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Reviewed open-source projects

Every project here has been hand-reviewed by the Fossy editors with an Editor's Take, honest assessment, and deep dive. Ranked by GitHub stars.

59 reviewed projects

build-your-own-x

build-your-own-x

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codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x

Demystify software engineering: Recreate iconic technologies like Git and Docker from scratch with Build Your Own X for unparalleled hands-on learning and system-level mastery.

538k51k
Markdownawesome-listfreeprogramming
coding-interview-university

coding-interview-university

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jwasham/coding-interview-university

The definitive, free, and open-source computer science study plan to prepare for software engineering interviews at top tech companies.

algorithmalgorithmscoding-interview
n8n

n8n

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n8n-io/n8n

n8n: The Open-Source, Fair-Code Workflow Automation Platform with Visual Building, Custom Code & Native AI for Unparalleled Integration Flexibility.

TypeScriptaiapisautomation
opencode

opencode

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anomalyco/opencode

OpenCode: The Open-Source AI Agent that Writes, Debugs, and Optimizes Code, Empowering Developers with Autonomous, Intelligent Software Creation.

stable-diffusion-webui

stable-diffusion-webui

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automatic1111/stable-diffusion-webui

Empower Your Creativity: The Premier Open-Source Web UI for Stable Diffusion.

Pythonaiai-artdeep-learning
next.js

next.js

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vercel/next.js

Next.js: The Ultimate React Framework for Building Production-Ready, High-Performance Web Applications with Ease.

JavaScriptblogbrowsercompiler
ComfyUI

ComfyUI

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Comfy-Org/ComfyUI

ComfyUI: The Ultimate Node-Based Visual Engine for Unparalleled Stable Diffusion Control and Advanced AI Art Workflows.

Pythonaicomfycomfyui
immich

immich

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immich-app/immich

Immich: Your ultimate open-source solution for self-hosting and managing personal photos and videos with robust features, smart organization, and complete privacy.

TypeScriptbackup-toolfluttergoogle-photos
supabase

supabase

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supabase/supabase

Accelerate your development with Supabase: An open-source, Postgres-powered backend platform offering auth, storage, and real-time APIs for web, mobile, and AI applications.

TypeScriptaialternativeauth
awesome-design-md

awesome-design-md

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VoltAgent/awesome-design-md

Automate UI Generation with awesome-design-md: Leverage Curated Design Systems and AI Coding Agents for Consistent Interfaces.

awesome-listdesign-mddesign-system
caveman

caveman

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JuliusBrussee/caveman

Drastically Cut LLM Token Costs with Caveman: An Open-Source Claude Code Skill That Optimizes Prompts for Maximum Efficiency and Savings.

Goaianthropiccaveman
claude-mem

claude-mem

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thedotmack/claude-mem

Build Smarter AI Agents: Claude-Mem Provides Intelligent, Persistent Memory to Remember Everything Your Agent Does, Supercharging Cross-Session Context with AI Compression.

JavaScriptaiai-agentsai-memory
sherlock

sherlock

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sherlock-project/sherlock

Unmask Online Identities: Sherlock Efficiently Hunts Social Media Accounts by Username Across Hundreds of Networks.

Pythonclicticybersecurity
netdata

netdata

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netdata/netdata

Netdata: The ultimate open-source, real-time observability platform for full-stack monitoring, AI-powered insights, and instant troubleshooting, designed for developers and lean teams.

Goaialertingcncf
appflowy

appflowy

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AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy

AppFlowy: The leading open-source Notion alternative, offering an AI-powered collaborative workspace to bring projects, wikis, and teams together while ensuring you retain full control of your data.

Dartblogconfluence-alternativecontent-management
nocodb

nocodb

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nocodb/nocodb

NocoDB: Your Open-Source Airtable Alternative. Turn Any SQL Database into a Powerful Spreadsheet Interface with Instant APIs for Low-Code App Development.

TypeScriptairtableairtable-alternativeautomatic-api
FFmpeg

FFmpeg

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FFmpeg/FFmpeg

FFmpeg: The foundational open-source framework for comprehensive audio and video processing, enabling conversion, streaming, and advanced manipulation of nearly any media format.

Caudiocffmpeg
memos

memos

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usememos/memos

Memos: Your Personal, Open-Source Knowledge Base. Self-host your markdown-native notes, ideas, and code snippets with unparalleled speed and complete data privacy. Take back control of your digital thoughts today!

Godockerfossgo
Pake

Pake

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tw93/Pake

Transform any website into a lightning-fast, resource-friendly desktop application with Pake, powered by Rust and Tauri.

Rustchatgptclaudedesktop
career-ops

career-ops

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santifer/career-ops

Career-Ops: Your AI-Powered Open-Source Partner for Effortless Job Search and Perfect Resume Tailoring, Built on Claude Code for Developers.

JavaScriptaiai-agentanthropic
coolify

coolify

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coollabsio/coolify

Coolify: The Open-Source PaaS That Puts You Back in Control. Deploy anything from static sites to complex full-stack apps and databases, all on your own servers.

PHPcoolifydatabasesdeployment
Agent-Reach

Agent-Reach

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Panniantong/Agent-Reach

Unlock the full internet for your AI agents. Agent-Reach provides zero-cost web browsing and search across major social media and video platforms, empowering autonomous systems with unparalleled real-time data access.

Pythonagent-infrastructureai-agentai-search
appwrite

appwrite

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appwrite/appwrite

Appwrite: The Ultimate Open-Source, Self-Hosted Backend Platform. Deliver Web, Mobile, & AI Apps with Auth, Databases, Storage, & Functions. Build Fast, Scale Securely, Own Your Stack.

TypeScriptandroidappwritebackend
plane

plane

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makeplane/plane

Plane: The Open-Source Project Management Platform for Agile Teams – A Self-Hosted Alternative to Jira, Linear, and ClickUp.

TypeScriptboardsbug-trackerdjango
ghost

ghost

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TryGhost/Ghost

Ghost: The Open-Source Publishing Platform Empowering Modern Creators with Unrivaled Content, Membership, and Newsletter Control.

JavaScriptbloggingcmsghost
AI-For-Beginners

AI-For-Beginners

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microsoft/AI-For-Beginners

Microsoft's Free, Open-Source AI Curriculum: 12 Weeks, 24 Lessons to Master Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, and NLP with Hands-on Jupyter Notebooks.

Jupyter Notebookaiartificial-intelligencecnn
cypress

cypress

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cypress-io/cypress

Cypress: Accelerate web development with fast, reliable end-to-end and component testing, making quality assurance an integrated and delightful part of your workflow.

TypeScriptangular-testing-librarycomponent-testingcypress
metabase

metabase

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metabase/metabase

Metabase: The Easy-to-Use Open-Source Business Intelligence & Embedded Analytics Platform for Collaborative Data Exploration

Clojureanalyticsbibusiness-intelligence
airi

airi

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moeru-ai/airi

Airi: The Open-Source, Self-Hosted AI Companion for Real-time Voice Interaction, Gaming, and True Digital Ownership, aiming for Neuro-sama's advanced altitude.

TypeScriptai-companionai-vtuberairi
cal.diy

cal.diy

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calcom/cal.diy

Cal.com: The Open-Source Infrastructure for Building Custom Scheduling Solutions. Own Your Calendar, Integrate Seamlessly.

TypeScriptnext-authnextjsopen-source
voicebox

voicebox

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jamiepine/voicebox

Voicebox: The Ultimate Open-Source AI Voice Studio for Local Voice Cloning, Dictation, and Creative Audio Generation.

TypeScriptaicudamlx
librechat

librechat

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danny-avila/LibreChat

An Advanced, Open-Source ChatGPT Alternative: Self-Host Your AI Chat with Multi-Model Support, Agents, Code Interpreter, and Secure Multi-User Access.

TypeScriptaianthropicartifacts
mattermost

mattermost

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mattermost/mattermost

Mattermost: The Ultimate Open-Source Platform for Secure Team Collaboration Across the Entire Software Development Lifecycle

TypeScriptcollaborationgolanghacktoberfest
posthog

posthog

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PostHog/posthog

PostHog: The open-source platform unifying product analytics, session replay, feature flags, and a CDP to empower developers and product teams with actionable user insights.

Pythonab-testingai-analyticsanalytics
500-AI-Agents-Projects

500-AI-Agents-Projects

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ashishpatel26/500-AI-Agents-Projects

Your ultimate curated guide to over 500 real-world AI Agent use cases and open-source projects, revolutionizing industries from healthcare to finance.

Pythonai-agentsgenai
facefusion

facefusion

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facefusion/facefusion

FaceFusion: The industry-leading open-source AI platform for seamless face swapping, advanced deepfake generation, and realistic lip-sync, empowering creators and developers with unparalleled digital identity manipulation capabilities.

Pythonaideep-fakedeepfake
open-lovable

open-lovable

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firecrawl/open-lovable

Instantly clone and recreate any website as a modern React app, drastically accelerating your frontend development workflow.

Open-Generative-AI

Open-Generative-AI

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Anil-matcha/Open-Generative-AI

Open-Generative-AI: The definitive uncensored, self-hosted open-source studio for limitless AI image and video creation. Access 200+ models, including Flux, Midjourney, and Sora alternatives, all under MIT license.

JavaScriptai-art-generatorai-image-generationai-video-generation
meetily

meetily

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Zackriya-Solutions/meetily

Meetily: The Privacy-First, Rust-Powered AI Meeting Assistant for Secure, Local Transcription and Smart Summarization on macOS and Windows.

Rustaiai-meeting-assistantllm
monica

monica

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monicahq/monica

Monica: The Open-Source Personal Relationship Manager. Effortlessly remember every detail about your friends, family, and business connections, ensuring stronger relationships with complete data privacy.

PHPcrmfamilyfriends
orca

orca

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stablyai/orca

Orca: The Advanced Agent Development Environment (ADE) for Commanding Your Fleet of Parallel AI Agents. Develop, Orchestrate, and Manage with Unprecedented Control Across Desktop & Mobile.

TypeScriptadeagent-ideai-agents
SingleFile

SingleFile

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gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

SingleFile: The Ultimate Browser Extension to Faithfully Save Any Web Page as a Single, Self-Contained HTML File for Perfect Offline Access and Robust Archiving.

JavaScriptannotationsarchivearchiver
ebook2audiobook

ebook2audiobook

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DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook

Turn your digital library into personalized audiobooks with ebook2audiobook: advanced voice cloning, 1158+ languages, and seamless conversion from EPUB, TXT, and PDF.

Pythonaudiobookaudiobookschinese
stop-slop

stop-slop

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hardikpandya/stop-slop

Eliminate AI 'tells' from your writing to ensure authentic, human-sounding prose. stop-slop is the essential open-source skill file for natural language integrity.

palmier-pro

palmier-pro

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palmier-io/palmier-pro

macOS Video Editor Supercharged with AI: Open-Source Power for Next-Gen Content Creators.

Swiftai-videoclaudemacos
darktable

darktable

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darktable-org/darktable

darktable: The Ultimate Open-Source Photography Workflow Application and Raw Developer for Non-Destructive Editing.

loop-engineering

loop-engineering

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cobusgreyling/loop-engineering

Empower Autonomous AI Coding Agents: Practical Patterns, Starters & CLI Tools for Robust Loop Engineering Workflows with LLMs.

JavaScriptagentic-aiai-agentsai-coding
google-maps-scraper

google-maps-scraper

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gosom/google-maps-scraper

Unleash Google Maps Data: High-Performance Go Scraper for Comprehensive Location Intelligence.

Goagent-skillsclaude-skillscodex-skills
librum

librum

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Librum-Reader/Librum

Librum: Your Personal, Self-Hosted Digital Library. Organize, Read, and Control Your Ebook Collection with Open-Source Power.

C++cmakecppebook-reader
openreel-video

openreel-video

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Augani/openreel-video

OpenReel Video: The professional, open-source video editor running entirely in your browser. Experience privacy, power, and no watermarks, all without installation.

html-video

html-video

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nexu-io/html-video

Programmatic Video for Coding Agents: Turn HTML, CSS & Data into Dynamic MP4s on Your Laptop, with AI Soundtracks and 21 Templates.

HTMLai-agentapache-2coding-agent
lazyssh

lazyssh

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Adembc/lazyssh

Effortlessly Manage SSH and SCP in Your Terminal with lazyssh: A Go-Powered TUI for Streamlined Remote Server Control.

Gocligogolang
MemMachine

MemMachine

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MemMachine/MemMachine

MemMachine: The Universal Memory Layer for AI Agents, Providing Scalable, Extensible, and Interoperable Memory Storage for Next-Gen Autonomous Systems.

Pythonagentagentic-aiagents
gladys-assistant

gladys-assistant

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GladysAssistant/Gladys

Gladys Assistant: Empowering Your Smart Home with Privacy, Open Source, and Local Control.

JavaScriptassistantautomationgladys
Clypra

Clypra

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AIEraDev/Clypra

Clypra: A modern, free, and open-source desktop video editor. Harness premium CapCut-like features using Tauri, React, and TypeScript for cross-platform creative power.

TypeScriptclypravideo-editor
freecut

freecut

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walterlow/freecut

FreeCut: Unlock professional video editing power directly in your browser. Multi-track, keyframes, real-time preview, and high-quality exports – all with zero installation.

TypeScriptmediabunnyopen-sourcereact
reicon

reicon

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dqev/reicon

Reicon: The Open-Source Icon Library Revolutionizing UI for Designers & Developers with Customizable, Animated SVG Icons.

HTMLanimateddesigndesigner
uninstally

uninstally

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gostonx/uninstally

Uninstally: The Clean, Native macOS Uninstaller You Didn't Know You Needed. Say Goodbye to Leftover Files and System Clutter with Smart Bundle-Identifier Detection and SwiftUI.

dom-docx

dom-docx

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floodtide/dom-docx

Transforming semantic HTML into fully editable Word documents has never been simpler. Dom-docx empowers developers to generate professional, native .docx files directly from web content, streamlining workflows.

TypeScriptdocx-generatorjavascriptnode