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Top 8 Shell Make Projects

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  1. makesure

    Simple task/command runner with declarative goals and dependencies

  2. AppSignal

    Monitoring that respects your time & budget. APM, error tracking, and dashboards for modern web apps. Ten-minute setup, transparent flat pricing, and support from engineers who actually use the product.

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  3. dotfiles

    Personal dotfiles make using computers tolerable (by meribold)

  4. MakeMeFish

    Easing the usage of make and Makefiles

    Project mention: Show HN: MakeMe – A Makefile tool rewritten from Fish to Go | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-07

    Hi HN,

    A few years ago, I wrote a tool called MakeMeFish. MakeMeFish is a wrapper around fzf to list Makefile targets and show what they contain. I use MakeMeFish myself every day, it's a pretty simple tool but it has been immensely useful to me and many others.

    MakeMeFish is great, but only works in Fish shell. I've been planning a rewrite to support other shells for years, but hadn't gotten around to do it. We all know that AI tools are great at writing boilerplate python, js and java code, but struggle with novel and edge case code. When Gemini 2.5 was released, I used MakeMeFish as my foundation for trying out an AI assisted rewrite of a specialized tool. Short story, it went really well.

    I've also missed writing blog posts. We should do more of those. Especially ones handwritten ones. I took the opportunity to write about the conversion, link below.

    If you like and utilize fzf (Which you should), I truly think MakeMe can be a great starting point for writing fzf wrapper tools in general.

    I'd be delighted to hear if it's useful to you, and if you have any feedback :)

    Blog post: https://blog.oak.ninja/development/2026/01/02/makeme-a-cross...

    MakeMe: https://github.com/OakNinja/MakeMe

    MakeMeFish (Legacy version): https://github.com/OakNinja/MakeMeFish

  5. bake

    A Bash-based Make alternative. (by bash-bastion)

  6. doit.sh

    🏴‍☠️ Replaces your build system with 1 shell script.

  7. bmakelib

    A minimalist standard library for writing Makefiles.

    Project mention: No-Code Self-Documenting Makefiles | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-08-30

  8. scripts

    Scripts & snippets (by chimay)

  9. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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  10. duckdb.mk

    dbt-style reproducible data builds with DuckDB and Make

    Project mention: Show HN: Minimal dbt-style SQL builds with DuckDB and Make | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-09-26
NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Make projects in Shell? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 makesure 370
2 dotfiles 65
3 MakeMeFish 45
4 bake 35
5 doit.sh 22
6 bmakelib 16
7 scripts 14
8 duckdb.mk 1

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