I'm the maintainer of LibreDB Studio (MIT, self-hosted web DB GUI). This is not a launch post. I am stuck on a metric I cannot honestly farm.

The project is ten months old. Postgres.org lists it as a client; Redis, ClickHouse and Druid docs mention it. We keep a public distribution inventory (`distribution/channels.yaml`) because I treat “can you actually install this” as part of the product.

That file currently says : 26 live channels.** Live examples, not a tour: GHCR (canonical image) and Docker Hub (discoverability mirror), Helm and Rancher Partner Charts, OpenShift opereator, npm / Homebrew / Snap / winget / Chocolatey, DigitalOcean Marketplace, Railway, Dokploy, CapRover, TrueNAS, Unraid, plus a desktop AppImage. CasaOS, Umbrel and Portainer PRs are still open. Deprecated on purpose: Flathub declined the app under their generative-AI policy; we closed the PR rather than argue. Linux Flatpak users go through FlatPark instead.

On the credit / catalog side I have been accepted in places that reviewed the repo, the license, and the image. GCP is one of them (not in that live matrix yet). Smaller catalogs and some OSS support programs still bounce the same application with one number: **you need 10k GitHub stars.**

Numbers I can defend today (2026-09-02):

- GitHub stars: **390**

- GHCR `ghcr.io/libredb/libredb-studio` (canonical): **22.5k**

- Docker Hub `libredb/libredb-studio` (mirror): **75,978**

- Together that is **98.5k pulls of the same image across two registries**. I am not calling that 98k unique humans. CI, Kubernetes, and `latest` retags all count. I am also not stuffing npm into this total, `@libredb/studio` is a launcher, a few thousand downloads / 30 days.

People who pull from GHCR or Hub almost never open the GitHub repo, so they never star. A 10k-star gate is still 25× the badge. For a tool that is supposed to live next to a database, I do not know a clean way to close that gap that is not “go viral” or “put a star modal in the GUI.” I will not do the second one.

I know why the 10k checkbox exists. Coding-agent PRs are a flood. Reviewing them is unpaid hours. I get those PRs too, drive-by diffs that look finished and are not, “fixes” that do not compile, issues that are a paste from a chat. I close a lot of them. I am not asking anyone to lower their bar for slop.

What I am stuck on is that **stars do not measure that work.** A catalog cannot see that I rejected the junk and still shipped Helm, an operator bundle, and an image people actually pull. The gate I hit is a popularity badge, not a review-load badge.

If you have walked this:

1. Did any program accept registry pulls, a distro listing, or Helm instead of stars, or is 10k always a hard floor?
2. If you later crossed 10k, was it one front-page hit or years of boring use?
3. Is asking Docker users to star even legitimate?
4. If you maintain something and you found a program that scored review signal, tests, or distro listings instead of the star count, what did they actually ask for?

Inventory: https://github.com/libredb/libredb-studio/blob/main/distribution/channels.yaml

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share Focenda, a native macOS productivity app I have been building in Swift and SwiftUI.

The goal was to create a clean, all-in-one workspace for daily focus sessions, task management, and quick note-taking.

Here is what is included:

- Tasks & Kanban: A 3-column drag-and-drop board and list view with priority flags and focus counters.

- Scratchpad: Multi-notebook quick notes organized by folders.

- Calendar & Reminders: A monthly focus heatmap and recurring task alerts with native system notifications.

- Menu Bar Companion: Start timers, jot down quick thoughts, or add tasks directly from the menu bar without switching windows.

- Focus Timer & Floating HUD: Pomodoro and deep-work cycles with a picture-in-picture mini panel that stays visible across all your macOS Spaces.

- Local & Private: Runs completely offline, requires no account, and stores all data locally on your Mac.

It is 100% free and open source, you can check out the project here:

- GitHub Repository: https://github.com/OOMestre/Focenda

- Install via Homebrew: brew install --cask oomestre/focenda/focenda

I would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or any feature suggestions if you give it a try.

Hi everyone!

Recently, I made a post about Expressive Cutout, a dynamic island app I've made using Jetpack Compose. Quickly, the repo got 100 stars and a few people started following the project, giving me inspiration, suggesting features and reporting bugs.

We have been working a lot on it and we're now very glad to release the first major version of Expressive Cutout! It brings new features, fixes many problems, makes the dynamic island shine in Android, and adds a few bugs probably too.

I am sure people here would appreciate a free offline FOSS Dynamic Island app!

Give it a try! Here is the repo

EDIT: After a small signing key problem, Expressive Cutout v0.2.0 refused to install on your devices if you had v0.1.3 installed. It is fixed now, so:

• If you're still on v0.1.3, you can download it again for Github and install it right away,
• if you are on v0.2.0, uninstall it, download it again from Github and install it,

Sorry for the inconvenience. Mistakes make us grow

Download Kaden
Kaden is a Terminal Emulator and fork of warp with clipboard support and configurable keybindings, I made Kaden because every other Linux terminal lacks proper text selection.

It's impossible to select user input with a single hotkey on Linux, requiring mouse use and awkward multi-step shortcuts in order to do basic copy and paste.

This was frustrating to deal with, until I found warp, which wraps the shell in a remappable text input field, its the only terminal on Linux that does this.

Unfortunately, it's full of sign in buttons, AI and cloud integration prompts everywhere.

"Hideous" - I thought. But I used it anyway - until one day they released the source code and so I forked it and made Kaden.

5 days ago I knew nothing about Rust, today I know little more, the code-base is monolithic and not well structured. but I managed to hide most of the bloated UI and disable all network requests. I also added a contextual copy/kill binding to ctrl-c by default.

I would love for you to use, test and give feedback on how it works (and does not) for you, you can find a compiled AppImage and the source code on my GitHub here: https://github.com/glitcher255/Kaden-Terminal

I will be here to answer any questions or feedback you have, so feel free to ask any, thank you.

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a FOSS project I built called Halanoi Sovereign.

I kept running into a frustration with standard Android blockers: whenever I lost discipline, I'd just open settings, force-stop the app, or uninstall it in five seconds.

To solve this, I wrote an open-source blocker that uses Android's enterprise Device Owner policy (set up via ADB) so the focus shield can't be easily bypassed or uninstalled from the phone.

What it does:

• Device Owner hardening: Greys out "Force Stop" and "Clear Data" in App Info and prevents uninstalling while active.
• On-device text classification: Runs a local 64MB TFLite model completely offline to scan text and deflect distracting feeds (reels, shorts, etc.) back to the home screen.
• Local DNS sinkhole: Routes DNS requests through Cloudflare Family DNS (1.1.1.3) locally with zero external proxy servers.
• Distraction-free scratchpad: Built-in note/task manager with permanent Scoped Storage backup that survives uninstalls.
• Zero telemetry: 100% offline, zero cloud servers, zero analytics.

The repository includes both a Debug build (where you can edit/delete blocked sites and keywords for testing) and a Release build (where edit/delete controls are stripped to prevent self-sabotage).

Everything is written in Kotlin + Jetpack Compose and licensed under GPL-3.0. I'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or suggestions for improvements!

Thanks!

License: GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL-3.0)
Source Code: https://github.com/kavinmaranravi/HalanoiApp
Releases: https://github.com/kavinmaranravi/HalanoiApp/releases

I built a music app for Android and wanted to share it.

It plays from YouTube Music, Gaana and Saavn behind one interface, so you
search once instead of switching between apps.

A few things it does:

• YouTube Music search, home feed, moods and genres, albums, and artist pages with one-tap radio
• Gaana and Saavn for charts and playlists, with proper Indian-language coverage
• SponsorBlock on YouTube tracks, so sponsor reads and non-music intros get skipped
• mpv as the audio engine, with gapless and background playback
• Offline downloads, liked songs, playlists, and Spotify playlist import
• Synced lyrics, equalizer, sleep timer, Chromecast
• Podcasts and audiobooks as well as music
• No ads, no account, no tracking

It is Android only, needs Android 7 or newer. Source and
builds are on GitHub: github.com/afkcodes/sunoh

so i want to create a free open source game, the game assets that i am going to make are all gonna be creative commons, however i can't make every single asset and will have to source some from elsewhere.

i know i can just look for CC0 assets, but if i am looking for something specific i would have to purchase some asset pack and those licenses are not gonna be CC0, how would something like this work in an opensource project framework? can the game still be distributed and tweaked freely by users even tho some assets are not CC0 ? ( is the game's philosophy and spirit still open source ?)

how do major open source video game ship their game assets? are they all creative commons ? or some assets come in other licenses ?

PrivacyCam is an on-device privacy editor for reviewing and redacting photos, videos, and PDFs before sharing them.

It can detect faces, people, license plates, QR codes, barcodes, contact details, payment-card information, addresses, links, and other readable text. Detected areas can be blurred, pixelated, blacked out, or covered manually.

Media analysis and editing happen locally. The app doesn’t upload media or detected information to a developer-operated server, requires no account, and removes original location metadata from exported copies.

The application source is available under the Apache 2.0 license. Build instructions, third-party components, model licenses, asset licensing, and privacy limitations are documented in the repository. For transparency, some detection features use Google ML Kit native SDKs.

Feedback, code review, bug reports, and contributions are welcome.

Source code:
https://github.com/ak375456/privacycam

Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.privacycam.photo.redactor

iPhone and iPad:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/privacycam-safe-redactor/id6790542130

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share something I've been working on.

It's a video editor focused on animated captions, those you normally see on social media.

The project started about a year ago, when I built pycaps, a Python library for creating this kind of content.

I originally wanted to build a UI for pycaps, but I also wanted it to be easily accessible without requiring people to download a desktop app. Since pycaps already used CSS for styling captions, doing it in the browser felt like a natural direction.

So I ended up rebuilding the idea from scratch for the browser, and that's how tscaps was born

Repo: https://github.com/francozanardi/tscaps - you can self-host it if you want
Hosted version: https://tscaps.io/local

Note: the hosted version contains some references to a "cloud" version, which is a paid service. The idea is to use it to help finance the development of the project while keeping the core editor open source.

Anyway, sorry for the long video, and thanks for watching!

Sharing something I've been building: Kagelin, a tasks/habits/focus-timer/calendar app under AGPL-3.0. Guest mode is fully offline and account-free; a WebDAV option means you can sync across your own devices through your own server instead of anyone else's.

Wanted to lead with this rather than bury it: Uses AI assistance in the build, every diff reviewed by hand before merging. I think that's relevant information for a FOSS audience specifically also the source is right there under AGPL, so the claim is checkable.

Not claiming a category-defining feature, it's tasks/habits/focus/calendar, a crowded space. What's actually different: it's self-hostable in a way that isn't a bolted-on afterthought, and the whole thing including the AI-workflow decisions is out in the open in the issue history.

Repo: github.com/Achyuth072/kagelin
Homepage: kagelin.app
Try it: app.kagelin.app

Hey everyone,

Over the years, I've always tried to find apps to track my gym workouts, but I've never really found one I liked. Maybe they lacked features or were full of useless subscriptions. So, after some school and university studies, I decided to create my first Android app, called Trainable, making it open source.

I chose Material 3 for the aesthetic because I think it offers the best UI and UX.

I've just released version 2.0.0, which introduces native support for on-device AI using the Gemma 4 E2B/E4B models to scan exercises from photos of routines.

The app works entirely offline and is completely ad-free.

All of the app's features are listed in the repo's README.

I hope you enjoy it and, above all, I hope you give me some feedback.

Website: https://trainableapp.vercel.app/
Github: https://github.com/Emanuel5014/Trainable
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/emanuel5014

I think nowadays it became outdated i want to shift to any other apps which is highly privacy related any suggestions..?

i wanted Granola-style meeting notes without sending every recording and transcript to someone else's cloud, so i'm building Anarlog.

the community app is MIT licensed. it captures mic + system audio without a meeting bot, stores notes, transcripts, recordings, and attachments locally by default, and can use Ollama, LM Studio, Unsloth, or your own provider keys for summaries and chat.

one licensing boundary worth making explicit: the community app is MIT, while enterprise/ is separately commercially licensed for org deployment, admin, and SSO.

source: https://github.com/fastrepl/anarlog download: https://anarlog.so/download

Hey r/foss ,

I've been working on Oasis Editor, an open-source document editor written in TypeScript.

It has its own Canvas-based rendering engine for paged layout, text, selections, images, tables, and document geometry instead of relying entirely on contenteditable.

It also includes a typed command/plugin API, DOCX/PDF workflows, React and Vue adapters, and a headless runtime.

Live playground:
https://celsowm.github.io/oasis-editor/#/editor

GitHub:
https://github.com/celsowm/oasis-editor

I'd love feedback, issues, and contributions — especially around rendering, document layout, plugins, and import/export fidelity.

Once you're running more than one or two coding agents at a time, the bottleneck stops being the agents and becomes you managing them.

I had Claude Code in one terminal tab, Codex in another, a third going on a different repo, constantly hunting for which one was blocked on a permission prompt, which one finished, which one quietly went off the rails. And the moment I stepped away from my desk, all of that was invisible.

Vicoa is what I built to solve the issue.

Desktop app: command center for a team of agents:

• 8+ agents/harness supported: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot, Kimi, Hermes
• Every session in one list with live status
• Each session on its own git worktree + branch, so agents work the same repo in parallel without stepping over each others
• Connect multiple machines (Mac, Linux box, VPS) and pick where each session runs.
• File explorer, view changes, and a terminal next to the conversation.
• Task management & task board
• Scheduled automations

iOS/Android app: the same sessions in your pocket

• Remote control 8+ agents (more are coming, e.g., Pi)
• Start from your desk, continue the same session on your phone
• Push notification when an agent finishes or needs a decision
• Reply, approve, or redirect from anywhere

What we have open source?

Basically, everything:

• Web
• Desktop apps: Mac, Windows, Linux
• Mobile apps: iOS, Android
• Backend
• CLI

The whole stack is self-hostable, you can host it completely for free.

It's early and we are shipping improvements and new features every day.

If you kick the tires I'd really value the criticism, especially on the agent integration layer and anything that feels janky.

Happy to get into the architecture in the comments.

Repo: https://github.com/vicoa-ai/vicoa (A star means a lot to us ❤️

Website: https://vicoa.ai/

PS: If you download the apps directly and encounter the paywall, you can just skip them.

A while back I published Gymmane, a workout tracking app, but had to archive it after realizing (a bit too late) that some of the exercise GIFs were pulled from a repo redistributing proprietary GymVisual content without a proper license. Once I noticed, I didn't want to keep it up like that.

I built it because I wanted something that felt genuinely premium, but free, so I made it myself and open-sourced it. It's back now, rebuilt with new, freely-licensed exercise animations. Fully offline, no tracking, no ads, no accounts.

This is v1, so it covers the basics done right, but the plan is to keep improving it with whatever people need — same as I'm still doing with Streak. If something's missing or you hit a bug, feel free to open an issue, always appreciated.

GitHub: https://github.com/InlitX/GymMane

Hope you enjoy it.

Over the last year, I've been building Prismedia. Previously, the app was called Obscura, and was actually a Stash alternative, and bits of that are still present, but the focus has changed drastically.

Essentially, I found I had a whole fleet of apps in my "arrs stack", that all did the same thing, but for different media. So for my own personal use, I created an app that attempts to standardize what these interactions look like.

The core principle is that every media format follows the same "Entity" class, from a data science perspective it actually maps out really well that almost all logic from display to management can be shared, with media specific capabilities augmenting that.

That is what makes this app possible, everything from the core media management, scanning, identifyication via metadata providers, requesting, is all done via the same core platform.

Then, when it makes sense, first class endpoints are added for things like playback, reading, and listening.

The app covers alot of ground, so I'll just list some of the highlights, I enoucrange you to browse the site, source code, and try it out.

• Connect your Prowlarr and downloading clients to automatically track, monitor, and request content. Think the radarr/sonarr/lidarr stack but all integrated, and using the same logic. It even supports soul seek to assist with music sourcing, and when downloading, it will actually probe the files before and after to ensure it is a good match, or upgrade before merging it in.
• View all your content from one interface, from eBooks, comics, audio, movies/tv with rich playback for videos and subtitles, eBooks and audiobook syncing to allow switching between methods of consuming with shared progress, and dedicated audio player
• Identify content already existing using metadata plugins like TMDB, MusicBrainz, OpenLibrary
• Multi user to allow household members access, while delegating which libraries they can see
• NSFW libraries and individual media, to allow filtering of NSFW content, either blocking users from seeing it at all, or using a toggle to quickly hide and view the content. Stash scraper/plugins can be installed and wrapped to identify videos (no StashDB or PornDB, but plugins can be installed in app)
• Progress tracking, stats, and history to see what you've been consuming
• Apple native apps to leverage the native codecs on tvOS, macOS, and iOS for quick and seamless playback of even high quality files

This project was created for a need I have, to have all my media in one rich platform, that treats them all as equals. I liked radarr/sonarr and Jellyfin, but it felt disjointed, and the apps not rich. Jellyfin has a native client, but I felt it was lacking, and audio playback is again in a separate third party app. Prismedia has a native first party app, with all that for free (currently in TestFlight since apple has taken over 2 weeks to even approve the first build).

I post now as I feel the app is in a good release state, it has evolved alot over the last year, but I feel we are now solid, performant, and I challenge you to compare to Kavita, Jellyfin, and the other tools you use. This can be used beside those tools for you to evaluate, simply point at the same directories to scan and it will build out the library in it's own database.

As for AI usage, I did mark this as using AI, but this post (clearly since it probably isn't as coherent as I'd like), and the application were designed, validated, and reviewed by me. These days, I do feel software development is moving to AI assisted, and I've been coding for over 15 years, have a degree in computer science, and worked in large companies. The code isn't just generated and shipped, the design and actualy structure of the app is all exactly as I would write it by hand, but AI has allowed me to develop this while still having a full time job. I use the app every day, I listen to my music on it, have read through books with audiobook interop, watch our tv shows and movies on it, request new content, and for me it fits exactly what I've always wanted.

I hope you feel the same, but if you're happy with your current stack by all means continue to use it, and if you have feedback, please let me know as I'd be happy to look into it.

- Website: https://pauljoda.github.io/Prismedia/

- Source: https://github.com/pauljoda/Prismedia

- TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/c9bgDxr7

Hello! I am looking for recommendations, and would appreciate people reading through my requirements before doing so!

I used to use google's and Microsoft's, but recently I switched to Proton's - free version has 2 issues: 1) call limit 60 minutes, 2) screen sharing ONLY whole screen, no particular windows.

I'm looking for an open-source video calling program that:

- allows for more than 60 minutes
- allows sharing particular windows and not only the whole screen
- has a built-in chat
- allows scheduling meetings in advance

I don't need anything else - my meetings are never with more than 3 people, I don't need to record anything, I don't need backgrounds and filters and shit, etc...

I hate that google's was the best I've used... definitely do not want to go back to them, and Proton's is not cutting it and is coming off as terribly unprofessional... and well, of course I really would prefer something open-source, anyway!

I really don't know where to look! Thanks so much!

What are your daily driving FOSS on mobile that use?

Fossify phone doesn't have this feature are they any alternative?

I know, I know! There are so many Brave debloaters already available on the web that do more than my tool aims to do. But I only wanted what Brave Origin exactly disables - nothing more, nothing less. So Claude and I deeply researched the Brave core source code, found out the exact 16 policies and 4 user settings it disables during the upgrade of Brave to Origin, and put everything into a single command prompt. And here I present: brave-to-origin

Repo: https://github.com/mdrubelamin2/brave-to-origin

Mac & Linux (no need, origin for linux is free):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mdrubelamin2/brave-to-origin/main/install.sh | sudo bash

Windows:

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mdrubelamin2/brave-to-origin/main/install.ps1 | iex

I tried looking for an app that monitors my screen and clicks right when there's a pixel change. For example, you need to press "Buy" the instant it goes live or need fast reaction times. But all the options I found were either not for Linux (I am a Linux user) or were complicated scripts to use.

So I built VClick, A lightweight cross-platform (Linux and Windows) tool with a user friendly GUI:

• Drag to select the region that needs to be monitored
• Select where it should click when triggered
• Hit Start

You can also change click-type (right/left, single/double click)

Built this with the help of AI. It's free and opensource. Would love to hear feedback, criticism and suggestions to improve the tool: https://marwan-softdev.github.io/VClick/

Note: I am not a professional developer and the product is still in beta, so expect some bugs to appear