Reviews in OpenStreetMap, so that google maps can have a real competitor.
Its not FOSS, but I use to use foursquare for years because of how good it was at finding good restaurants / things to do in a new city. Now that its shut down, there's no real alternative that comes close.
Wish Linux on mobile was just as mature as on desktop.
A foss decentralized marketplace that costed very little or nothing at all to small stores to participate, to fight back against amazon and others
It would be nice to have the same, but for uber-like drivers
A federated internet archive, I'm wondering whether I should build it myself. With so many journalists being banned for reporting the gaza genocide we need more ways to combat censorship.
You can always check AlternativeTo for FOSS (and non-US based) software alternatives.
An open source 2D animation suite that can compete with Toon Boom Harmony. I bought an (expensive) perpetual license for Toon Boom Harmony years ago, and then they moved to a ridiculously overpriced monthly subscription model and deactivated my license, essentially ripping me off for hundreds of dollars. So ever since then I've wanted something to come along and put them out of business.
GarageBand. It's literally the only proprietary software that I prefer over open source DAWs.
Shouldout to LMMS, Audacity, etc. I appreciate and use these too. But GB makes things so easy...
I dream of a Bottom Up Logistics software that would enable us to thoughtfully connect and eventually scale grassroots resource sharing efforts. If Farmer Bertha had unsold crops she could list them. Communities in need of certain resources would indicate this. People could commit the use of their time, equipment, etc. The software would do the work of calculating efficient routes and assignments to get everything where it was needed.
My inspiration is the various pet rescue consortiums I’ve found in every city I’ve lived in. People crossing the country to pick up a single dog from rural alabama to bring it to a shelter in california. People pooling money to buy trucks specifically so volunteers can cart needy dogs around. They don’t use fancy logistics but they make it clear to me there’s a lot of uncaptured goodwill out there, and I think that given an organized way to engage, people would jump at the chance to participate in scaling a sharing economy based on empathy for our fellow creatures.
i wish cars had more of a conventional computer, more sensors, modular expansion, and completely open.
you would see some pretty cool shit.
I'd like a federated ecosystem for game mods that uses torrents for file downloads to reduce server load. Something to act as a safe haven in case NexusMods enshittifies. It'd also allow more diverse sets of rules through servers, so you could have versions of Nexus, LoversLab, etc. all sharing a framework instead of everything running smoothly for one and not the others.
Plus, NexusMods have really dropped the ball with regards to permissions. Their default permissions are set up so that if you're a mod author, other authors need to ask you for permission to use your mod as a dependency. Not just crediting you and linking to your mod, but asking permission beforehand. I don't see how anyone can look an that and not see it as insanely hypocritical
I want FOSS camera firmware so bad. imagine what we could do with them then! obviously that why it’s not foss…
software with 1:1 feature parity with Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop (except genAI crap)
A high-quality FOSS version of Reaper (DAW) that can use the expensive audio production plugins. Right now that's where all Linux DAWs run short - the best plugins are only for Windows, or for Cubase. Running them through some VSTi Linux wrapper never quite works correctly.
Maybe something like After Effects with all the plugins and tools. Right now the software itself exists in Kdenlive, just not all the addons people have written for After Effects.
But pretty much everything else I use is already FOSS.
An application that would make donating to FOSS projects, especially GPL-licensed works (or at least: those not trying to cater to corporations) in desperate need of support, effortless. In that: a periodic budget can be determined, time spent actively using applications is tracked, an application's userbase is taken into consideration (as their cumulative income may eat too much into budgets: possibly better spent supporting smaller projects), and personal preference can be given (including an option to filter license types); as to rank the applications based on perceived value, and fraction the budget accordingly.
I would be happy to support projects that I actively, or to a lesser degree, rely on. But the process of taking all steps required to support a project is simply too manual, and outright unmanageable, when trying to take into account all system components. I really want the incentives to shift from MIT to GPL, so that maintainers don't effectively end up being controlled by corporate paychecks; and are rather supported by individual end users. This should in theory make FOSS more resilient to any future restrictions to source access, which could hamper the long-term parity of forks, seeking to strip anti-features.
Something that could view and edit org files and connect to any/most cloud services
self hosted web archive that's flexible/robust enough (loading from multiple sources, auto scraping some site, search etc)
I wish there was an actually decent CRM that's very lightweight and doesn't limit on number of users when selfhosting. I didn't dig super deep into it myself but some folks I know where trying to help a non-profit get setup with something like this for the people the non-profit serves. The options were pretty sparse. Civicrm seemed ok but doesn't work like at all on mobile (it does have an ugly app).
I think they ultimately just built something basic on top of pocketbase but that's not something non-techy people could do easily.
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