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Open Source
Products and businesses built in the open, mapped by growth stage so you can see how far each has travelled and which milestone comes next.
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About Open Source
Open source products grow along a path of their own. The first milestone is usually a working repository that strangers can read. The next is a first outside contributor, and after that comes a release people trust enough to build on. This category maps products and businesses built in the open, so you can see which stage each has reached and what sits ahead of it.
Use the four subcategories to narrow by how the product is adopted: finished apps, code you import, software you run on your own servers, and models and tooling for AI. Listings appear newest first by default, and you can sort by community votes, which can never be bought. Every listing has a single main category, so choose the one that matches how people actually pick your product up. Use the filters to compare options before you commit to a dependency or a deployment.
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Open Source: questions answered
- What belongs in the Open Source category?
- Products and businesses whose source code is public and can be read, used or modified under a published licence. That covers finished apps, code libraries, software you host yourself, and AI models or tooling. Closed products that only offer an interface to their service belong elsewhere.
- How do I choose between the subcategories?
- Choose by how people adopt the product. If users install and use it directly, pick open source apps. If developers import it into their own code, pick developer libraries. If it runs on the buyer's own server, pick self-hosted tools. If models or training tooling are the core, pick open source AI.
- How do I get an open source project listed?
- Go to /submit and paste your website address. An AI drafts the profile from that site, and you check and edit every field before anything goes live. A paid launch costs $5; a free listing joins a queue of about 6-8 weeks.
- Can a project appear in more than one category?
- Every listing has a single main category, chosen when it is submitted and included free. A paid upgrade adds more categories for $5, which suits a product that is, for instance, both a self-hosted tool and a developer library.
- What should I check when comparing open source options?
- Read the licence first, then look at how recently the project shipped a release, whether the documentation lets a newcomer get started, and how maintainers handle outside contributions. Together these show the growth stage a project has reached and whether it is safe to build on.