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An open-source API development ecosystem for testing HTTP, WebSocket, GraphQL, and other APIs with real-time collaboration.
An open-source, fullstack Next.js framework that provides a TypeScript backend and admin panel, usable as a headless CMS or for building applications.
A privacy-focused, open-source note-taking app with end-to-end encrypted sync across all major platforms.
An open-source API development ecosystem for testing HTTP, WebSocket, GraphQL, and other APIs with real-time collaboration.
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A PostgreSQL-compatible, cloud-native distributed SQL database for mission-critical applications requiring scalability and high availability.
Fast and simple OCR library for iOS/macOS using neural networks, optimized for short alphanumeric codes.
An open-source, self-hosted ML experiment tracker with a performant UI and SDK for comparing and querying training runs.
A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows as code.
A high-performance Python graph library implemented in Rust for general-purpose graph algorithms.
An open-source AI memory tool that records your screen and audio locally, enabling search and automation agents based on your computer activity.
A JavaScript library for managing tournament brackets (round-robin, single/double elimination) with full logic and storage abstraction.
A macOS audio utility that automatically pauses music, controls per-app volumes, and records system audio.
A lightweight server-oriented template language for JavaScript that fetches and renders HTML safely, keeping apps dynamic and small.
A simple, fast, robust job/task queue for Node.js, backed by Redis, designed for short real-time jobs.
An open-source productivity launcher for quick application launching, web searches, file navigation, and calculations.
A self-hosted, open-source platform for file sync, sharing, and collaboration with calendar, contacts, mail, and video chat apps.
A next-generation plugin manager for zsh that manages plugins, commands, and themes from multiple sources with parallel installation and lazy loading.
A private messaging platform with no user identifiers, using disposable relay nodes for metadata protection.
A free, open-source Q/A social network where users ask and answer questions, similar to Formspring or ask.fm.
A free, open-source, cross-platform video editor built on the MLT multimedia framework.
A chainable interface for Swift's async/await that provides promise-like operations while using native language features.
A distributed storage system for object storage (S3), file systems, and Iceberg tables, optimized for billions of files with O(1) disk access.
A cloud-native, open source API gateway written in Go, supporting REST, GraphQL, TCP, and gRPC protocols.
A lightweight, fault-tolerant distributed relational database built on SQLite, designed for high availability with minimal operational effort.
A responsive CSS grid system built with CSS3 Flexbox for modern web layouts.
An open-source Q/A social network where users ask and answer questions publicly or anonymously.
An open-source visual regression testing tool for Storybook, Ladle, Histoire, and modern frontend applications.
A full-featured computer algebra system (CAS) written in pure Python for symbolic mathematics.
An interactive GNU/Linux application firewall that monitors and controls outbound network connections.
A unified tool that manages development tool versions, environment variables, and project tasks from a single configuration.
A fast and low overhead web framework for Node.js, focused on performance and developer experience.
A UI components library for building search interfaces with Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr, and MongoDB for React and Vue.
An open-source, all-in-one development platform providing backend infrastructure and web hosting for web, mobile, and AI applications.
A fast, safe, thread-friendly regular expression library with linear-time matching guarantees, designed for production use.
Open-source video conferencing platform with HD quality, content sharing, and end-to-end encryption for self-hosted or embedded meetings.
Node-RED packaged as an addon for Homematic CCU3 and RaspberryMatic, enabling visual smart home automation.
A web debugging proxy that captures and analyzes network traffic using the Chrome DevTools interface.
A pluggable linting utility for identifying and reporting patterns in JavaScript and ECMAScript code.
A glib-like cross-platform C library providing modules for streams, coroutines, containers, algorithms, and more to simplify C development.
A fast, local-first, reactive NoSQL database for JavaScript applications with realtime sync capabilities.