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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 alternative to managed platforms like...
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DeepTutor - Agent-Native Personalized Learning Assistant
DeepTutor is positioned as an agentnative personalized learning assistant, aiming to bring adaptive AI tutoring into practical learning workflows. Its core idea is to move beyond...
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dexter - Autonomous Agent for Deep Financial Research
virattt/dexter is an opensource autonomous agent focused on deep financial research workflows. It targets a highfriction domain where analysts need to gather, synthesize, and...
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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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21st.dev - AI Agent Registry, UI Components and SDK for Agent Apps
21st.dev is a developer platform focused on the agentic web stack: reusable UI components, agent templates, and an SDK for shipping AI agents faster. Instead of building every part...
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addyosmani/agent-skills - Production-Grade Engineering Skills for Coding Agents
addyosmani/agentskills is a highprofile opensource repository focused on productiongrade engineering skills for AI coding agents. It aims to make agent behavior more reliable by...
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AGENTS.md - Open Standard Instructions for Coding Agents
AGENTS.md is an open Markdown convention for documenting instructions specifically for coding agents. It complements README.md by separating humanoriented onboarding from...
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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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What is Google Firebase?
Firebase is Google’s application development platform for teams that want to build, ship, and operate apps quickly without assembling every backend component from scratch. It...
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Deploy and Run the Unifi Controller on a Synology Nas with Docker - Virtualblog.nl
Deploying and running the UniFi Controller on a Synology NAS using Docker involves a few key steps. First, it requires setting up Docker on the Synology NAS, a process that can...
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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...