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GitHub gems: open-source software from small creators1,155 projects

Open-source software and games found on GitHub: recent or active projects that are still little known. Every entry is checked at the source; the figures shown (stars, dates) are GitHub’s as of the last check.

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devtrack

Self-hosting · independent developernew

Open-source developer productivity dashboard - GitHub stats, PR metrics, streaks & goals.

★ 293TypeScript · MITGitHub ↗

Self-hosted Docker fleet manager in a single binary: Compose stacks across hosts with agents, backups, reverse proxy, roles and SSO.

★ 20Go · AGPL-3.0-onlyGitHub ↗

Dynamic Ledge (formerly Dynamic Notch) turns your MacBook's notch into a live display, like the iPhone's Dynamic Island: music, timers, calls, calendar, a file tray, clipboard, notes and more. Free software.

★ 16Swift · GPL-3.0-onlyGitHub ↗

erings

Legal emulation · independent developernew

erings is a console and retro computer emulator, available on Windows, macOS and Linux.

★ 50Go · GPL-3.0-onlyGitHub ↗

fastiplayer

Multimedia · independent developernew

Open media player with live timeline scrubbing, pitch-preserving speed control, real-time video color and animated UI. Early alpha · Active development · Linux-first · Source builds.

★ 3Rust · MITGitHub ↗

file-explorer

Linux · independent developernew

Just another file explorer: fast, keyboard-first, GPU-rendered file manager for Linux (C, SDL3).

★ 6C · MITGitHub ↗

flut-v

Multimedia · independent developernew

A beautiful, cross-platform media player built with Flutter.

★ 4Dart · MITGitHub ↗

fluxfiles

Networks & servers · independent developernew

Standalone, embeddable PHP 8.1+ file manager. Files stay on your own storage: Local, AWS S3, Cloudflare R2 or SFTP. JWT-scoped access, with adapters for Laravel, WordPress, React and Vue.

★ 8PHP · MITGitHub ↗

fooyin is a music player, available on Windows and Linux: playlists.

★ 2,668C++ · GPL-3.0-or-laterGitHub ↗

furman

Networks & servers · independent developernew

furman is a file manager, available on macOS: built-in terminal and Git integration.

★ 17Rust · GPL-3.0-onlyGitHub ↗

gitoui

Development · independent developernew

A terminal UI (TUI) for git with a rich commit graph, written in Rust.

★ 145Rust · MITGitHub ↗

gmd

Development · independent developernew

A terminal Git client with a branch graph where you choose which branches are shown. Linux, macOS, Windows.

★ 6C# · MITGitHub ↗

goinfer

Artificial intelligence · independent developernew

Pure-Go, no-cgo local LLM inference — run Gemma, Qwen, Llama and friends from safetensors or GGUF in a single static binary.

★ 26Go · MITGitHub ↗

gonas

Self-hosting · independent developernew

🚀 Ultra-lightweight self-hosted Cloud NAS & Web File Manager in pure Go (< 7MB single binary, ~6.4MB RAM). Rich document viewers, multi-volume pooling, UAC & Docker.

★ 22Go · MITGitHub ↗

goodwebtools

Development · independent developernew

Privacy-first daily-driver web tools that run entirely in your browser.

★ 12TypeScript · MITGitHub ↗

granary

Self-hosting · independent developernew

A unofficial native Windows client for Silo Server, the self-hosted media server.

★ 4C# · AGPL-3.0-onlyGitHub ↗

grawji

Multimedia · independent developernew

Fujifilm raw converter: develop RAFs through the camera's own engine.

★ 35Python · GPL-3.0-onlyGitHub ↗

grut

Development · independent developernew

A terminal file explorer with full Git and GitHub integration, AI chat, and reactive panels that stay in sync as you navigate.

★ 71Go · MITGitHub ↗

ha-auto-organizer

Self-hosting · independent developernew

Auto-label, area-assign and icon your Home Assistant entities — rule-based, DE/EN, 400+ keywords, no cloud.

★ 4Python · MITGitHub ↗

ha-calendar-card

Self-hosting · independent developernew

Custom Lovelace calendar card for Home Assistant — multi-calendar agenda view with per-calendar colors, compact & full modes, visual editor support (HACS).

★ 3JavaScript · MITGitHub ↗

Home Assistant integration, installed from the Marketplace or HACS, that sets up and updates Android wall panels such as the Sonoff NSPanel Pro, Shelly Wall Display and Tuya TPA10: your dashboards, the panel's hardware…

★ 18Python · Apache-2.0GitHub ↗

ha-integration-watchdog

Self-hosting · independent developernew

Home Assistant integration that reloads the integrations whose entities are all unavailable, safely (never during startup, no reload loop), with notifications and a Lovelace card showing the status and the recent…

★ 3JavaScript · MITGitHub ↗

ha-nova

Artificial intelligence · independent developernew

Use Home Assistant from Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, and other AI apps, safely. Each device pairs on its own, and risky changes wait for your OK.

★ 20Go · MITGitHub ↗

ha-rbac

Self-hosting · independent developernew

Role-based access control for Home Assistant. Guests see the lights, kids get their own dashboard, nobody sees where your phone is.

★ 109Python · MITGitHub ↗

ha-texecom

Self-hosting · independent developernew

Texecom Premier Elite alarm panels in Home Assistant: Texecom Connect (SmartCom/ComIP) or Crestron. Installable through HACS. Unofficial.

★ 8Python · MITGitHub ↗