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Utilities that sit in the daily loop of writing, testing, and shipping software.

29 products, 18 Projects: 17 open source, 0 source-available, 1 unresolved-license

OpenCode

OpenCodeAIOpen

AI coding agent for terminal, editor, and desktop

Stars202.9K
Commit8h ago
LicenseMIT

OpenCode is a coding agent that runs where you already work rather than in a separate chat window. The same session can be driven from a terminal, an editor extension, or a desktop client, and it keeps context across all three.

Alternative togithub copilot
Firecrawl

FirecrawlAIOpen

Turn any website into clean, model-ready data

Stars174.9K
Commit11h ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Firecrawl handles the unglamorous part of feeding the web to a language model: rendering JavaScript, following pagination, stripping navigation and cookie banners, and returning markdown or structured JSON that a model can actually use.

Alternative tobrowserbase
Ollama

OllamaAIOpen

Run open language models locally with one command

Stars179.9K
Commit14h ago
LicenseMIT

Ollama reduced local model hosting from an afternoon of CUDA troubleshooting to a single pull command. It handles model download, quantisation selection, GPU offloading, and memory management, and exposes an OpenAI-compatible endpoint on localhost.

Alternative tolm studio
Excalidraw

ExcalidrawOpen

Collaborative whiteboard with a hand-drawn look

Stars130.9K
Commit23h ago
LicenseMIT

Excalidraw's sketchy rendering is not decoration. Diagrams that look provisional invite comment, where a crisp vector diagram signals a decision already made, so it is unusually good at the early part of a design conversation.

Alternative tomirofigma
llama.cpp

llama.cppAIOpen

Inference engine that runs LLMs on almost any hardware

Stars126.6K
Commit8h ago
LicenseMIT

llama.cpp is the layer most local model tooling is built on. It is a C and C++ inference engine with no Python runtime, aggressive quantisation support, and hand-tuned kernels for a remarkably wide range of hardware.

Alternative tolm studio
RustDesk

RustDeskOpen

Remote desktop you can point at your own relay server

Stars122.3K
Commit11h ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

RustDesk is remote desktop software where the relay server is a binary you can run yourself. That is the whole argument: the same convenience as the commercial tools, without your screen sessions transiting a vendor's infrastructure.

Alternative toanydesk
Godot Engine

Godot EngineOpen

Free 2D and 3D game engine with no royalties

Stars116.5K
Commit22h ago
LicenseMIT

Godot ships a complete engine, editor, and export pipeline under the MIT licence, which means no royalties, no revenue thresholds, and no licensing conversation before a project starts.

Alternative tounity
Browser Use

Browser UseAIOpen

Let AI agents drive a real browser

Stars111.9K
Commit15h ago
LicenseMIT

Browser Use gives an agent a real browser rather than an HTTP client. It handles the translation between a model's intent and DOM actions, keeps a structured representation of the page in context, and recovers from the usual navigation failures.

Alternative tobrowserbase
Retool

Retool

Internal tool builder assembled from components and queries

CompanyRetool
Since2017
PricingFreemium

Retool exists because internal admin panels are important, tedious, and never prioritised. It connects to databases and APIs directly and puts a drag and drop interface over them, so an operations tool takes an afternoon rather than a sprint.

Supabase

SupabaseOpen

Postgres-powered backend platform for production apps

Stars108.7K
Commit8h ago
LicenseApache-2.0

Supabase gives an application everything it needs on the server side without hiding the database behind a proprietary abstraction. The primitive is plain Postgres, and the platform layers authentication, generated APIs, storage, realtime subscriptions, and edge functions on top of it.

Alternative tofirebase
GitHub Copilot

GitHub CopilotAI

AI completion and chat inside the editor

CompanyGitHub
Since2021
PricingFreemium

Copilot put model assisted completion in front of a very large number of developers first, and inline suggestion in the editor remains the interaction most people mean by AI coding.

Unity

Unity

Commercial game engine with the widest platform reach

CompanyUnity Technologies
Since2005
PricingFreemium

Unity's advantage is distribution. Console certification, mobile export, XR headsets, and the middleware ecosystem around them are all solved problems, which is why studios keep choosing it even after several rounds of unpopular licensing changes.

Wispr Flow

Wispr FlowAI

AI dictation that cleans up speech as you talk

CompanyWispr
Since2024
PricingFreemium

Wispr Flow is dictation that accounts for how people actually speak. False starts, filler, and self-correction are removed, and the output is punctuated text rather than a transcript.

Browserbase

BrowserbaseAI

Hosted headless browser infrastructure for agents

CompanyBrowserbase
Since2024
PricingFreemium

Browserbase runs the browsers so you do not have to. Sessions, proxies, captcha handling, and stealth configuration are managed, which removes the least interesting and most fragile part of building anything that scrapes or automates the web.

Crowdin

Crowdin

Localisation management for software and content

CompanyCrowdin
Since2009
PricingFreemium

Crowdin coordinates the people, files, and machine translation involved in shipping a product in more than one language. Source strings sync from a repository, translators work in the web editor, and translated files come back on merge.

Hoppscotch

HoppscotchOpen

API client that runs in the browser and stays fast

Stars74.2K
Commit1d ago
LicenseMIT

Hoppscotch is an API client that opens in a tab. Requests, collections, environments, and history are all there, and it starts in the time a desktop client takes to check for updates.

Alternative topostman
Sentry

Sentry

Error tracking and performance monitoring for applications

CompanyFunctional Software
Since2012
PricingFreemium

Sentry is the tool most teams install first and remove last. An unhandled exception arrives with a stack trace, the release that introduced it, the users affected, and the breadcrumbs leading up to it.

Algolia

Algolia

Hosted search with millisecond responses and ranking control

CompanyAlgolia
Since2012
PricingFreemium

Algolia is search as a managed service, tuned so hard for latency that typing into a search box feels like filtering a local list. Typo tolerance, synonyms, and merchandising rules are all configurable without touching the index code.

Postman

Postman

API client and collaboration platform

CompanyPostman
Since2012
PricingFreemium

Postman is where most developers first poke at an API, and it grew from that into documentation, mock servers, monitoring, and team workspaces around shared collections.

AnyDesk

AnyDesk

Remote desktop access with very low latency

CompanyAnyDesk Software
Since2014
PricingFreemium

AnyDesk built its own codec for screen transport, and it shows: sessions over ordinary connections feel closer to local than most competitors manage. For support work where someone is watching you move their cursor, that latency difference matters.

Meilisearch

MeilisearchOpen

Typo-tolerant search that is fast to run and fast to tune

Stars52.3K
Commit1d ago
LicenseMIT

Meilisearch is a search engine you can be productive with in an afternoon. Indexing is a POST, relevance is tuned through an ordered list of ranking rules, and results come back typo-tolerant by default.

Alternative toalgolia
Coolify

CoolifyOpen

Deploy applications to your own servers with one click

Stars48.9K
Commit8h ago
LicenseApache-2.0

Coolify is a deployment platform that runs on servers you already pay for. It builds from a Git repository, provisions databases, issues certificates, and handles rollbacks, without the per-instance pricing of a hosted platform.

Alternative tofirebase
whisper.cpp

whisper.cppAIOpen

Speech recognition that runs anywhere, with no runtime

Stars43.2K
Commit1d ago
LicenseMIT

whisper.cpp is a C and C++ port of the Whisper speech recognition model with no Python dependency, quantised weights, and hardware acceleration across Apple Silicon, CUDA, and plain CPU.

Alternative towispr flow
Novu

Novu

Multi-channel notification infrastructure for applications

Stars39.7K
Commit8h ago
LicenseUnknown

Novu takes the notification logic that usually ends up scattered across a codebase - which channel, which template, which quiet hours, which digest window - and puts it behind one API and one workflow editor.

Alternative totwiliomailchimp