There are a lot of open source projects just that. Open source projects for everything from productivity tools to B2B applications are at your disposal. Let's take a look at some of the projects that are worth using and some that completely replace paid software.
1. Chatwoot https://www.chatwoot.com/
Chatwoot is an open source alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, HubSpot, Salesforce Service Cloud. More than just live chat, it also supports multiple channels like email, Facebook pages, Twitter handles, WhatsApp, and more.
features:
- Shared inbox — Easily collaborating with your team with a shared inbox means you can assign different tasks in the same inbox to different agents.
- Live Chat — Add live chat widgets to your website and improve your customer experience. widget to your website and improve your customer experience.
- Channels — Supports multiple channels such as Email, WhatsApp, Twitter, Twilio, Facebook, Instagram, Line. In addition, you can access all channels from one place without having to jump between channels.
- Automation—Automate repetitive tasks.
- Chatbots — Build chatbots using Dialogflow or Rasa and connect to your inbox.
- Mobile Apps (IOS and Android) – Instantly engage with customers from anywhere using Chatwoots' IOS and Android apps.
- Integration — Integration options available for Slack, WordPress, Dialogflow, and Rasa.
2. Amplication https://amplication.com/
Amplication is a low-code/no-code tool. Build your NodeJs app in minutes along with a beautiful react admin panel. Your NodeJs app is just a few clicks away.
features:
- React Admin-UI is generated by react-admin.
- NodeJs application with Postgres database.
- GraphQL and RESTAPI.
- Sync with GitHub or download the code as a zip file.
- A sandbox environment for developing and testing your app without having to set it up locally.
- Docker supports deployment to the cloud.
Read how to quickly set up an Amplication project:
3. Docz https://www.docz.site/
Docz is an MDX-based documentation tool. It is a simple and easy alternative to Docusaurus. Don't waste time setting up a documentation site. Use docz to quickly record your projects.
features:
- Powered by Gatsby — rapid development experience and fast build times.
- Zero configuration
- Customize as much as you want.
- Based on MDX
- Plugins
- Typewriter support
4. Partytown https://partytown.builder.io/
Partytown is a lazy-loaded library that helps relocate resource-intensive scripts into the web worker thread and out of the main thread. Its goal is to help speed up your site by dedicating the main thread to your code and offloading third-party scripts to web worker threads.
If you have so many third-party scripts, such as Google Tag Manager, live chat widgets, A/B tests, trackers, they can make your website load slowly, affecting performance. With Partytown, you can load code from the main thread in the web worker thread and third-party scripts.
features:
- Integration support for Astro, Gatsby, HTML, NextJS, Nuxt, React, Remix, Hydrogen (Shopify).
- Support for a variety of third-party scripts
5. Typesense https://typesense.org/
Does your product need a super fast, easy-to-integrate search engine? The type is for you. Typesense is an open source search engine that is an alternative to Agolia and Elasticsearch.
features:
- Typo tolerance
- Easy to set up, operate, and scale.
- fast
- Dynamically sort the results based on specific fields at query time.
- Faceting and filtration
- Combine similar results.
- Search across multiple collections in a single HTTP request.
- And much more...
6. Backdrop https://backdropcms.org/
Backdrop is a free and open source content management system based on Drupal. Build highly customizable websites for free. In context, you can build anything from a personal blog site to an ecommerce site.
features:
- Plugins
- module
- Different themes
- Layout templates
7. HoppScotch https://hoppscotch.io/
HoppScotch is an open source alternative to Postman.
features:
- light
- fast
- topic
- interrupter
- GraphQL 和 REST API
- All the features postman offers
8. NokoDB https://nocodb.com/
NokoDB is an open source alternative to Airtable. Convert any database into a smart spreadsheet. Cool #nocode tool.
There are thousands of amazing open source projects available. I shared some of these things that I found interesting. Share your favorite open source projects in the comments.