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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.
A standard library for JavaScript and TypeScript with an emphasis on numerical and scientific computation.
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A tiny, friendly, C# parser construction library for building parsers directly in code using parser combinators.
A cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) for building applications with Qt across desktop, embedded, and mobile platforms.
A lightweight, high-performance, embeddable MQTT broker server written in Go, supporting distributed clusters and MQTT v3.0, v3.1.1, and v5.0.
A fast, local-first, reactive NoSQL database for JavaScript applications with realtime sync capabilities.
Identifies compilers, packers, obfuscators, and other characteristics in Android APK and DEX files.
An open-source AI agent for the terminal that helps developers understand codebases, automate tasks, and ship faster.
A distributed stream processing engine in Rust that performs stateful computations on real-time data with subsecond results.
An Internet-scale TCP port scanner that can scan the entire Internet in under 5 minutes using asynchronous SYN packets.
An open-source platform for secrets management, certificate lifecycle, and privileged access management with self-hosting options.
Open-source authentication and session management service, providing a self-hosted alternative to Auth0, Firebase Auth, and AWS Cognito.
A flexible and fast package for in-memory tabular data manipulation and analysis in the Julia programming language.
A modern, multi-threaded HTTP benchmarking tool for generating significant load on web servers and APIs.
A minimal, well-tested library for training and using feedforward artificial neural networks in ANSI C.
A pure PHP library for reading and writing Word documents in OOXML, ODF, RTF, HTML, and PDF formats.
A self-hosted photo management service with automatic face recognition, object detection, and semantic search.
An open-source database DevOps tool providing CI/CD, SQL review, and security features for managing database schema changes.
A libre, Unix-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset for analyzing, debugging, and modifying binaries.
Open-source accounting software for small businesses and freelancers, built with Laravel and Vue.js.
A Swift framework for reactive and functional programming, providing composable primitives for streams of values over time.
A high-performance NoSQL database compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB, built on a shared-nothing architecture.
Expose your localhost to the world for easy testing and sharing without DNS or deployment.
A roguelike dungeon management game where you build and defend your dungeon while raiding others.
Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS by default.
A simple open-source self-hosted file sharing solution with resumable uploads and password protection.
A community-developed, drop-in replacement for MySQL with enhanced features, performance, and open licensing.
An open-source business intelligence and embedded analytics platform that enables everyone to explore and visualize data.
A private messaging platform with no user identifiers, using disposable relay nodes for metadata protection.
A modern, Bash-like shell that uses Clojure syntax for command composition and data manipulation.
A standard library for JavaScript and TypeScript with an emphasis on numerical and scientific computation.
A minimal, fast zsh prompt that displays command status and git repository information using gitstatus.
A Zsh configuration framework with a built-in plugin manager, modular extensions, and blazing-fast startup speed.
A lightweight, extensible messaging framework for .NET supporting pub/sub and request-response patterns with multiple broker integrations.
A single-file public domain math library for game and graphics programming with C/C++ support.
A full-text search engine library written in Rust, inspired by Apache Lucene.
A multi-threaded Python brute-forcing tool with a modular design for reliable and flexible password guessing attacks.
Metadata and tooling for the OpenTofu provider and module registry, enabling discovery and management of infrastructure components.