Build or Bill

Social media

Realtime alternatives

1 open-source project that already does this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

qeeqbox/social-analyzer23,764AGPL-3.0Web app and API that analyzes and locates people's profiles across many social networks.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

  • Scale, uptime SLAs and CDN optimizations of a hosted service
  • Curated featured-profiles and sponsorship/marketing reach
  • A pre-built polished UI, branding, and convenience of a hosted dashboard
  • Any non-public integrations or data the vendor may hold

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Realtime, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.