looks like a cleaner way to peek at pricing/features. Curious how deep it goes for niche stuff. Tossing my own tool in later. Bookmarking for the next “Notion vs. Coda” spiral.
@osakasaul Thanks for your feedback, Saul! This is what I needed. I'll be improving the search function in the next update. Just waiting for the number of products on the platform to increase.
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Congrats on the launch! Manual curation is such an underrated superpower, most alternative sites feel abandoned. Will you let makers update their own listings, or will submissions stay fully curated on your side?
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The website is designed well but the "Online user" counter is just a random number generator. It Fluctuates extremely after each page refresh.
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Kanba
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Always end up with 10 tabs open when comparing tools. This looks like a cleaner way to peek at pricing/features. Curious how deep it goes for niche stuff. Tossing my own tool in later. Bookmarking for the next “Notion vs. Coda” spiral.
Kanba
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Okay, tried it, work on search. Really must nail that.
Kanba
@osakasaul Thanks for your feedback, Saul! This is what I needed. I'll be improving the search function in the next update. Just waiting for the number of products on the platform to increase.
Congrats on the launch! Manual curation is such an underrated superpower, most alternative sites feel abandoned.
Will you let makers update their own listings, or will submissions stay fully curated on your side?
The website is designed well but the "Online user" counter is just a random number generator. It Fluctuates extremely after each page refresh.