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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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An open-source learning management system (LMS) developed by Instructure for educational institutions and organizations.
Provides NixOS-like declarative services for Nix flakes, enabling reproducible development environments on macOS and Linux.
A clean, simple, and powerful web application for managing, importing, and organizing family recipes.
An open-source middleware platform for building high-performance, distributed transaction processing applications in C/C++ and other languages.
A modern JavaScript event calendar library with responsive design, internationalization, and framework-agnostic component injection.
A functional JavaScript utility library with lazy evaluation for optimal performance and memory efficiency.
A cross-platform desktop app for managing and monitoring Spring Boot applications via the Actuator API.
A self-hosted, Quora-like web application for private Q&A communities, built with Go.
An ultra-lightweight Python interpreter for microcontrollers, requiring only 4KB of RAM and zero dependencies.
A scalable, language-agnostic real-time messaging server for building chat apps, live features, and collaborative tools.
A command-line tool for launching Apache Spark clusters on AWS EC2 with fast, configurable deployments.
A desktop application for interactive computing with Jupyter notebooks, supporting multiple kernels and rich outputs.
A Swift library for macOS automation with mouse, keyboard control, screenshots, image recognition, and AI-powered agents.
A community-driven fork of Mastodon's federated social network software optimized for contributor-friendly development.
An open-source Zigbee to MQTT bridge that lets you control Zigbee devices without proprietary vendor gateways.
A self-hosted online file converter supporting over 1000 different formats across documents, images, video, and more.
A pure Elixir web server library designed for easy embedding and DSL creation.
A web-based open-source bug tracking system for software development teams.
A task automation library for Go, designed as a portable alternative to Make, Mage, and Task.
A distributed map-reduce framework for parallel computations over large datasets on unreliable computer clusters.
A high-performance Redis client for Go, inspired by Jedis, supporting clusters, pipelines, transactions, and distributed locks.
A Mac status bar utility for quickly uploading files to Dropbox and shortening links.
A high-performance GPU-accelerated Fast Fourier Transform library supporting Vulkan, CUDA, HIP, OpenCL, Level Zero, and Metal backends.
A high-performance, zero-allocation JSON serializer for C# that reads/writes directly to UTF8 binary.
An experimental integration of Apache Samza and Luwak for scalable real-time document matching against large query sets.
A Go SDK for AI applications providing a unified API across 22+ providers with streaming, structured output, and MCP support.
An open-source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework for building cross-platform applications.
A lightweight Ruby tool that automatically restarts applications when filesystem changes are detected.
A Common Lisp development environment with a native code compiler for Intel processors, fully integrated with the Win32 API.
UI components and hooks for building robust, customizable, and accessible video/audio players on the web.
A fast, parallel disk usage analyzer with an interactive console interface written in Go.
An open-source fighting game engine written in Go that supports M.U.G.E.N resources with enhanced features.
A high-performance PDF toolkit for text/image extraction, markdown conversion, and PDF editing, built in Rust with Python, WASM, CLI, and MCP server bindings.
An open-source, high-performance CFML server engine for running ColdFusion applications.
A GIMP plugin and command-line tool for importing and exporting Game Boy tilemaps and tilesets to/from GBDK, ZGB, GBTD, and GBMB formats.
A performant, batteries-included completion plugin for Neovim with LSP, snippet, and fuzzy matching support.