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grafana/grafana

The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-22
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2013-01-26
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
3,335 open
Forks
14,605
Commits
72,570 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
apache/superset

Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-20
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2015-07-02
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
637 open
Forks
18,356
Commits
23,043 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+83 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+119 +0.5%
strapi/strapi

๐Ÿš€ Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. Itโ€™s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable, and developer-first.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2015-09-30
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
538 open
Forks
9,851
Commits
37,762 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
RocketChat/Rocket.Chat

The Secure CommsOSโ„ข for mission-critical operations

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2015-05-19
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
3,979 open
Forks
13,808
Commits
30,117 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
appsmithorg/appsmith

Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2019-01-21
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
4,473 open
Forks
4,734
Commits
20,446 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
outline/outline

The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-19
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2016-02-27
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
75 open
Forks
3,569
Commits
10,479 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+79 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+40 +0.4%
medusajs/medusa

The world's most flexible commerce platform for agents and developers

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-11
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2020-01-18
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
193 open
Forks
5,223
Commits
10,778 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Budibase/budibase

AI agents, automations and apps that run your operations. Model agnostic.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2019-03-19
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
274 open
Forks
2,198
Commits
59,333 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
docusealco/docuseal

Open source DocuSign alternative. Create, fill, and sign digital documents โœ๏ธ

Updated
2026-08-17
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2023-05-21
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
118 open
Forks
1,833
Commits
2,915 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
dagster-io/dagster

An orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-22
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2018-04-30
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
2,595 open
Forks
2,255
Commits
27,882 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
streetwriters/notesnook

A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.

Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2019-11-14
License
GPL-3.0
Issues
978 open
Forks
983
Commits
15,533 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
gitpod-io/gitpod

The developer platform for on-demand cloud development environments to create software faster and more securely.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-17
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2020-08-25
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
456 open
Forks
1,397
Commits
12,515 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
openreplay/openreplay

Session replay, cobrowsing and product analytics you can self-host. Best for reproducing issues and iterating on your product.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2021-04-29
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
175 open
Forks
806
Commits
11,789 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
webiny/webiny-js

Open-source, self-hosted CMS platform on AWS serverless (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3). TypeScript framework with multi-tenancy, lifecycle hooks, GraphQL API, and AI-assisted development via MCP server. Built for developers at large organizations.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2018-01-09
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
351 open
Forks
673
Commits
19,771 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
buildship-ai/rowy

Low-code backend platform. Manage database on spreadsheet-like UI and build cloud functions workflows in JS/TS, all in your browser.

Updated
2024-11-23
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2019-09-05
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
79 open
Forks
557
Commits
4,272 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
athensresearch/athens

Athens is no longer maintainted. Athens was an open-source, collaborative knowledge graph, backed by YC W21

Updated
2023-02-03
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2020-03-31
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
316 open
Forks
396
Commits
4,647 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
serafimcloud/21st

npm for design engineers: largest marketplace of shadcn/ui-based React Tailwind components, blocks and hooks

AI dev
Updated
2025-05-28
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2024-09-30
License
MIT
Issues
128 open
Forks
313
Commits
1,055 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
deepfence/ThreatMapper

Open Source Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)

Updated
2026-06-01
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2021-10-13
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
144 open
Forks
633
Commits
7,898 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
appbaseio/reactivesearch

Search UI components for React and Vue

Updated
2026-08-10
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2017-08-06
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
185 open
Forks
477
Commits
5,339 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
cerbos/cerbos

Cerbos is the open core, language-agnostic, scalable authorization solution that makes user permissions and authorization simple to implement and manage by writing context-aware access control policies for your application resources.

Updated
2026-08-18
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2021-01-31
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
58 open
Forks
205
Commits
2,671 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey

๐Ÿ”ฅ LimeSurvey โ€“ A powerful, open-source survey platform. A free alternative to SurveyMonkey, Typeform, Qualtrics, and Google Forms, making it simple to create online surveys and forms with unmatched flexibility.

Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2003-03-07
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
Disabled
Forks
1,119
Commits
43,252 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
chaskiq/chaskiq

A full featured Live Chat, Support & Marketing platform, alternative to Intercom, Drift, Crisp.

Updated
2026-06-30
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2018-05-29
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
81 open
Forks
508
Commits
2,590 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Peppermint-Lab/peppermint

An open source issue management & help desk solution. A zendesk & jira alternative

Archived
Updated
2025-09-21
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2020-11-05
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
101 open
Forks
383
Commits
1,730 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
lunasec-io/lunasec

LunaSec - Dependency Security Scanner that automatically notifies you about vulnerabilities like Log4Shell or node-ipc in your Pull Requests and Builds. Protect yourself in 30 seconds with the LunaTrace GitHub App: https://github.com/marketplace/lunatrace-by-lunasec/

Updated
2024-05-02
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2021-03-15
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
98 open
Forks
167
Commits
3,454 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history