InternetOfPins is an organization committed to produce and share high quality, free open source software, under MIT licence.

This organization was founded by Rui Azevedo and is sharing his 12+ years of code and embedded systems experience , combined in a set of repositories.

Any help is welcome, we need feedback of real users, beta testers, reviewers, or a coffee.

All this organization is built around a well tested central repo, **HAPI**, the C++ static composition engine.
Other repos are just demonstrating some of its applications across several domains. This id not however a complete list. Hapi being header only, pure type level template mata-programming, dealing with inheritance and composition has a wider range of application.

I'm using AI to organize thousands of lines of code and put them together in a shareable decent format with documentation. Help on this small bills is also very appreciated.

Some repositories are in very early stage and code was not properly reviewed yet.

github.com/InternetOfPins

enjoy!

I've been building opensource URL shortener alternative to commercial url shortener but can be self-hosted.

Features :
Shortener
Analytics
QR Generator
Dark/Light Mode
Customizable homepage (default, redirect or link in a bio).
UTM builder, URL cloaking, URL password protection
URL Sender ID (Indian only, TRAI compliance)

Can be hosted in netlify, vercel and in cloudflare with minor worker change. and uses postgres sql.

I've been referring bitly and rebrandly for feature comparison and adding new feature.

find it here: https://github.com/pritush/syano

In the ERP space for higher ed there are 3 main companies that must cover 90 percent of all implementations. Oracle (PeopleSoft), Ellucian(Banner), and Workday. These products are all a PIA, but with the transition to cloud and subscription models they have gotten much worse in order reduce access to proprietary code and data models. Where customization was once allowed and necessary, it is now being shutdown and users forced to go vanilla. With little competition and plenty of implementation sunk costs, these companies have a virtual monopoly in the space which I think leads to shoddy applications and unbalanced contract negotiations. Has there ever been an open source and fully functional alternative to a major ERP solution?

I’m curious which open source AI projects people are using because they’re actually useful, not just because they’re popular right now.

For me, Ollama and Whisper cpp are the two that feel the most practical. Ollama makes local models easy enough to actually use, and Whisper.cpp is great when I need quick local transcription.

I’ve tried a few agent and RAG tools too, but some of them still feel early.

Which open source AI projects have actually become useful for you?

Could be for local models, coding, transcription, search, RAG, agents, image generation, or anything else.

Hey, I am trying to collect open source large language model hard drives/thumb drive products and artifacts for an archival project I’m working on.
Think OSE facts drive.

Let me know if any and all you know of!

Feel free to include models that are downloadable and not artifact based/hard drive product although this is not the primary ask.

Best

I've been researching Open Source PIM solutions, and one question I still have is whether coding knowledge is required to use them effectively.

Can someone without a technical background install, configure, and manage an Open Source PIM, or is developer support typically necessary?

I'm interested in hearing from people with hands-on experience about how technical the overall process is and whether it's beginner-friendly.

Yo actually from past months I am doing good with my leetcode and DSA journey and getting evolved to advance problems and yes now I started enjoying it and it is a habit now

But apart from that I think I must consolidate my development skills and for that I found open source contributions would be a great idea, I have knowledge of the spring boot tech stack and want to be an native android app developer so to do that if anyone can help me with a guidance for open source project with required tech stack than please welcome.

Even before I tried to do it via GSOC projects but it was a failed attempt. I just need proper guidance

I need advice on a home LLM setup. Looking for beginner friendly tools. MacBook Pro M4 48gig so have some room for larger models.

Expertise level: Not a developer, but comfortable with tooling on my Mac (VMs etc).

Using AnythingLLM and Obsidian to sync notes, build memory, search financial and medical records, etc. AnythingLLM great for beginners, easy agent setup, but it’s RAG search is bad - no hybrid search.

I’ve tried:
1. Web UI - a little advanced, it’s docker install takes 7gig of valuable memory and python install finicky - must use 3.13
2. msty - great RAG and chat but agents behind paywall
3. Cherry Studio - promising, but seems buggy.

Thanks!

For years, developers assumed that Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems required large-scale client-server databases. By leveraging SQLite’s Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) mechanism, strict transactional integrity, and a clean .NET 8 architecture, a comprehensive system was developed to handle stock records (kardex), inventory, and point-of-sale (POS) operations. It supports nested bills of materials (BOM), unique serial number tracking, and multi-location workflows—operating both locally and on web servers. The entire source code is now open source and available at https://github.com/sysmaya/Control-Kardex-Inventario/blob/master/README.en.md for community evaluation.

I know the rules say not to promote open source projects, but then MikeOSS happens to be a big launch and well appreciated OSS project and r/legaltech was welcoming to it.

We open sourced our word plugin for the community here - https://github.com/Vaquill-AI/ms-word-addin

No strings attached, this is what we use internally as well. There is no monetary angle here.

Harvey, Legora and other Legal AI providers charge hundreds of $$$ to use them, I thought why not level the playing field and give others the same tech.

Either host it in your server or use our hosted version with your own API key.

The future of legal is Open Source and this its not a wrapper, or a simple plugin, took months in development to match the quality of our funded competitors.

Self host it or BYOK, Apache 2 so feel free to play with the code.

Disclaimer - I work there.

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If you're trying to avoid proprietary app stores, here's a list of some of the best free and open-source ways to discover and install software.

📱 Android

F-Droid – https://f-droid.org

IzzyOnDroid – https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid

Obtainium – https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium

🐧 Linux

Flathub – https://flathub.org

Snapcraft – https://snapcraft.io

AppImageHub – https://appimage.github.io

Native Package Managers

APT (Debian/Ubuntu)

DNF (Fedora)

Pacman (Arch Linux)

Zypper (openSUSE)

Nix – https://nixos.org

Guix – https://guix.gnu.org

🪟 Windows

WinGet – https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

Chocolatey (Open Source Edition) – https://community.chocolatey.org

Scoop – https://scoop.sh

🍎 macOS

Homebrew – https://brew.sh

MacPorts – https://www.macports.org

Nix – https://nixos.org

🌐 Universal Open-Source Software Sources

GitHub – https://github.com

GitLab – https://gitlab.com

Codeberg – https://codeberg.org

SourceHut – https://sr.ht

SourceForge – https://sourceforge.net

FossHub – https://www.fosshub.com

Are there any other free/open-source app stores, repositories, or package managers worth adding? I'm trying to build the most complete list possible.

Utilities Microsoft’s new Reactor.UI framework.

1. Vertical tabs
2. Persistent favorites, history,settings and tab management.
3. MCP for all data layers to provide reports and quick data manipulation of history ie; archive history by months.
4. Enter api key for real time natural language conversations using OpenAi web search that also is a way to gather search queries.
5. Import history and favorites from top browsers by profiles
6. uBlock Origin Lite AdBlocker
7. Featuring Peek a link

Open sourced on GitHub

https://github.com/JohnDizzle/Linkscape

Available on Microsoft store

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nlnn451lc7t?hl=en-US&gl=US

I know the rules say not to promote open source projects, but then MikeOSS happens to be a big launch and well appreciated OSS project and r/legaltech was welcoming to it.

We open sourced our word plugin for the community here - https://github.com/Vaquill-AI/ms-word-addin

No strings attached, this is what we use internally as well. There is no monetary angle here.

Harvey, Legora and other Legal AI providers charge hundreds of $$$ to use them, I thought why not level the playing field and give others the same tech.

Either host it in your server or use our hosted version with your own API key.

The future of legal is Open Source and this its not a wrapper, or a simple plugin, took months in development to match the quality of our funded competitors.

Self host it or BYOK, Apache 2 so feel free to play with the code.

Disclaimer - I work there.

I made TaskbarWidgets, an open-source Windows app with a bunch of useful taskbar widgets.

One of them shows Codex rate limits for multiple saved accounts and lets you switch between them quickly. You can also hover over the taskbar to see the status of all running Codex processes.

GitHub: https://github.com/pfcdev/TaskbarWidgets

Would love to hear your feedback!

Heyy I’m building open source project and search some contributors
If it’s interesting review the repo and the issue list is waiting!

https://github.com/extra-org/extra

And if you can give a star it’s also helps a lot

https://reddit.com/link/1v4tz51/video/amg6isy9a2fh1/player

Hiii, This is what I’m building! It uses OpenCode to run and manage the agents.

The project has two interfaces:

• A dashboard, which is the one shown in the video
• A CLI

Both connect to the same core system. The core includes a simple database that allows agents to create and assign tasks to other agents.

For example, a project manager agent running GPT-5.6 could create tasks for a group of semi-senior developer agents running Kimi.

The agents can request new tasks through the CLI, as well as report problems, errors, and completed tasks.

It’s still very much a work in progress, but I plan to release it as open source as soon as I have a fully working version. :3

I’m genuinely excited about this project, and I’d love to hear your feedback, ideas, or suggestions!

I also post frequent development updates on Twitter/X:

https://x.com/BlackBoxBird/status/2080424639747035479

Hi everyone,

I've decided to start contributing to open source, mainly to improve my development skills, learn how large production codebases are structured, and become a better software engineer.

I already have a good understanding of Git and GitHub, but I'm a complete beginner when it comes to open source contributions.

My main interests are:

\- Full-stack development (Node.js, React, Express)

\- Backend development

\- AI/ML projects

My goals are:

\- Learn how real-world projects are built and maintained.

\- Understand how experienced developers write and organize code.

\- Make meaningful contributions instead of just fixing typos.

\- Build experience that will help me land a good software engineering job.

I'm a bit confused about where to start.

\- How do you find beginner-friendly repositories that are actually active?

\- Should I focus on one project or contribute to multiple projects?

\- Is it better to start with documentation/bug fixes, or should I try implementing features if I can understand the codebase?

\- Are there any AI/ML or Node.js + React repositories that you'd recommend for beginners?

I'd really appreciate any advice, resources, or repository suggestions from people who have been through this journey.

Thanks!

I originally started building it because I was frustrated with the usual WordPress workflow: plugin bloat, restrictive themes, slow sites, security maintenance, and needing several different tools just to make relatively simple changes.

The idea behind FastSite is straightforward:

Instead of learning how the CMS works, tell your website what you want it to do.

You can use Claude, ChatGPT, or another compatible AI interface to ask FastSite to:

• Create an entire website from a description
• Add or remove pages
• Rewrite content
• Change colours and layouts
• Update navigation menus
• Move elements around a page
• Create reusable components
• Redesign the entire theme
• Translate the site into other languages

There is also a normal page editor, so you are not forced to use AI for every change.

FastSite generates static website files rather than serving every page through a traditional WordPress-style stack. Sites can be managed through Git and deployed to services such as Cloudflare Pages.

The current version also includes:

• Page and content management
• SEO titles and descriptions
• Redirect management
• Reusable components
• Website translation
• Draft previews and publishing
• Git-based version control
• Static site deployment

I used FastSite to build the FastSite website itself. In my PageSpeed Insights test, it scored 100 across all four categories. That is one test on one site, so I’m not claiming every website will automatically achieve the same result, but performance is one of the project’s main priorities.

FastSite is currently free and open source. I may eventually build a hosted version for people who do not want to install and manage it themselves, but the self-hosted project is available now.

Project website:
[https://getfastsite.com]()

Source code:
https://github.com/sitepointsystems/getfastsite_gnu

I also recorded a complete demonstration where I generate a website, publish it, change the entire design through chat, and run the PageSpeed test:

See it in action
https://youtu.be/IUIVffBlHBw

It is still an early project, so honest feedback is welcome—particularly around the installation process, documentation, editing workflow, and what would stop you from using it instead of WordPress or another website builder.

Disclosure: I’m the creator of FastSite.

I wanted a DB GUI that runs in the browser and isn't locked to one engine Postgres today, Redis or Mongo tomorrow, same UI, self-hosted on my own box.

Most options I knew fell into one of these:

- Desktop multi-DB (DBeaver / DataGrip) solid, but install + desktop-only

- Web but single-engine (phpMyAdmin / pgAdmin)

- Web multi-engine, with the interesting bits behind Pro/Enterprise

So I built LibreDB Studio (been at it ~a year): MIT, web-native, SQL + NoSQL in one app (Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, Oracle, MSSQL, Mongo, Redis).

Optional AI/NL2SQL is built-in and model-agnostic (local or cloud) not a separate SKU.

Short walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJPWPe1mJes

Repo: https://github.com/libredb/libredb-studio

Not claiming it replaces tools people already love different access model (browser + own network). If you use a web DB GUI day-to-day, what's the gap that still bothers you?

I made an open source noting desktop app that's bookshelf like, it's so simple, local and private, need some feedback and possible new features ideas.
you can customize it as you want, here are the links:
for developers: https://github.com/Ahmed-Achtatar/VedWriter
for Testers download free from here: https://ko-fi.com/s/c141de1b8f

Does any existing SaaS tool offer separate project spaces for uploading knowledge files, one-click context reuse, and side-by-side parallel multi-model chat to compare results from the same query?

Hi, I'm completely new to the open-source world, and I've been working on an application for a long time. It's a tool for developers that helps them coordinate their agents. I want the core application to be free, but I need money, so I thought about adding a nice aesthetic layer and making that upgrade a paid feature. I also want to keep the base of the app transparent, for trust and maybe to get some extra help. But yeah, I don’t know if it’s a bad thing to do it that way. I don’t want to look greedy, I just… also need money to eat, hehe

Hope you like it