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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 free, open-source web application security scanner for finding vulnerabilities during development and testing.
A continuous file synchronization program that securely syncs files between multiple computers without central servers.
A high-performance, developer-friendly object-to-object mapper for .NET that automates mapping code generation.
A static API documentation generator that creates beautiful, responsive documentation sites from Markdown files.
A Kafka-compatible streaming data platform that's 10x faster, with no ZooKeeper or JVM dependencies.
A free, open-source screen capture and file sharing tool for Windows with extensive customization and upload destinations.
An open-source integrated development environment (IDE) and application framework for Java, PHP, and other languages.
A dynamic, real-time, high-performance cloud-native API gateway and AI gateway for traffic management and service orchestration.
An open-source platform for secrets management, certificate lifecycle, and privileged access management with self-hosting options.
A compact, dependency-free GUI pane library for fine-tuning parameters and monitoring value changes in web applications.
An open-source RSS reader and podcast app with a beautiful UI, personalized recommendations, and integrated search.
A QEMU-based interactive runtime analyzer for debugging and reverse engineering, serving as an alternative to strace and gdb.
An open-source AI agent for the terminal that helps developers understand codebases, automate tasks, and ship faster.
A professional animated sprite editor and pixel art tool for game developers and digital artists.
High-performance Node.js image processing module for resizing, converting, and manipulating JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, and TIFF images.
A lightweight, extensible code editor with built-in Git support, debugging, and IntelliSense for multiple languages.
A libre, Unix-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset for analyzing, debugging, and modifying binaries.
A pure PHP library for reading and writing Word documents in OOXML, ODF, RTF, HTML, and PDF formats.
A sandbox for developing, testing, and documenting UI components in isolation.
A free and open-source font editor for creating, editing, and converting fonts across multiple formats and platforms.
A minimal, human-readable configuration file format that maps unambiguously to a hash table.
An open-source database DevOps tool providing CI/CD, SQL review, and security features for managing database schema changes.
A cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) for building applications with Qt across desktop, embedded, and mobile platforms.
A simple open-source self-hosted file sharing solution with resumable uploads and password protection.
A tiny jQuery alternative for modern browsers with familiar chainable DOM manipulation methods.
A lightweight, high-performance, embeddable MQTT broker server written in Go, supporting distributed clusters and MQTT v3.0, v3.1.1, and v5.0.
Expose your localhost to the world for easy testing and sharing without DNS or deployment.
A standard library for JavaScript and TypeScript with an emphasis on numerical and scientific computation.
An Internet-scale TCP port scanner that can scan the entire Internet in under 5 minutes using asynchronous SYN packets.
A full-text search engine library written in Rust, inspired by Apache Lucene.
A community-developed, drop-in replacement for MySQL with enhanced features, performance, and open licensing.
A fast, local-first, reactive NoSQL database for JavaScript applications with realtime sync capabilities.
An open-source visual regression testing tool for Storybook, Ladle, Histoire, and modern frontend applications.
A fully compliant, embeddable high-performance MQTT v5 and v3.1.1 broker/server written in Go for IoT and pub/sub applications.
A Python-based interactive packet manipulation program and library for network analysis, scanning, and security testing.
An open-source online spreadsheet library with Excel-like features, including formulas, charts, and collaborative editing.