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Formerly known as Postwoman, Hoppscotch burst onto the scene as a "free, fast, beautiful" API request builder that runs directly in your browser. It's remarkably lightweight and offers a slick, modern UI that appeals to many.
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Project mention: Ask HN: What are good high information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-08
I find the imgui UIs to be very high density (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui and the gallery issues) See for example the tracy profiler: https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy. It seems the game dev community has pretty powerful tools to understand and interrogate their work.
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Project mention: Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-25
the only data needed are the urls from https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/blob/master/she...
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1at9br4/i_am_new_to...
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Comprehensive Linux Command List
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ShareX
ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.
I made sure to document every step of the way via screenshots to ensure I could test enabling and disabling certain features. The screenshot tool I use on Windows is called, ShareX, and I find it extremely useful with regards to pointing out certain elements in an image.
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Another Redis Desktop Manager
🚀🚀🚀A faster, better and more stable Redis desktop manager [GUI client], compatible with Linux, Windows, Mac.
AnotherRedisDesktopManager
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SaaSHub
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Awesome Backend - A curated list of Docker resources and projects.
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For this modern shell alternative, you can check out this GitHub repository that features a collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives to common Unix commands.
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Project mention: Show HN: 100.st – Dev utilities I built for format conversions and encoding | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-07
https://github.com/CorentinTh/it-tools
What makes yours better?
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Your environment will have been setup to run your app via Air. You will need to customize Air in order to run PocketBase.
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HivisionIDPhotos
⚡️HivisionIDPhotos: a lightweight and efficient AI ID photos tools. 一个轻量级的AI证件照制作算法。
Project mention: HivisionIDPhotos: A lightweight and efficient AI ID photos tools | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-29 -
Project mention: Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-06
It's now https://github.com/eza-community/eza as from the readme
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DearPyGui
Dear PyGui: A fast and powerful Graphical User Interface Toolkit for Python with minimal dependencies
Project mention: Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with Built-In Realtime Visualizations | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-18Looks beautiful so congratulation for the launch.
Not sure if today this is enough though without any kind of AI chat assistant. Trae [0] is based on VSCode and Jetbrains Fleet are good looking as well. Visualization is definitely a big plus but there is also alternative like using rerun [1] and dearpygui [2] or some VSCode plugins (Python Image Preview, AREPL for Python)- might be hard to compete with those free alternatives on a subscription model IMHO but good luck!
[0] https://trae.ai/
[1] https://www.rerun.io/
[2] https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui
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distrobox
Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox
Project mention: Show HN: Box – a script-based interactive container manager | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-25 -
jsonhero-web
JSON Hero is an open-source, beautiful JSON explorer for the web that lets you browse, search and navigate your JSON files at speed. 🚀. Built with 💜 by the Trigger.dev team.
Project mention: Show HN: JSON For You – Visualize JSON in graph or table views | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-24i am using https://jsonhero.io/ for a time and happy with it. but i will definitely check this out too.
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SwiftGen
The Swift code generator for your assets, storyboards, Localizable.strings, … — Get rid of all String-based APIs!
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Gitbucket
A Git platform powered by Scala with easy installation, high extensibility & GitHub API compatibility
Project mention: Go's old $GOPATH story for development and dependencies | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-24Yeah, I'm actually doing that with Gitea: https://about.gitea.com/
Some people went with the forgejo fork: https://forgejo.org/ though Gitea itself was a fork of Gogs, if I remember correctly: https://gogs.io/
I also ran GitLab in the past: https://about.gitlab.com/ but keeping it updated and giving it enough resources for it to be happy was troublesome.
There's also GitBucket: https://gitbucket.github.io/ and some other platforms, though those tend to be a little bit more niche.
Either way, there's lots of nice options out there, albeit I'd still have to admit that just using GitHub or cloud GitLab version would be easier for most folks. Convenience and all.
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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 Tool projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hoppscotch | 71,555 |
| 2 | imgui | 65,267 |
| 3 | sherlock | 64,276 |
| 4 | Awesome-Design-Tools | 36,009 |
| 5 | linux-command | 33,264 |
| 6 | ShareX | 32,273 |
| 7 | Another Redis Desktop Manager | 32,226 |
| 8 | awesome-docker | 32,152 |
| 9 | modern-unix | 31,909 |
| 10 | it-tools | 29,657 |
| 11 | Awesome-Linux-Software | 23,255 |
| 12 | air | 20,321 |
| 13 | DoraemonKit | 20,311 |
| 14 | HivisionIDPhotos | 15,754 |
| 15 | eza | 15,274 |
| 16 | infer | 15,201 |
| 17 | DearPyGui | 14,156 |
| 18 | awesome-chatgpt-zh | 11,128 |
| 19 | distrobox | 10,830 |
| 20 | jsonhero-web | 9,979 |
| 21 | SwiftGen | 9,411 |
| 22 | Gitbucket | 9,246 |
| 23 | YARP | 9,000 |
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