Ask HN: What project do you donate to?

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SurveyJS - JavaScript Form Builder with No-Code UI & Built-In JSON Schema Editor
Keep full control over the data you collect and tailor the form builder’s entire look and feel to your users’ needs. SurveyJS works with React, Angular, Vue 3, and is compatible with any backend or auth system. Learn more.
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InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads
InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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  1. HomeBrew

    🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

  2. SurveyJS

    JavaScript Form Builder with No-Code UI & Built-In JSON Schema Editor. Keep full control over the data you collect and tailor the form builder’s entire look and feel to your users’ needs. SurveyJS works with React, Angular, Vue 3, and is compatible with any backend or auth system. Learn more.

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  3. min

    A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

    My first donations were for daily-driver productivity tools: Min browser (https://github.com/minbrowser/min) and fman (https://fman.io/)

  4. nodezator

    A generalist Python node editor

    A guy in Brazil who coded up:

    https://nodezator.com/

    because it was the first Python node editor which "just worked" out of the box when I tried to run it.

    Based on a game dev system which was called Indie Python, the main site is now at:

    https://indiesmiths.com/

    I kick in to Wikipedia via Microsoft Rewards points whenever they are matching points, or if I have a surplus of Amazon gift card money 'cause there haven't been any Kindle book sales I bought into for a while.

  5. tridactyl

    A Vim-like interface for Firefox, inspired by Vimperator/Pentadactyl.

  6. yabridge

    A modern and transparent way to use Windows VST2, VST3 and CLAP plugins on Linux

    I donated to https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge once. Invaluable for working with Wine-compatible VSTs on Linux.

  7. LocalMaterialNotes

    Simple, local, material design notes

  8. Tab-Session-Manager

    WebExtensions for restoring and saving window / tab states

    Below I’m listing some of the projects I donate to:

    DownThemAll, a browser extension that makes multiple simultaneous downloads from a page easy: https://www.downthemall.org/howto/donate/

    Free Software Foundation (FSF): https://www.fsf.org/about/ways-to-donate

    LibreOffice: https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/

    Mozilla Thunderbird: https://give.thunderbird.net/

    Soundswitch (Windows application to switch default playback devices and/or recording devices using simple hotkeys): https://soundswitch.aaflalo.me/

    Tab Session Manager browser extension: https://tab-session-manager.sienori.com/

    VLC media player: https://www.videolan.org/contribute.html

  9. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  10. SoundSwitch

    C# application to switch default playing device. Download: https://soundswitch.aaflalo.me/

    Below I’m listing some of the projects I donate to:

    DownThemAll, a browser extension that makes multiple simultaneous downloads from a page easy: https://www.downthemall.org/howto/donate/

    Free Software Foundation (FSF): https://www.fsf.org/about/ways-to-donate

    LibreOffice: https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/

    Mozilla Thunderbird: https://give.thunderbird.net/

    Soundswitch (Windows application to switch default playback devices and/or recording devices using simple hotkeys): https://soundswitch.aaflalo.me/

    Tab Session Manager browser extension: https://tab-session-manager.sienori.com/

    VLC media player: https://www.videolan.org/contribute.html

  11. beszel

    Lightweight server monitoring hub with historical data, docker stats, and alerts.

  12. immich

    High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.

  13. restic

    Fast, secure, efficient backup program

  14. ente

    🔒 End-to-end encrypted cloud for photos, videos and 2FA secrets.

    # The ones I support by paying for one of its services bust mostly because its FOSS app:

    - https://vorta.borgbase.com

    - http://ente.io (But sadly not for long; because I really can't stand a non-native "photos" app. I just can't! Otherwise it's a great service!)

  15. actual

    A local-first personal finance app

  16. coolify

    An open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative.

    It's great to have easily self hosted alternative for variety of services

    https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify

  17. stemroller

    Isolate vocals, drums, bass, and other instrumental stems from any song

    Not regularly, but I have donated to:

    FreeFileSync, an excellent file sync utility within a network.

    https://freefilesync.org/

    StemRoller, separate stems (e.g., voice) from songs.

    https://www.stemroller.com/

    John's Background Switcher, shuffle wallpapers from various sources

    https://johnsad.ventures/software/backgroundswitcher/

    Wikipedia Foundation

    Etc.

  18. SponsorBlock

    Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension)

  19. Pi-hole

    A black hole for Internet advertisements

  20. liberapay.com

    Source code of the recurrent donations platform Liberapay

  21. ESLint

    Find and fix problems in your JavaScript code.

  22. serverless-chrome

    🌐 Run headless Chrome/Chromium on AWS Lambda

    - Serverless Chrome https://github.com/adieuadieu/serverless-chrome

    With that said we are looking at a new corporate structure for my business to increase the way we give back

  23. core

    🖖 Vue.js is a progressive, incrementally-adoptable JavaScript framework for building UI on the web. (by vuejs)

  24. lume

    🔥 Static site generator for Deno 🦕 (by lumeland)

  25. quran.com-frontend-next

    Frontend build on next.js

    Great question!

    In the past I contributed to rust-analyzer - not much but something huge but at least something.

    Nowadays I only contribute to https://quran.com.

    Apologies if this ain't clear but I'll give it a shot.

    I will donate to anyone, be it a group or one person if they can get all the different ways of reading رواية The Quran:

    1. In static digital version, i.e., as PDFs or what have you in the Saudi script.

  26. Stream

    Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

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