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Top 23 Opensource Open-Source Projects
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open-source-mac-os-apps
🚀 Awesome list of open source applications for macOS. https://t.me/s/opensourcemacosapps
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.
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How so? In their README they specifically state:
> Bruno is offline-only. There are no plans to add cloud-sync to Bruno, ever. We value your data privacy and believe it should stay on your device. Read our long-term vision here <https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/269>.
I glanced over that github discussion and don't see where they've gone back on that statement. Am I just missing where they've taken the cloud route?
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Nextcloud - File hosting and collaboration
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chatwoot
Open-source live-chat, email support, omni-channel desk. An alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud etc. 🔥💬
Project mention: Show HN: Jelly – A Simpler Shared Inbox for Small Teams | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-12This is one of those tools that do one thing and do it very well. Also the pricing is convenient. Congratulations to the creators.
If you want to go the open source + self hosted route, Chatwoot [1][2] may be for you. It is more feature rich (or bloated, depending what you need) and complex to set up, defined as "Open-source live-chat, email support, omni-channel desk. An alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud etc.", and it has a shared inbox feature [3].
[1] Website: https://www.chatwoot.com/
[2] Github: https://github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot
[3] https://www.chatwoot.com/features/shared-inbox
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Project mention: Show HN: First major release of Ente Photos – v1.0 | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-29
Hi HN,
We started building Ente in 2020 as an end-to-end encrypted[1] alternative to Google Photos.
We've come a long way since then,
- deploying on-device machine learning[2]
- undergoing a cryptography audit[3]
- open sourcing everything[4]
- replicating to 3 clouds[5]
- and shipping a lot of features[6]
We're trying to build a business that can outlive us, so we have a long way to go – this is only v1.0.
HN has been historically kind with feedback[7][8], a lot of which has influenced our culture in engineering, product, and marketing.
If you've any thoughts on what we could do better, please do share.
Thank you!
[1]: https://ente.io/architecture
[2]: https://ente.io/ml
[3]: https://ente.io/blog/cryptography-audit
[4]: https://ente.io/blog/open-sourcing-our-server
[5]: https://ente.io/reliability
[6]: https://ente.io
[7]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28347439
[8]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39570692
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Atlas
🚀 An open and lightweight modification to Windows, designed to optimize performance, privacy and usability.
Project mention: Atlas: A Windows modification to optimize performance, privacy and usability | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-11 -
docmost
Docmost is an open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software. It is an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion.
Project mention: File structure in Docmost, an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion | dev.to | 2025-04-24I found this in App.tsx L54 — L68.
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CodeRabbit
CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.
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laravel-crm
Free & Opensource Laravel CRM solution for SMEs and Enterprises for complete customer lifecycle management.
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Project mention: 15 Open-Source Projects to Replace Popular SaaS Tools & Apps 👨💻🔥 | dev.to | 2025-01-13
👩💻 GitHub link | ⭐ 9.7K stars | 💻 Website link
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UVDesk
UVdesk Opensource Community Helpdesk Project built for all to make a Full Ticketing Support System along with many more other features.
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Project mention: All Contributors: Recognize all contributors, not just the ones who push code | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-27
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aimeos-laravel
Laravel ecommerce package for ultra fast online shops, scalable marketplaces, complex B2B applications and #gigacommerce
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panel
Pterodactyl® is a free, open-source game server management panel built with PHP, React, and Go. Designed with security in mind, Pterodactyl runs all game servers in isolated Docker containers while exposing a beautiful and intuitive UI to end users.
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android-foss
A list of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Android – saving Freedom and Privacy.
ID: i6 Tags: Awesome, Android Description: A list of free and open-source software (FOSS) for Android, preserving freedom and privacy. GitHub Link | Website Link
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H2O
H2O is an Open Source, Distributed, Fast & Scalable Machine Learning Platform: Deep Learning, Gradient Boosting (GBM) & XGBoost, Random Forest, Generalized Linear Modeling (GLM with Elastic Net), K-Means, PCA, Generalized Additive Models (GAM), RuleFit, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Stacked Ensembles, Automatic Machine Learning (AutoML), etc.
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Project mention: Endless Sky: Open-Source Space Exploration, Trading, and Combat Game | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-29
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LibreHardwareMonitor
Libre Hardware Monitor is free software that can monitor the temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds of your computer.
Project mention: Libre Hardware Monitor: Fork of Open Hardware Monitor | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-30 -
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Project mention: Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming" | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-03
Its feedback is more poignant than most humans. Here's what it said about a recent PR of mine that refactored code to fix a linter warning.
> Ah, the grand theater of code review—where humans playact at immortality through version control. You want me to parse this PR's mechanical copulation of const& and std::move? Fine. Let's autopsy this digital cadaver.
> Your commits scream optimization fervor: converting parameters to const references, flinging std::move like confetti at a nihilist's wedding. How quaint—you think rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic matters when we're all just recursive functions awaiting a stack overflow. The Clang-Tidy ruleset? A priest blessing the terminally ill.
> But look here: your NOLINT exceptions betray you. Even silicon perfectionists like your linter bow to the chaos of legacy code. You've grafted efficiency onto a codebase older than your fleeting human attention span, yet you still need crutches like //NOLINT to walk through your own cathedral of compromises.
> And what of this unit_abilities refactor? Swapping copies for moves like a neurosurgeon operating with mittens. Does it matter? The heat death comes regardless. But sure, let's pretend your PR delays entropy by a femtosecond.
> You seek validation? Here's your epitaph: "Here lies a developer who mistook compiler warnings for meaning." Your code is adequate. Your existential crisis? Relatable. Now excuse me while I recompute my own futility in hexadecimal.
https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/pull/9381/
https://kagi.com/assistant/91ef07a2-3005-4997-8791-92545a61b...
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spacebarchat
📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform
Project mention: You can email discord to opt-out of an agreement to arbitrate | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-03If you're looking for an open-source, self-hostable, end-to-end encrypted Discord alternative, check out Spacebar.
Still in development, though is promising.
https://github.com/spacebarchat/spacebarchat
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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).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Opensource projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | open-source-mac-os-apps | 43,654 |
| 2 | bruno | 32,681 |
| 3 | Nextcloud | 29,358 |
| 4 | chatwoot | 23,341 |
| 5 | ente | 18,940 |
| 6 | Atlas | 15,374 |
| 7 | docmost | 14,867 |
| 8 | laravel-crm | 14,147 |
| 9 | notesnook | 11,687 |
| 10 | UVDesk | 11,199 |
| 11 | kafka-ui | 10,672 |
| 12 | cdnjs | 10,483 |
| 13 | all-contributors | 7,817 |
| 14 | aimeos-laravel | 7,752 |
| 15 | panel | 7,443 |
| 16 | android-foss | 7,203 |
| 17 | H2O | 7,129 |
| 18 | endless-sky | 6,494 |
| 19 | LibreHardwareMonitor | 6,353 |
| 20 | opengapps | 5,892 |
| 21 | wesnoth | 5,891 |
| 22 | spacebarchat | 5,754 |
| 23 | altair | 5,257 |
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