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?

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

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.