There are lots of open-source projects which are just 🤯. From productivity tools to B2B applications, open-source projects are there for you. Let's see some open-source projects worth using. You may find that some of these projects could help you completely replace your paid software 👀.
1. Chatwoot
Chatwoot is an open-source alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, HubSpot, Salesforce Service Cloud. Not just live chat, it has support for multiple channels like Email, Facebook page, Twitter handle, WhatsApp etc.
Features:
- Shared inbox - Collaborate with your team easily with a shared inbox means you can assign different tasks from the same inbox to different agents
- Live chat - Add a live chat widget to your website and improve your customer experience
- Channels - Support for multiple channels like Email, WhatsApp, Twitter, Twilio, Facebook, Instagram, Line. Also, you access all the channels from one place, no need to jump between channels
- Automations - Automate repetitive tasks
- Chatbots - Build chatbots with Dialogflow or Rasa and connect to your inbox
- Mobile apps(IOS & Android) - Engage with customers instantly from anywhere with Chatwoots' IOS and Android apps
- Integrations - Integration options are available for Slack, WordPress, Dialogflow and Rasa
2. Amplication
Amplication is a low-code/no-code tool. Generate your NodeJs application along with a beautiful React admin panel within minutes. Your NodeJs app is just a few clicks away.
Features:
- React Admin-UI generated with react-admin
- NodeJs app with Postgres database
- GraphQL and RESTAPI
- Sync with GitHub or download code as a zip file
- Sandbox environment to develop and test your app without setting it up locally
- Docker support to deploy to the cloud
3. Docz
Docz is a documentation tool based on MDX. It is a simple and easy alternative to Docusaurus. Don't waste time building a documentation website. Use Docz to quickly document your project.
Features:
- Powered by Gatsby - Fast development experience and speed build times
- Zero configuration
- Customize however you want
- Based on MDX
- Plugins
- Typescript support
4. Partytown
Partytown is a lazy-loaded library to help relocate resource-intensive scripts into a web worker, and off of the main thread. Its goal is to help speed up sites by dedicating the main thread to your code and offloading third-party scripts to a web worker.
If you have so many third-party scripts like Google Tag Manager, Live chat widget, A/B testing, and trackers, it can make your website load slowly, hence effects performance. With Partytown, you can load your code from the main thread and third-party scripts in a web worker.
Features:
- Integration support for Astro, Gatsby, HTML, NextJS, Nuxt, React, Remix, Hydrogen (Shopify)
- Support for various third-party scripts
5. Typesense
Does your product need a superfast, easy-to-integrate search engine? Typesense is for you. Typesense is an open-source search engine, an alternative to Agolia and Elasticsearch.
Features:
- Typo tolerance
- Easy to set up, operate and scale
- Fast
- Dynamically sort results based on a particular field at query time
- Faceting and Filtering
- Group similar results together
- Search across multiple collections in a single HTTP request
6. BackdropCMS
Backdrop is a free and open-source Content Management System built on top of Drupal. Build highly customizable websites for free. With Backdrop, you can build anything from a personal blog site to an e-commerce website.
Features:
- Addons
- Modules
- Different themes
- Layout templates
7. Hoppscotch
HoppScotch is an open-source alternative to Postman.
Features:
- Lightweight
- Fast
- Themes
- PWA
- GraphQL and REST API
- All the features postman offers
8. NocoDB
NocoDB is an open-source alternative to Airtable. Convert any database into a smart spreadsheet. Cool #nocode tool 😎.
⚠️ Don't forget to leave a ⭐ on Github to these amazing projects.
There are thousands of amazing open-source projects available. I shared some of them that I found interesting.