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Vercel Astro Templates - Starter Directory for Astro Projects
Vercel's Astro templates page is a curated directory for developers who want to start an Astro application or website from an existing template rather than from a blank project. The page presents Astrospecific starters...
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Easy-Vibe - Beginner-Friendly Vibe Coding Course
EasyVibe is an opensource learning project from Datawhale China that presents itself as a modern programming course for the AI era. Its GitHub README frames the course around a...
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TradingAgents - Multi-Agent LLM Framework for Financial Trading
TradingAgents is an opensource framework that applies multiagent LLM design to financial trading workflows. Instead of relying on one monolithic model process, it frames market...
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Kronos - Foundation Model for the Language of Financial Markets
Kronos is presented as a foundation model focused on the language of financial markets. It targets a difficult domain where noisy signals, regime changes, and fast feedback loops...
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Everything Claude Code - Agent Harness Performance System
Everything Claude Code is a GitHub repository for tuning and packaging workflows around AI agent harnesses. Its README presents it as a performance optimization system rather than...
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Wasp - Full-Stack Framework for the AI Era
Wasp is a fullstack framework built around React, Node.js, and Prisma, designed to reduce boilerplate while keeping developers in familiar technologies. Its central promise is...
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VoltAgent awesome-agent-skills - Curated Skill Library for Coding Agents
awesomeagentskills by VoltAgent is a curated repository of reusable agent skills compatible with popular codingagent ecosystems. Instead of reinventing prompts and workflows for...
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DocuSeal - Open-Source Document Signing Platform
DocuSeal is an opensource platform for preparing, filling, and signing digital documents. Its GitHub README presents it as a tool for creating PDF forms that can be filled and...
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Coolify - Self-Hosted Deployment Platform for Apps and Databases
Coolify is an opensource, selfhostable control plane for deploying applications, databases, and hundreds of oneclick services to infrastructure you own. It positions itself as an...
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nocodb/nocodb: Open Source Airtable Alternative
NocoDB is a nocode data platform that places a spreadsheetstyle interface on top of relational databases. It is often described as an Airtable alternative, but its real strength is...
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GitHub - steff393/wbec: Control Heidelberg Wallbox Energy Control over WiFi using ESP8266
Control Heidelberg Wallbox Energy Control over WiFi using ESP8266 github.com/steff393/wbec
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SmartTV Blocklist PiHole
This is a blocklist to block smartTVs sending metadata back home, sometimes with the added benefit of blocking interface ads for apps and movie services....
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Medusa: Open Source Shopify alternative
The Open Source Shopify Alternative Create a headless commerce store in minutes and start your growth journey on a fast and flexible foundation. www.medusajs.com/
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blockplate | Simple, Reliable Seed Phrase Storage – Blockplate
Blockplate is a physical seed phrase backup product designed for longterm cryptocurrency wallet recovery. Its core idea is straightforward: store wallet recovery words on durable...
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Hola VPN - hola.org
Hola is a freemium web and mobile application which provides a form of VPN service to its users through a peertopeer network.
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Duplicati
Free backup software to store encrypted backups online For Windows, macOS and Linux www.duplicati.com/
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FINRA Monthly Margin Statistics
Pursuant to FINRA Rule 4521(d), FINRA member firms carrying margin accounts for customers are required to submit, on a settlement date basis, as of the last business day of the...
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Tyler Hobbs | Generative Art
Tyler Hobbs is a visual artist from Austin, Texas who works primarily with algorithms, plotters, and paint. His artwork focuses on computational aesthetics, how they are shaped by...
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RegExp Download Organizer - Chrome Web Store
This extension allows you to set custom download locations with a flexible and strong RegExpbased rules. You can literally use all the power of regular expressions in your rules...
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Alitools - AliExpress Price Tracker Extension: Price History, Shopping Assistant
Alitools is a shopping assistant focused on AliExpress, built around a simple promise: help buyers make better decisions before clicking "buy." Its core features include price...
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BuildShip | Visual Low-code Backend Builder
BuildShip is a visual backend and workflow platform designed for teams that want nocode speed with the option to drop into full code when necessary. Its positioning is clear:...
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Efficiently Manage Your DigitalOcean Droplet: Top Automation Tools You Can Self-Host
If you are running workloads on DigitalOcean droplets, automation tooling quickly becomes the difference between reliable operations and manual firefighting. The practical approach...
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yt-dlp/yt-dlp: A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
ytdlp is one of the most capable opensource commandline downloaders for online video and audio sources. It began as a fork of youtubedl, but has become a more actively maintained...
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Marp - A lightweight Markdown Presentation Ecosystem
Marp (Markdown Presentation Ecosystem) is a documentationfirst presentation tool: you write Markdown, and Marp converts it into polished slides. That sounds simple, but it solves a...
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Scade.pro
Scade.pro is a nocode AI workflow platform focused on combining many models and modalities (text, image, audio, video) behind one product surface. Its strongest promise is...