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The open-source Firebase alternative

Database
databaseauthstorage
Visit → 100366★ 58 AI recommendations
2

Browser automation and testing by Microsoft. Cross-browser.

Testing Tools
browser-automationtestingweb-scraping
Visit → 68000★ 8 AI recommendations
3

In-memory data store for caching, queues, and real-time apps.

Caching & In-Memory
cachecachingdatabase
Visit → 66000★ 45 AI recommendations

Open-source web crawling framework for Python.

API Tools
web-scrapingpythoncrawling
Visit → 61141★

Lightweight Bitwarden-compatible server. Self-host on minimal hardware.

Security Tools
password-managerself-hostedopen-source
Visit → 57925★ 51 AI recommendations

Open-source backend in a single file — SQLite, auth, and realtime

Headless CMS
backendsqliterealtime
Visit → 34 AI recommendations
Appwrite £15/mo

Open-source backend platform — auth, DB, storage & more

Database
backendbaasauth
Visit → 24 AI recommendations

Self-hosted Git service. Lightweight and fast.

DevOps & Infrastructure
gitself-hostedopen-source
Visit → 54761★

Self-hostable Heroku, Netlify, and Vercel alternative

DevOps & Infrastructure
hostingself-hostedopen-source
Visit → 52685★ 19 AI recommendations

Up-to-date library documentation for AI code editors

MCP Servers
documentationlibrariescontext
Visit → 51628★ 17 AI recommendations

Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser.

Testing Tools
angular-testing-librarycomponent-testingcypress
Visit → 49612★ 10 AI recommendations

Next-gen Node.js and TypeScript ORM with auto-generated types.

Database
databasedatabase-ormmigration
Visit → 45701★ 14 AI recommendations

TypeScript & JavaScript ORM for Node.js — supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, SQL Server, O

Database
active-recordcockroachdbdata-mapper
Visit → 36411★ 13 AI recommendations

Lightweight TypeScript ORM with SQL-like query builder.

Database
ormtypescriptsql
Visit → 33706★ 2 AI recommendations

The smallest PaaS implementation — self-hosted Heroku in one command

DevOps & Infrastructure
paasself-hosteddocker
Visit → 12 AI recommendations

Modern Redis replacement. 25x faster, multi-threaded.

Caching & In-Memory
cachecachinghigh-performance
Visit → 30305★ 2 AI recommendations

Browser automation and testing via accessibility tree

MCP Servers
playwrightbrowserautomation
Visit → 30274★ 19 AI recommendations
Turso £29/mo

Edge SQLite database — embed or deploy globally

Database
databasesqliteedge
Visit → 18142★ 19 AI recommendations

Fast unit test framework powered by Vite

Testing Tools
testingvitetypescript
Visit → 16293★ 10 AI recommendations

Data orchestration platform with built-in observability.

DevOps & Infrastructure
data-pipelineorchestrationobservability
Visit → 15238★ 1 AI recommendations
Trigger.dev £20/mo

Build & deploy fully-managed background jobs in code

Background Jobs
cronbackground-jobsqueues
Visit → 5 AI recommendations

Reliable message broker for distributed systems. Battle-tested.

Message Queue
queuemessage-brokeropen-source
Visit → 13569★ 4 AI recommendations

Multi-threaded Redis fork with active replication.

Caching & In-Memory
cachein-memoryredis-fork
Visit → 12455★ 1 AI recommendations

Python SQL toolkit and ORM. The gold standard for Python database access.

Database
ormpythonsql
Visit → 11700★ 2 AI recommendations

Scrape, crawl, and extract web data for AI

MCP Servers
scrapingwebcrawling
Visit → 5948★ 22 AI recommendations

A payment application to demonstrate real-world usage of Cypress testing methods, patterns, and work

Testing Tools
api-testingcode-coveragecomponent-testing
Visit → 5878★ 9 AI recommendations

Terminal control and file management for Claude

MCP Servers
terminalshellfiles
Visit → 5845★

The definitive self-hosted URL shortener

DevOps & Infrastructure
open-sourcephpself-hosted
Visit → 4846★

A self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader.

DevOps & Infrastructure
open-sourcerubyself-hosted
Visit → 4112★ 5 AI recommendations

Source code spell checker

CLI Tools
cliopen-sourcerust
Visit → 3868★

The fastest and complete solution for domain recognition. Supports screenshoting, port scan, HTTP ch

API Tools
apiopen-sourcerust
Visit → 3717★ 1 AI recommendations

💫 Ngrok FRP Alternative • ⚡ Fast • 🪶 Lightweight • 0️⃣ Dependency • 🔌 Pluggable • 😈 TLS interception

Developer Tools
lightweightopen-sourcepython
Visit → 3518★

Lightweight Native Local Dev Toolbox for Windows, macOS & Linux. Run Apache/Nginx/Caddy/Tomcat/PHP/N

DevOps & Infrastructure
dockerlightweightopen-source
Visit → 2665★ 3 AI recommendations

Connect AI assistants to Supabase projects and databases

MCP Servers
supabasepostgresdatabase
Visit → 2581★ 2 AI recommendations

CodeMachine is an open-source tool that orchestrates AI coding agents into repeatable, long-running

CLI Tools
cliopen-sourcetypescript
Visit → 2417★

Nosey Parker is a command-line tool that finds secrets and sensitive information in textual data and

Security Tools
open-sourcerust
Visit → 2317★ 1 AI recommendations

Minimalistic web app designed for sending private and secure notes.

Security Tools
open-sourceself-hostedtypescript
Visit → 1967★ 2 AI recommendations

Extensible code review tool for projects of all sizes

DevOps & Infrastructure
code-reviewgitself-hosted
Visit → 1696★

A tool for finding out what contributes to the size of Webpack bundles

Developer Tools
open-sourcetypescript
Visit → 1390★ 1 AI recommendations

Offline inference engine for art, real-time voice conversations, LLM powered chatbots and automated

AI Dev Tools
open-sourcepythonself-hosted
Visit → 1315★

3,000+ pre-built cloud actors for web scraping and automation

MCP Servers
scrapingautomationactors
Visit → 1016★

A CLI tool to check whether a specific composer package uses imported symbols that aren't part of it

CLI Tools
cliopen-sourcephp
Visit → 992★

Query and explore graph databases with natural language

MCP Servers
neo4jgraph-databasecypher
Visit → 931★ 1 AI recommendations

A CLI tool to convert CSV / Excel / HTML / JSON / Jupyter Notebook / LDJSON / LTSV / Markdown / SQLi

Database
cliconverteropen-source
Visit → 870★

Privacy-first web search for AI assistants

MCP Servers
searchwebnews
Visit → 868★ 1 AI recommendations

The ⚡️ analytics-intensive, self-hostable link-shortener with a beautiful UI | AKA free bit.ly alter

DevOps & Infrastructure
javascriptopen-sourceself-hosted
Visit → 797★ 5 AI recommendations

🚀 Self-hosted AI automation platform. Deploy n8n, Ollama, Flowise, RAG, Supabase & 30+ tools with on

AI & Automation
apiopen-sourceself-hosted
Visit → 791★

😋 AI-powered, Lightweight RSS Reader. Supports: GitHub Pages | Vercel | Alibaba Cloud ESA Pages | Do

Newsletters & Content
dockerlightweightopen-source
Visit → 719★

Serverless Postgres management and querying for AI agents

MCP Servers
postgresserverlessdatabase
Visit → 572★ 1 AI recommendations

Natural language interface for Redis data management

Caching & In-Memory
rediscachekey-value
Visit → 472★ 4 AI recommendations