Dev Open-Sources Postiz-cheap to Challenge Subscription Scheduling Tools

Developer Anil Matcha (aka matchaman11) has released the open-source project Postiz-cheap, taking direct aim at the subscription pricing of the social media scheduling tool Postiz. According to him, Postiz charges $29–99 per month with per-account pricing, meaning many users end up paying $1,188 a year just for content scheduling. Postiz-cheap, by contrast, requires no subscription, no lock-in, and no account limits—you only pay for what you actually use, at just a few cents per post. The project has already drawn attention since launch (the post mentions a Star count starting with 1, though the exact figure isn't fully given). Confirmed - Postiz-cheap is open source and uses pay-per-use pricing (a few cents per post) with no account limits - The author has spelled out the licensing terms: the code is open source, free for personal use, and may even be repackaged, renamed, and resold with no restrictions - matchaman11 also shared the GitHub repo awesome-open-source-saas-alternatives, a curated list of open-source alternatives to paid SaaS products like Notion, Slack, Auth0, and Vercel, with license and Star counts noted Why It Matters - For indie developers, Postiz-cheap is a ready-made commercialization example that can be picked up and resold as-is, illustrating one way open-source software can be monetized - matchaman11 frames it within a bigger narrative: he believes AI has slashed the cost of cloning apps and that the 'SaaS apocalypse' is coming, citing examples like marclou turning Beehiiv into a free version and surendrapandar open-sourcing Datafast, a free web analytics tool (open source, 2-minute deployment, $0 cost). Whether or not that judgment holds, the pressure of open-source + AI clones on subscription SaaS has become a hot topic in the developer community

2026-10-25 ~ 2026-10-26 · 5 related posts

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