Twake – open-source Google Workspace alternative

21•Faelian2•3h ago

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skeptrune•3h ago

I'm glad that people are working on this, but not sure I get why this needs to be one unified suite of software. IMO, it would be more productive to focus on a single one of the apps and make that good before doing them all at once.

nine_k•3h ago

These are actually separate apps, possibly they can work standalone.

But the idea is to offer a suite, much like Google's, with all familiar tools present and integrated by the common auth / account system. I bet this is geared towards selling the services to governmental bodies and some privacy-conscious businesses, RedHat-style. To do that successfully, you have to check certain boxes.

The breadth is quite impressive, honestly.

snozolli•2h ago

Because managers like to hear things like "suite" and "turnkey solution". Normal people don't want to assemble their own solution from disparate parts.

awinter-py•3h ago

not having investigated this tool, I'll say that the key thing for 'open alternatives' is simplicity of hosting, + many tools have failed me in the past

thinking specifically of immich + simplenotes, which have complex docker compose stacks, and at least immich requires a lot of TLC to keep the backend in sync with the frontend. fail at this and your images will not sync.

(and I am not knocking it, I use it + love it)

these apps are in a sense featureful, with ML indexing and other search features, but in a sense just auth wrappers on file storage; hosting them they should, somehow, be simpler than it is

gespadas•3h ago

I tried to sign-up... the SMS code never arrived.

frizlab•7m ago

I was told I requested the sign-up code too fast. IMHO they’re receiving too many signups at once and they’re being rate-limited by their SMS provider…

ranger_danger•3h ago

Only the source for the Drive component seems to be available...

happymellon•2h ago

They do appear to link to the wrong project.

https://github.com/linagora/twake-workplace

karambahh•2h ago

This tool is made by the french OSS company Linagora, active in that space for more than 20 years.

They mostly likely have thousands of users running on corporate or state platforms so it's not a "one off project" supported by a couple individuals, it's an actual stack with probably a large dev team.

However, Linagora has been entangled in a legal battle for 10 years with former employees that founded BlueMind[0], a competing offer. Latest episode in the saga appears to be "back to square one" with the legal case coming back to a fresh start based on complex legal issues [1]

[0]https://www.bluemind.net/

[1]https://www.zdnet.fr/blogs/l-esprit-libre/blue-mind-linagora...

hoistbypetard•2h ago

Notes:

* For something pitching itself as open source, the source is hard to find. And I couldn't find any source for the server components, though I admint the site is obtuse enough that I may have simply given up looking.

* I don't see any documentation on self-hosting so far.

* I don't see any documentation of their pricing for their hosted service.

This all combines to make it nigh-impossible to evaluate. I hope it turns into what the headline says it is, but I don't see a way to assess that just yet.

happymellon•2h ago

The link submitted has "Get On Github" right up front.

The github link has the third line in the readme say "run in docker".

It appears to be a suite and the github link only takes you to their drive alternative, so you have to go up a level to see the other projects. It could be better, but it wasn't completely terrible.

hoistbypetard•2h ago

I found the drive one from that link, and I found the email one from going up a level. I couldn't find the rest. And the drive and email ones just looked like client components, but maybe I missed something.

anonym29•2h ago

Absolutely hilarious that they advertise themselves as "privacy first", while demanding a phone number (with no alternative) to even create an account.