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Top 23 Tool Open-Source Projects

  1. Hoppscotch

    Open source API development ecosystem.

    Project mention: Good Postman Alternatives? Here're My Top 15 | dev.to | 2025-05-09

    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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  3. imgui

    Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

    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.

  4. sherlock

    Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks

    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...

  5. Awesome-Design-Tools

    The best design tools and plugins for everything 👉

  6. linux-command

    Linux命令大全搜索工具,内容包含Linux命令手册、详解、学习、搜集。https://git.io/linux

    Project mention: Issue 007 -- Surviving the AI Era | dev.to | 2024-07-14

    Comprehensive Linux Command List

  7. 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.

    Project mention: Devlog: Hacktoberfest 2024 (2/4) | dev.to | 2024-10-11

    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.

  8. Another Redis Desktop Manager

    🚀🚀🚀A faster, better and more stable Redis desktop manager [GUI client], compatible with Linux, Windows, Mac.

    Project mention: Must-Have Software for macOS Developers in 2024 | dev.to | 2024-06-15

    AnotherRedisDesktopManager

  9. SaaSHub

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  10. awesome-docker

    :whale: A curated list of Docker resources and projects

    Project mention: Awesome List | dev.to | 2024-06-08

    Awesome Backend - A curated list of Docker resources and projects.

  11. modern-unix

    A collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives to common unix commands.

    Project mention: A new shell for using modern Unix commands | dev.to | 2025-01-15

    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.

  12. it-tools

    Collection of handy online tools for developers, with great UX.

    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?

  13. Awesome-Linux-Software

    🐧 A list of awesome Linux softwares

  14. air

    ☁️ Live reload for Go apps

    Project mention: PocketBase + Firebase Studio | dev.to | 2025-05-09

    Your environment will have been setup to run your app via Air. You will need to customize Air in order to run PocketBase.

  15. DoraemonKit

    一款面向泛前端产品研发全生命周期的效率平台。

  16. 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
  17. eza

    A modern alternative to ls

    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

  18. infer

    A static analyzer for Java, C, C++, and Objective-C

  19. 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 | 2025-02-18

    Looks 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

  20. awesome-chatgpt-zh

    ChatGPT 中文指南🔥,ChatGPT 中文调教指南,指令指南,应用开发指南,精选资源清单,更好的使用 chatGPT 让你的生产力 up up up! 🚀

  21. 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
  22. 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 | 2024-09-24

    i am using https://jsonhero.io/ for a time and happy with it. but i will definitely check this out too.

  23. SwiftGen

    The Swift code generator for your assets, storyboards, Localizable.strings, … — Get rid of all String-based APIs!

  24. 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 | 2024-05-24

    Yeah, 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.

  25. YARP

    A toolkit for developing high-performance HTTP reverse proxy applications.

    Project mention: Microsoft YARP: Yet Another Reverse Proxy | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-24
  26. SaaSHub

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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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