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rustdesk/rustdesk

An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
7 list mentions
First commit
2020-09-28
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
133 open
Forks
18,597
Commits
11,340 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
netdata/netdata

The fastest path to AI-powered full stack observability, even for lean teams.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-11
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2013-06-17
License
GPL-3.0
Issues
395 open
Forks
6,623
Commits
23,380 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
hoppscotch/hoppscotch

Open-Source API Development Ecosystem โ€ข https://hoppscotch.io โ€ข Offline, On-Prem & Cloud โ€ข Web, Desktop & CLI โ€ข Open-Source Alternative to Postman, Insomnia

Updated
2026-08-16
Lists
8 list mentions
First commit
2019-08-21
License
MIT
Issues
795 open
Forks
6,036
Commits
6,177 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy

Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. AppFlowy is the AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data. The leading open source Notion alternative.

Updated
2026-08-11
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2021-06-16
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
999 open
Forks
5,894
Commits
7,210 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
penpot/penpot

Penpot: The open-source design platform for Product teams that need scalable collaboration.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-20
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2015-06-18
License
MPL-2.0
Issues
827 open
Forks
4,120
Commits
23,802 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+191 +0.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+136 +0.6%
meilisearch/meilisearch

A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-14
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2018-04-22
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
313 open
Forks
2,682
Commits
14,587 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
laurent22/joplin

Joplin - the privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-11
Lists
8 list mentions
First commit
2016-10-19
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
642 open
Forks
6,278
Commits
15,784 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
milvus-io/milvus

Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-20
Lists
8 list mentions
First commit
2019-03-18
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
1,453 open
Forks
4,257
Commits
25,619 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+43 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+30 +0.1%
PostHog/posthog

:hedgehog: PostHog is the leading platform for building self-driving products. Our developer tools โ€“ AI observability, analytics, session replay, flags, experiments, error tracking, logs, and more โ€“ capture all the context agents need to diagnose problems, uncover opportunities, and ship fixes. Steer it all from Slack, web, desktop, or the MCP.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-13
Lists
8 list mentions
First commit
2020-01-23
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
5,554 open
Forks
3,376
Commits
60,540 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
spacedriveapp/spacedrive

Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-29
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2021-09-22
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
54 open
Forks
1,336
Commits
4,884 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
qdrant/qdrant

Qdrant - High-performance, massive-scale Vector Database and Vector Search Engine for the next generation of AI. Also available in the cloud https://cloud.qdrant.io/

Updated
2026-08-24
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2020-05-30
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
717 open
Forks
2,609
Commits
6,679 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
taosdata/TDengine

High-performance, scalable time-series database designed for Industrial IoT (IIoT) scenarios

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2019-07-11
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
448 open
Forks
5,018
Commits
86,668 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
cube-js/cube

๐Ÿ“Š Cube Core is open-source semantic layer for AI, BI and embedded analytics

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2018-09-17
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
1,119 open
Forks
2,120
Commits
11,131 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
windmill-labs/windmill

Open-source developer platform to power your entire infra and turn scripts into webhooks, workflows and UIs. Fastest workflow engine (13x vs Airflow). Open-source alternative to Retool and Temporal.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-20
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2022-05-05
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
867 open
Forks
1,097
Commits
14,804 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+35 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+62 +0.4%
manticoresoftware/manticoresearch

Open-source search database for full-text, vector, and hybrid search with real-time indexing and SQL.

Updated
2026-08-22
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2003-11-19
License
GPL-3.0
Issues
717 open
Forks
639
Commits
13,966 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
quickwit-oss/quickwit

Cloud-native OSS search engine for observability

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2021-04-13
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
803 open
Forks
581
Commits
3,801 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
databendlabs/databend

Data Agent Ready Warehouse : One for Analytics, Search, AI, Python Sandbox. โ€” rebuilt from scratch. Unified architecture on your S3.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2020-10-10
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
556 open
Forks
891
Commits
34,552 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
firezone/firezone

Enterprise-ready zero-trust access platform built on WireGuardยฎ.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2020-04-22
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
392 open
Forks
443
Commits
11,242 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
memgraph/memgraph

High-performance open-source in-memory graph database for GraphRAG, AI memory, agentic AI, and real-time graph analytics. Cypher-compatible, built in C++.

Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2015-06-18
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
786 open
Forks
259
Commits
5,176 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
terminusdb/terminusdb

TerminusDB is a distributed, collaborative database designed for building, sharing, versioning, and reasoning on structured data.

Updated
2026-08-10
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2019-05-29
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
9 open
Forks
149
Commits
5,798 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
svix/svix-webhooks

The open source and enterprise-ready webhooks service ๐Ÿฆ€

Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2021-02-14
License
MIT
Issues
60 open
Forks
271
Commits
3,879 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
padloc/padloc

A modern, open source password manager for individuals and teams.

Updated
2025-03-29
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2013-11-10
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
104 open
Forks
267
Commits
3,417 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
firecamp-dev/firecamp

Developer-first OpenSource API DevTool, Postman/Insomnia alternative.

Updated
2026-03-04
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2022-09-20
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
105 open
Forks
168
Commits
2,146 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
matanolabs/matano

Open source security data lake for threat hunting, detection & response, and cybersecurity analytics at petabyte scale on AWS

Updated
2025-01-08
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2022-07-14
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
55 open
Forks
122
Commits
576 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history