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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 pure Lua Neovim plugin providing comprehensive CMake project integration with build, test, and debug workflows.
A JavaScript parser generator with a Bison-compatible API for creating bottom-up parsers from JSON or Bison-style grammars.
An open-source PDF platform for editing, converting, signing, and automating PDFs with a self-hostable API and desktop app.
A modern C++20 GPU numerical computing library with Python-like syntax for near-native performance on NVIDIA GPUs.
A mobile-first note-taking app that stores Markdown notes in a Git repository for privacy and data portability.
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 extremely fast PHP linter, formatter, and static analyzer written in Rust.
A minimalist, self-hosted web app for sharing files of any size or type with direct download links.
An Arduino/Raspberry Pi tool to scan for JTAG pins and enumerate undocumented instructions on embedded devices.
A simple, lightweight batch processing framework for Java designed for ETL jobs.
A lightweight Python GUI toolkit for building web applications without JavaScript, web servers, or deployment hassles.
A Common Lisp serialization format offering rich data types, compact encoding, circular reference support, and security features.
A desktop app and self-hosted web dashboard that replaces Apple's App Store Connect for managing iOS/macOS app releases.
A universal process manager built in Deno to keep scripts, applications, and services alive across platforms.
A free and open visual editor for designing and customizing MapLibre GL map styles.
A macOS screensaver that displays music artwork from your Spotify or Last.fm profile in an iTunes-inspired grid.
A configurable type linter for JavaScript using standard syntax and heavy type inferencing.
A .NET build versioning tool that generates version strings from Git tags with built-in CI integrations.
A type-safe dependency injection toolkit for Go 1.18+ using generics, designed to replace uber/dig.
A Julia toolkit for graph-based molecule modeling, cheminformatics analysis, and chemical structure manipulation.
A lightweight concurrency framework for C++11 inspired by Microsoft PPL, providing tasks, parallel algorithms, and schedulers.
A production-ready SaaS boilerplate built with Go and React, featuring multi-tenancy, Stripe billing, white-label branding, and AI-agent ready architecture.
A GitLab Composer repository that indexes all projects with composer.json files across branches and tags.
A fast C++ library for parsing and emitting YAML, designed for performance and low memory usage.
A next-generation HTTP client for Python with HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 support, async/await APIs, and a command-line interface.
JPHP is a PHP compiler that runs on the Java Virtual Machine, enabling use of Java libraries and building desktop/Android apps.
A flexible Swift library for replaying HTTP requests in unit tests, inspired by VCR.
An open-source social bookmarking service and knowledge-sharing community for developers with advanced search and tag management.
A Neovim plugin for bookmarking files with per-project and per-buffer organization using a single keymap interface.
An Elixir/React framework for building real-time, interactive dashboards with supervised jobs and React widgets.
An open-source tactical wargame inspired by the Close Combat series, featuring real-time squad-based combat.
An open-source learning management system (LMS) developed by Instructure for educational institutions and organizations.
A Link in Bio service for Bluesky users to organize and share their links using their Bluesky account.
A generic and open signature format for describing log event detections, shareable across SIEM systems.
Build data-centric web applications by writing SQL queries that automatically generate interactive user interfaces.
A fast, parallel disk usage analyzer with an interactive console interface written in Go.