Give examples of really cool software made by a single developer?

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  • calibre

    The official source code repository for the calibre ebook manager

    Calibre Ebook Reader - it was initially started by Kovid Goyal. (now other people have joined him)

  • LookingGlass

    An extremely low latency KVMFR (KVM FrameRelay) implementation for guests with VGA PCI Passthrough.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • anki

    Anki's shared backend and web components, and the Qt frontend

    Anki, a spaced repetition flashcard learning application https://apps.ankiweb.net

  • pre-commit

    A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.

    Not exactly as high-stakes as some of the others in here, but Anthony Sottile wrote pre-commit and pre-commit.ci by himself and it’s one of the most useful tools in my arsenal because it triggers any number of code checks and stuff like that every time you do a big commit. I’ve got a number of his hooks installed as well as a linter, formatter, and type checker for my code, and it basically makes sure my code is of much higher quality.

  • bolt

  • Rack

    The virtual Eurorack studio (by VCVRack)

  • Lila

    Discontinued ♞ lichess.org: the forever free, adless and open source chess server ♞ [Moved to: https://github.com/lichess-org/lila] (by ornicar)

    lichess.org.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • CherryTree

    cherrytree

    But according to https://github.com/giuspen/cherrytree Cherrytree now has 57 contributors, so if it was made by only one single person (Giuseppe Penone) it must have been at an earlier state in the development process.

  • Git

    Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.

  • AixCrypt

    A Key Calculation Based Program For Data Confidentiality Over A Steganography-Like Technique Using The ROT Algorithm

  • rlpclib

    Library For Creating Local & Remote Procedure Calls Between Different Running Processes

  • LSATools

    Multiple Of Scripts Useful For System Administration In Linux Servers & Distributions, Driven By a Fast Easy-to-Use Menu Script

  • Cleny

    Cleny is An Interpreted Coding Language Used To Facilate UI Structuring And Styling For CLI Based Projects

    and the best one https://github.com/Mahmoud7Osman/Digle

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