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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/hyperknot on 2024-10-24 14:54:52+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/Deep-Piece3181 on 2024-10-24 07:09:00+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/Felladrin on 2024-10-23 20:02:16+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/spignelon on 2024-10-23 10:35:15+00:00.

Hey everyone! 👋

I built a small Python tool called ShareDir because of a problem I ran into during a hackathon at college. I needed to share some files with a friend, but the WiFi was super slow (20kbps!), and we didn’t have mobile network either. My friends didn’t want to install other tools like LocalSend, so I thought—why not make something easy and quick myself?

ShareDir is a super simple tool that lets you share files and folders over LAN or a VPS without needing both parties to install anything. Just run a single command, and it generates a shareable URL and a QR code. The other person just needs to open the URL in their browser—no extra software needed!

Features:

• 🔒 Passphrase Protection to keep things secure
• 🌐 Works on LAN or Internet (VPS-friendly)
• 📱 QR Code for easy access
• 💻 No need for both sides to install the tool
• 🛡️ Blacklist feature to prevent brute force attacks
• 🌙 Dark mode web interface for comfort

If you're looking for a lightweight and user-friendly way to share files quickly without needing a stable internet connection, give ShareDir a try!

Would love any feedback! 🙌

GitHub:

PyPI: pip install sharedir

(Use Termux if you want to run it on your Android phone)

If you find it useful, make sure to star the repo :)

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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/moremat_ on 2024-10-23 18:00:13+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/amoopa on 2024-10-23 09:37:45+00:00.

TL;DR - we just launched Medusa 2.0, our biggest upgrade to our open-source project to date

Launch link: producthunt.com/posts/medusa-2-0

Heyyo, Medusa co-founder here.

I’m excited to share some huge news about our open-source project, which started as a single-company project and has since become the most-starred ecommerce repo on GitHub and gotten more than a million npm downloads.

It’s been an incredible journey, and our first launch back in start 2022 feels like lightyears behind us. What we’re introducing today has been in the works for nearly 12 months.

The new platform takes a fundamentally different approach to building commerce applications. We’ve modularized our entire platform from one headless system to 17 separate commerce modules, all supported by a framework that enables custom data models, business logic, Admin extensions, workflows, and more.

Our goal is to combine the best of developer tools with the core commerce functionality that platforms like Shopify and other closed solutions offer. The result is a platform that empowers developers and excels when custom logic is needed. Now customizations don't require hacky workarounds, large development teams, or months of work.

This is a huge milestone for us, and we hope you will help support our launch! 🤍

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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/Glacierpark-19 on 2024-10-22 08:18:28+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/cesariofs_ on 2024-10-21 22:06:48+00:00.

Exactly as the title says.

I've recently gotten into the industry and I love coding so much that I decided to start an Open-Source project and people are liking it and I'm getting positive feedback.

As someone who learnt development at home (autodidact) this means the world to me :DD.

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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/sohimaster on 2024-10-21 19:27:18+00:00.

Hey everyone!

I recently built an open-source tool which allows you to decrypt and retrieve saved passwords from Firefox's password manager. It’s especially useful if you need to recover forgotten passwords or audit stored credentials.

Features:

• Simple command-line interface.
• Cross-platform (Linux, Windows, Mac).
• Supports decryption of both login and password fields.
• Quick setup and easy to use.

This tool can be particularly useful for sysadmins, cybersecurity professionals, or anyone dealing with password recovery.

I'd love to hear feedback, suggestions, or contributions from the community! You can check out the repository ().

Thanks, and I hope some of you find it useful!

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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/lfnovo on 2024-10-21 18:26:37+00:00.

Hi everyone,

I'm a bit obsessed with learning, and lately I've been diving deep into AI-assisted learning tools.

I really liked Google's Notebook LM, but after using it daily, I got frustrated with its limitations—missing features, and a lack of customization options that I wanted. So, I decided to create my own open-source alternative: **Open Notebook**.

GitHub: Open Notebook

The first version is already up and running, and here are some of the features it delivers:

• Unlimited Notebooks: Create as many research notebooks as you want.
• Unlimited Sources and Notes: Add PDFs, links, videos, and more—plus your notes.
• Contextual AI Assistance Use your sources and notes as context when chatting with the AI.
• Keyword & Vector Search: Built-in tools to help you find what you need, fast.

And there's more in the pipeline for next week's release:

• Podcast Generator: Convert your notes into a podcast format.
• Multi-Model Support: Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, Ollama support coming soon.
• Enhanced Citations: Improved layout and more control for citations.
• Insight Generation*: Tools to create insights from notes, based on the Fabric framework.
• Smarter Summarization & Embeddings: Better ways to distill and represent information.
• Multiple Chat Sessions: Juggle different discussions within the same notebook.
• Async Processing: Faster UI via asynchronous content processing.
• Cross-Notebook Sources & Notes: Share and reuse notes across different projects.
• Bookmark Integration: Sync with your favorite bookmarking apps.

I’d love to hear your feedback on the project! It's still a very alpha version, but it already delivers a lot of value. Your feedback will be my fuel to keep improving it.

Also, if anyone is interested in contributing, I'm especially looking for a front-end developer to help replace Streamlit as the UI framework. And of course, if you're a Python developer, there's plenty of feature work to dive into. Let me know if you're interested!

Thanks for reading, and happy learning! ✨

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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/iamarsenibragimov on 2024-10-21 14:50:21+00:00.

Last week, I made my first-ever pull requests to two different open-source projects that I've been using for a while in my work. Today, I received notifications that both of my contributions were accepted and merged into the main products. It's a great feeling knowing that the improvements I suggested are now available to tens of thousands of developers.

It's a cool way to deliver value, not just through my own products, but by contributing to tools that the broader community relies on.

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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/Karmaseed on 2024-10-20 05:53:19+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/mau-meda on 2024-10-20 07:47:26+00:00.

I recently shared an open source project I created in e/selfhosted and received a lot of negative comments about my project and my persona.

I don't get why people are so negative, I spent months writing code in my free time, I didn't ask money or forced anyone to use my project. So why being so negative? And on top of that without neither reading the code ( I doubt one-two minutes is enough time to get an idea of how a code is like )

Does final users of a specific tool feel attacked if a new open sourced tool is the same category is created?

And going back to the title, what makes you go through the negativity and contribute to the open source world?

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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/bigkme on 2024-10-18 14:43:54+00:00.

Do you know of any open source application that can draw database diagrams like draw.io?

I'm looking for alternatives because I don't like too much of this app.

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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/jlpcsl on 2024-10-17 08:39:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/FPVogel on 2024-10-17 09:36:43+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/CrankyBear on 2024-10-16 20:50:34+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/n0vella_ on 2024-10-16 18:25:21+00:00.

You probably don't need a podcast client for desktop, you can leave the post, unless you are curious.

Between all this AI noise and hype, I needed something simple, a podcast client for desktop, so I made it.

It's just a simple, carefully designed, lightweight app compatible with nextcloud-gpodder and gpoder API's, so your episodes position and subscriptions could be synced between devices, and even with other apps.

Some people here already now, but it's a weird feeling when you know you have a good product, at a good price (It's free and always will be) and people doesn't know it. Spotify has a lot of money to spend on marketing, I'm only have my Reddit account and word of mouth.

But no one said that beginnings are easy, so Cardo is still here, better than ever, with less bugs and new features, it's not mature of course, but it is my daily use app, and I love it.

Hope you love it too.

LINK

REPO

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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/codeandfire on 2024-10-15 15:59:32+00:00.

Hi,

Why do we still see SaaS firms with high valuations when - I guess it's not supremely difficult to come up with an open-source alternative for the software product that they are selling?

I'm not talking about LLMs which are pretty sophisticated tech. As in, I can understand why companies like the-company-headed-by-Sam-Altman (can't mention the name directly since it gets the attention of the AutoModerator bot) are so valuable, because it's going to take time for an open-source effort to reach the same standard as their proprietary LLMs.

But I'm talking about companies like Postman. I know that they do open-source some of their software but I believe the main client is proprietary. And this startup was once valued at $5.6B (recently they have seen a cut).

I guess it's not that difficult to build an open-source alternative to something like Postman (and there must already be open-source alternatives available for it). Then why are such SaaS firms valued so high? Is it:

• the commercial support,
• or that they've been established as the market leader and nobody sees any reason to use anything else,
• or that it's difficult for an open-source effort to replicate all the functionality that they've built into their product so far (the open-source effort is always a few features behind),
• or that people are willing to pay for features like cloud hosting, etc.?

The same thing goes for say, Slack and Zulip. I don't think Zulip's parent (Kandra Labs) is very valuable but Slack's parent (earlier Slack Technologies and now Salesforce) certainly is (of course Salesforce has many products besides Slack, but you get the point).

Thanks!

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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/Alias_X_ on 2024-10-15 03:19:17+00:00.

GIMP is even complicated by full sized image editor standards (Photoshop competitors), I only need something for basic cutting, fusing, overlays and adding text in different fonts and colours, plus occationally basic colour corrections. Mostly cleaning up/cropping photos and making memes.

Basically an alternative to Paint 3D. Something you could use with almost no learning curve while drunk in the middle of the night. Idc if has only 10% the features of a full tool. Only things worth mentioning I haven't implied yet are a resizing tool (pixel/percent), a fill and a colour pickup tool.

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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/nikitarevenco on 2024-10-15 04:48:01+00:00.

From my contributions, I've noticed that maintainers will usually never edit your PR directly but rather ask you to change it.

This also applies to extremely trivial and 1 line changes. For the longest time I've wondered why this is the case.

It usually takes more time for them to ask me to do it, then if they just did it themselves. Genuinely curious why.

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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/buovjaga on 2024-10-13 14:45:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/pulsar17 on 2024-10-13 19:12:42+00:00.

Introducing Inkscape version 1.4! New & updated features include Filter Gallery Dialog, Modular Grids, Swatches Dialog & more file import/export options. Power Users, this one's for you! Read all about 1.4:

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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/Hary06 on 2024-10-13 18:15:57+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/Beginning_Dot_1310 on 2024-10-13 18:48:37+00:00.

hey guys,

when i first started my side project, it was just for fun — to learn some new things and solve a problem i had with native kubectl port-forward (and figured it might help others too). back then, i didn’t think much about the license. i saw MIT was popular and really permissive, so i just went with it without overthinking it.

now the project has grown a bit, and i’ve realized that MIT doesn’t cover a lot of issues that bother me in some projects. so i started reading up on licenses, and the ones that stood out to me were the copyleft ones, like GPLv3. it feels like it provides more protection and lines up better with my values, so i switched the project to GPLv3 in this PR

MIT is super permissive — anyone can use the code, even companies, and they don’t have to share any changes with the community. that didn’t sit right with me, since the whole point of my project was to keep it open and collaborative. with GPLv3, if someone modifies and redistributes the code, they have to share those changes. it keeps that open source vibe alive.

what do you all think? does it seem like the right move?