<story><title>Micro-SaaS Alternatives to BigTech/VC</title><url>https://microfounder.com/alternatives</url><text>Hi HN&lt;p&gt;I started this crowdsourced list to find small internet products made by solo developers (or tiny teams) that can be used as alternatives to BigTech&amp;#x2F;VC-funded startups.&lt;p&gt;E.g. you can use Tally (by two devs, $14K MRR) instead of Typeform ($190M funding, 600+ employees)&lt;p&gt;or Plausible (by two devs, $83K MRR) instead of Google Analytics.&lt;p&gt;I added a link to a form where you can send me suggestions to alternatives, happy to add to the site!&lt;p&gt;Thanks,
Rauno</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>notlukesky</author><text>This would be a list by many buyers, especially in the enterprise, of companies to avoid. If you want to help the indie startup it is probably better to remove their revenue numbers. Most buyers are concerned if the product they invested in will be around in a couple of years.</text></comment>
<story><title>Micro-SaaS Alternatives to BigTech/VC</title><url>https://microfounder.com/alternatives</url><text>Hi HN&lt;p&gt;I started this crowdsourced list to find small internet products made by solo developers (or tiny teams) that can be used as alternatives to BigTech&amp;#x2F;VC-funded startups.&lt;p&gt;E.g. you can use Tally (by two devs, $14K MRR) instead of Typeform ($190M funding, 600+ employees)&lt;p&gt;or Plausible (by two devs, $83K MRR) instead of Google Analytics.&lt;p&gt;I added a link to a form where you can send me suggestions to alternatives, happy to add to the site!&lt;p&gt;Thanks,
Rauno</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>open-source-ux</author><text>Nice page! A small suggestion: use section or category names.&lt;p&gt;For example, instead of &amp;#x27;Buffer&amp;#x27;, the category or section could be called &amp;#x27;Social media tools&amp;#x27;. Same for the other sections e.g. &amp;#x27;Analytics&amp;#x27;, &amp;#x27;Cold email tools&amp;#x27;, and so on.&lt;p&gt;Also, Zendesk and Freshdesk are both in the same category of help desk software but are listed separated on the page.</text></comment>