Updated August 2026
    Dormant
    3.2k

    Slash: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    An open source, self-hosted bookmarks and link sharing platform.

    TL;DR • Slash • as of August 2026

    Slash is an open-source bookmarks and link sharing project, with 3.2k GitHub stars and a health score of 20/100. It committed 9 times in the last twelve months across 1 of those months, and its status is dormant. Licence: GPL-3.0. It does not currently meet the momentum threshold, so verify maintenance before depending on it.

    3.2k
    GitHub stars
    20/100
    Health score
    9
    Commits (12 mo)
    1/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Dormant — No meaningful commits for months.
    Last commit 2025-12-22
    Days since last commit 238
    Commits, last 3 months 0
    Commits, last 12 months 9
    Months with activity 1 of 12
    Last release 2024-02-06
    Archived No
    Licence GPL-3.0
    Category Bookmarks and Link Sharing

    Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.

    What the licence lets you do

    GPL-3.0

    Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.

    This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.

    What Slash means for your idea

    Slash is not currently shipping at a healthy pace. Popular but stalled projects inflate how competitive a category looks — and they are also risky to build on.

    Winnable, but differentiation is not optional. Pick one underserved segment and be visibly better for it rather than competing feature-for-feature with a free tool.

    Slash: common questions

    Is Slash still maintained in 2026?

    Dormant. Slash recorded 9 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 1 of those months and 0 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2025-12-22. Last release: 2024-02-06. No meaningful commits for months.

    Can I use Slash commercially?

    Slash is published under GPL-3.0. Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.

    How crowded is the Bookmarks and Link Sharing category?

    18 open-source implementations, 9 of them actively maintained, led by Karakeep at 28k stars. Saturation score 41/100 — Contested. Several maintained alternatives exist, but no one owns the category.

    Slash alternatives in Bookmarks and Link Sharing

    Karakeep

    Bookmarks and Link Sharing

    28k

    Bookmark-everything app with a touch of AI for the data hoarders out there.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    AGPL-3.0

    Shiori

    Bookmarks and Link Sharing

    12k

    Simple bookmark manager built with Go.

    Slowing down
    MIT

    linkding

    Bookmarks and Link Sharing

    11k

    Minimal bookmark management with a fast and clean UI. Simple installation through Docker and can run on your Raspberry Pi.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    MIT

    Buku

    Bookmarks and Link Sharing

    7.2k

    Powerful bookmark manager and a personal textual mini-web.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    GPL-3.0

    Shaarli

    Bookmarks and Link Sharing

    3.9k

    Personal, minimalist, super-fast, no-database bookmarking and link sharing platform.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    Zlib

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