Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- React


All the tools, services and so on that we use when we develop AlternativeTo. AlternativeTo is built with Next.JS and .Net Core and is hosted on Azure with a SQL backend. We do use a lot of other services as well and you can read all about them below.




We use loads of different packages of course but React Hook Form is one of the main ones. Used to build forms in React.
















Like most other software developers nowdays we use GIT as our source control system and we host our code on GitHub. We also use their issue system to associate bugs with commits and so on.






Thunder Client is a hand-crafted lightweight Http Client extension for Visual Studio Code. No separate download needed, Just install the extension from VS Code marketplace.






Unified Web Performance that automatically tests your pages and tracks real user experiences. Automatically discovers your busiest pages and scans them weekly, providing actionable recommendations. Integrated Real User Monitoring to track the actual experience of visitors to...































We spend a lot of time trying to understand how the site works and how our users engage with the site, and we do most of that digging in Google Analytics.





AlternativeTo is a distributed team and since not two single people are based in the same city, this is our digital office.















A lot of blog posts, plans and other long.form texts have been typed up in this application, either on Mac OS X or on iOS.













