SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives Learn more →
Top 23 awesome-list Open-Source Projects
-
Project mention: What Building Redis, Git and an LLM From Scratch Taught Us About Using Them | dev.to | 2026-10-05
There is a GitHub repository with about 550,000 stars called build-your-own-x. It is not a library. It is a curated catalog of step-by-step tutorials where people rebuild the technologies we all use daily: a SQLite clone in C, Redis in C++ or Python, a container in a hundred lines of Go, git from the inside, a vector search engine, even a small GPT. CC0 licensed, started by Daniel Stefanovic, maintained by CodeCrafters. The epigraph is Feynman: "What I cannot create, I do not understand." This post is about what happens to a team that takes that seriously.
-
AppSignal
AppSignal knows why the f*#k it crashed. Stop vibe-debugging. Every exception, every backtrace, grouped so you see patterns, not noise.
-
Free Marketing Audit Report
Brainito is an AI marketing OS with 300+ tools and an agent that runs them for you. Free to start.
Project mention: I Made a GitHub Action That Catches Broken Links Before They Reach Production | dev.to | 2026-03-07Last week I noticed something alarming: one of the most popular repos on GitHub — sindresorhus/awesome — had over 230 broken links. If a curated list maintained by thousands of contributors can't keep up with link rot, what chance does your README have?
-
awesome-selfhosted
A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
The awesome-selfhosted list is maintained on GitHub. Links on the GitHub version are sanitised like other user-generated links. But the rendered version on awesome-selfhosted.net is generated as the maintainers' own HTML, so those links do not inherit GitHub's attributes.
-
the-book-of-secret-knowledge
A collection of inspiring lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more.
-
Project mention: Completing a Computer Science Degree on Coursera | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-07-05
What do you think of something like this as an alrernative:
https://cs.ossu.dev/
(Free self-learning/paced/online CS curriculum)
-
Mentioned in Awesome Go
-
free-for-dev
A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev
-
SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
-
-
awesome-design-md
A collection of DESIGN.md files analysis by popular brand design systems. Drop one into your project and let coding agents generate a matching UI.
Open GitHub Trending today and count the layers. ECC sits at 245,643 stars — a harness optimizer that ships 277 skills and 67 agents across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and beyond. awesome-design-md holds 112,505 stars — a library of DESIGN.md files that let agents generate pixel-matched UI from brand specs. scientific-agent-skills has climbed to 41,399 stars — 165 validated skills covering biology, chemistry, medicine, and drug discovery, used by 190,000 scientists. And Orca rounds out the board at 59,072 stars — an Agent Development Environment that orchestrates fleets of 25+ coding agents in parallel worktrees.
-
awesome-mac
This project is dedicated to collecting high-quality macOS software and organizing them systematically by different categories for easy search and use.
Project mention: Awesome-mac: The GitHub Repo I Bookmark for Every Mac Setup (99.8K Stars) | dev.to | 2026-03-10Then you find awesome-mac — a GitHub repository with 99,800 stars, maintained by 460 developers, updated constantly, and every single app cross-checked by the community via pull requests.
-
-
-
-
A deeply-synthesized, opinionated reference distilled from five canonical sources: donnemartin/system-design-primer · ByteByteGoHq/system-design-101 · karanpratapsingh/system-design · ashishps1/awesome-system-design-resources · binhnguyennus/awesome-scalability
-
awesome-cpp
A curated list of awesome C++ (or C) frameworks, libraries, resources, and shiny things. Inspired by awesome-... stuff.
Project mention: Supply chain attacks are exploiting our assumptions | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-06> The C (or other "old" lang) programs typically have very few dependencies
Say what now? Have you ever worked on a project that uses C?
We were using dependencies in C in the 1980s.
Here's a more current list for C and C++: https://github.com/fffaraz/awesome-cpp
-
https://github.com/prakhar1989/awesome-courses?tab=readme-ov...
or even just "OPERATING SYSTEMS DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION" by Tanenbaum
-
awesome-nodejs
:zap: Delightful Node.js packages and resources [BECAUSE OF TOO MUCH SPAM AND LOW-QUALITY SUBMISSIONS, SUBMISSIONS ARE PAUSED TEMPORARILY]
-
awesome-flutter
An awesome list that curates the best Flutter libraries, tools, tutorials, articles and more.
-
-
awesome-claude-code
A hand-picked collection of the finest of resources for the most awesome of agents, Claude Code, the undisputed champion of coding companions, from the unstoppable team at Anthropic PBC. A delectable showcase of top tier skills, ambidextrous agents, scintillating status lines, top notch developer tooling, and also we have plugins
Project mention: Put your Coding Agents in Drive w/ Superpowers (aka How Superpowers is the Automatic Transmission of Agentic Coding) | dev.to | 2026-05-28The most downloaded and widely used methodology in the Claude Code ecosystem is Superpowers, with over 208k stars⭐️ and 18.5k forks🍴 on GitHub (and counting!)
-
awesome-openclaw-skills
The awesome collection of OpenClaw skills. 5,400+ skills filtered and categorized from the official OpenClaw Skills Registry.🦞
Project mention: OpenClaw outbound agents need deliverability checks before sending | dev.to | 2026-05-18https://check.live-direct-marketing.online https://developers.live-direct-marketing.online https://clawhub.ai/live-direct-marketing/ldm-openclaw-skill https://clawhub.ai/live-direct-marketing/ldm-openclaw-inbox-mcp-skill https://github.com/live-direct-marketing/ldm-openclaw-skill https://github.com/live-direct-marketing/ldm-openclaw-inbox-mcp-skill https://github.com/VoltAgent/awesome-openclaw-skills/pull/465
-
open-source-mac-os-apps
🚀 Awesome list of open source applications for macOS. https://t.me/s/opensourcemacosapps
-
awesome-remote-job
A curated list of awesome remote jobs and resources. Inspired by https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python
-
SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
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).
awesome-list discussion
awesome-list related posts
-
How to Stop an AI Agent Forgetting: Test the Whole Memory Loop
-
1 in 6 self-hosted AI apps ships a license GitHub can't classify
-
Insight: a pre-trade safety oracle API for AI agents — paid per call via x402 on Base
-
Codex, fix my home server. I want to watch a film.
-
ExplainDB: A Database System Built for Understandability
-
Develop and test locally: introducing Awesome Cloud Emulators
-
Deploying Ory Keto - Open-Source Permission and Access Control Server
-
A note from our sponsor - SaaSHub
www.saashub.com | 10 Oct 2026
Index
What are some of the best open-source awesome-list projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | build-your-own-x | 552,040 |
| 2 | Free Marketing Audit Report | 514,578 |
| 3 | awesome-selfhosted | 323,706 |
| 4 | the-book-of-secret-knowledge | 238,679 |
| 5 | computer-science | 209,785 |
| 6 | go-formatter | 186,800 |
| 7 | free-for-dev | 139,141 |
| 8 | 30-seconds-of-code | 129,316 |
| 9 | awesome-design-md | 120,034 |
| 10 | awesome-mac | 115,627 |
| 11 | Design Patterns | 94,754 |
| 12 | awesome-for-beginners | 89,999 |
| 13 | awesome-react | 74,793 |
| 14 | awesome-scalability | 74,615 |
| 15 | awesome-cpp | 73,696 |
| 16 | awesome-courses | 70,033 |
| 17 | awesome-nodejs | 67,035 |
| 18 | awesome-flutter | 61,446 |
| 19 | github-cheat-sheet | 57,895 |
| 20 | awesome-claude-code | 55,220 |
| 21 | awesome-openclaw-skills | 53,032 |
| 22 | open-source-mac-os-apps | 50,634 |
| 23 | awesome-remote-job | 49,305 |
Sponsored
AppSignal knows why the f*#k it crashed.
Stop vibe-debugging. Every exception, every backtrace, grouped so you see patterns, not noise.
www.appsignal.com