.NET is often seen as corporate and boring – What are some interesting/cool/unique projects and people?

• Jellyfin

  1,034 29,579 9.9 C#

  The Free Software Media System

  

Not really unique but I think it's cool/interesting: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin. If you're familiar with Plex at all it's basically that. The backend is all .NET and they have a demo on their site you can check out https://demo.jellyfin.org/stable/web/index.html.

• spacetime

  6 56 3.3 C#

  A fully featured cross-platform API Client for REST, gRPC, and more. Built with .NET MAUI Blazor (by getspacetime)

  

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  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.

  

• lively

  281 13,819 8.0 C#

  Free and open-source software that allows users to set animated desktop wallpapers and screensavers powered by WinUI 3.

• taskvault-native

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• Procedural

  1 2 4.1 C#

• reko

  9 1,959 9.6 C#

  Reko is a binary decompiler.

• Bitwarden

  1,055 14,286 9.8 C#

  The core infrastructure backend (API, database, Docker, etc). (by bitwarden)

  

Bitwarden server is in. Net https://github.com/bitwarden/server

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  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.

  

• PowerToys

  713 104,324 9.8 C#

  Windows system utilities to maximize productivity

  

microsoft / PowerToys - Really cool enhancments to windows

• dnSpy

  91 16,556 7.6 C#

dnSpy / dnSpy The best .NET reflector (and can debug compiled assemblies!!)

• SharpSploit

  1 1,672 0.0 C#

  SharpSploit is a .NET post-exploitation library written in C#

cobbr / SharpSploit - Exteamly powerful post-hack utility library

• Thrive

  110 2,580 9.9 C#

  The main repository for the development of the evolution game Thrive.

  

Revolutionary-Games / Thrive - Cool new evolution game

• Barotrauma

  85 1,608 7.7 C#

  A 2D online multiplayer game taking place in a submarine travelling through the icy depths of Jupiter's moon Europa.

  

Regalis11/Barotrauma - Multiplayer 2D game

• Sonarr

  438 9,957 9.9 C#

  Smart PVR for newsgroup and bittorrent users.

  

Sonarr / Sonarr - Automated TV torrent manager

• github-trending-repos

  6 2,614 4.7 HTML

  Track GitHub trending repositories in your favorite programming language by native GitHub notifications!

I found all of these over time with the awesome github trending repos subscription

• BizHawk

  37 2,002 9.7 C#

  BizHawk is a multi-system emulator written in C#. BizHawk provides nice features for casual gamers such as full screen, and joypad support in addition to full rerecording and debugging tools for all system cores.

  

• Playnite

  680 8,232 8.6 C#

  Video game library manager with support for wide range of 3rd party libraries and game emulation support, providing one unified interface for your games.

https://github.com/JosefNemec/Playnite Open source game library manager that I use daily

• Stride Game Engine

  23 6,178 9.5 C#

  Stride Game Engine (formerly Xenko)

  

• OpenRA

  256 14,118 9.6 C#

  Open Source real-time strategy game engine for early Westwood games such as Command & Conquer: Red Alert written in C# using SDL and OpenGL. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X.

  

Nice, and obviously their site is openra.net

• Kavita

  206 5,065 9.8 C#

  Kavita is a fast, feature rich, cross platform reading server. Built with the goal of being a full solution for all your reading needs. Setup your own server and share your reading collection with your friends and family.

  

• Echo

  1 15 7.8 C#

  An awesome ray traced 3D renderer build in C# from scratch! (by GaryHuan9)

I'm making a path tracer in C#/.NET from scratch :) https://github.com/GaryHuan9/Echo

• OpenTabletDriver

  247 2,473 9.2 C#

  Open source, cross-platform, user-mode tablet driver

  

OpenTabletDriver (universal graphics tablet driver with nanoseconds of latency) https://github.com/OpenTabletDriver/OpenTabletDriver

• dnSpy

  2 186 0.0 C#

  .NET debugger and assembly editor (by dnSpyRevived)

  

Unfortunately dnSpy was archived by the main author a while back out of the blue. There's an attempt to revive it at https://github.com/dnSpyRevived/dnSpy. I've general use JetBrains dotPeek now, which is a shame because I feel dnSpy was better and more performant.

• UnrealCLR

  37 3,043 2.6 C#

  Unreal Engine .NET 6 integration

UnrealCLR is a plugin which natively integrates .NET host into the Unreal Engine https://github.com/nxrighthere/UnrealCLR Gaming is creative/artistic right? Unity, Godot, MonoGame, Cryengine etc. all have native cores and have C# available for scripting.

• Jint

  24 3,910 9.1 C#

  Javascript Interpreter for .NET

Jint is the Javascript interpreter for .NET https://github.com/sebastienros/jint Using this at work, makes it very easy to add scripting to a project.

• Orleans

  35 9,821 9.1 C#

  Cloud Native application framework for .NET

  

Yup. https://github.com/dotnet/orleans/

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com sponsored

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

  

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