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  • The All-in-One Commerce Platform for Businesses - Shopify Icon
    The All-in-One Commerce Platform for Businesses - Shopify

    Shopify offers plans for anyone that wants to sell products online and build an ecommerce store, small to mid-sized businesses as well as enterprise

    Shopify is a leading all-in-one commerce platform that enables businesses to start, build, and grow their online and physical stores. It offers tools to create customized websites, manage inventory, process payments, and sell across multiple channels including online, in-person, wholesale, and global markets. The platform includes integrated marketing tools, analytics, and customer engagement features to help merchants reach and retain customers. Shopify supports thousands of third-party apps and offers developer-friendly APIs for custom solutions. With world-class checkout technology, Shopify powers over 150 million high-intent shoppers worldwide. Its reliable, scalable infrastructure ensures fast performance and seamless operations at any business size.
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    MongoDB Atlas runs apps anywhere

    Deploy in 115+ regions with the modern database for every enterprise.

    MongoDB Atlas gives you the freedom to build and run modern applications anywhere—across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. With global availability in over 115 regions, Atlas lets you deploy close to your users, meet compliance needs, and scale with confidence across any geography.
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    The portable Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) SDK provides support for building UPnP-compliant control points, devices, and bridges on several operating systems. The main repository is at GitHub in https://github.com/pupnp/pupnp. This is just a clone repository for legacy reasons. Old SourceForge repo: git://pupnp.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/pupnp/pupnp
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    a POSIX-C implementation of the http://oauth.net/ protocol. libOauth provides functionality to encode URLs and sign HTTP request data according to the oAuth standard.
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    PDF.js

    PDF.js

    A PDF Reader in JavaScript

    PDF.js is a web standards-based platform for parsing and rendering Portable Document Formats (PDFs). Open source and built with HTML5, this PDF viewer is supported by a great community and Mozilla Labs. PDF.js can be used on both modern and older browsers, and is built into version 19+ of Firefox.
    Downloads: 124 This Week
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    PreMiD

    PreMiD

    Source code of the PreMiD application

    Source code of the PreMiD application. PreMiD is a simple, configurable utility that allows you to show what you're doing on the web in your Discord now playing status. It supports many different websites, and will support multiple users watching the same content simultaneously in an upcoming update.
    Downloads: 85 This Week
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  • Simple, Secure Domain Registration Icon
    Simple, Secure Domain Registration

    Get your domain at wholesale price. Cloudflare offers simple, secure registration with no markups, plus free DNS, CDN, and SSL integration.

    Register or renew your domain and pay only what we pay. No markups, hidden fees, or surprise add-ons. Choose from over 400 TLDs (.com, .ai, .dev). Every domain is integrated with Cloudflare's industry-leading DNS, CDN, and free SSL to make your site faster and more secure. Simple, secure, at-cost domain registration.
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    phpipam

    phpipam

    phpipam open-source IP address management

    phpipam is an open-source web IP address management application (IPAM). Its goal is to provide light, modern and useful IP address management. It is php-based application with MySQL database backend, using jQuery libraries, ajax and some HTML5/CSS3 features.
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    Downloads: 154 This Week
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    Docker Compose

    Docker Compose

    Define and run multi-container applications with Docker

    Docker Compose is an open source tool for defining and running multi-container applications with Docker. Compose lets you use a YAML file to configure your application’s services, and then create and start all the services from your configuration with just a single command. Compose works great in all environments: production, staging, testing, development, and on CI workflows. Compose has commands for every stage of your application lifecycle, from starting, stopping and rebuilding services, through to status viewing, streaming of log output and running a one-off command on a service.
    Downloads: 15 This Week
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    Java JWT

    Java JWT

    Java implementation of JSON Web Token (JWT)

    A Java implementation of JSON Web Token (JWT) - RFC 7519. This library requires Java 8 or higher. The last version that supported Java 7 was 3.11.0. The library implements JWT Verification and Signing using several algorithms. The Algorithm defines how a token is signed and verified. It can be instantiated with the raw value of the secret in the case of HMAC algorithms, or the key pairs or KeyProvider in the case of RSA and ECDSA algorithms. Once created, the instance is reusable for token signing and verification operations. When using RSA or ECDSA algorithms and you just need to sign JWTs you can avoid specifying a Public Key by passing a null value. The same can be done with the Private Key when you just need to verify JWTs.
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    Mongoose Embedded Web Server

    Mongoose Embedded Web Server

    An embedded web server

    Mongoose is a networking library for C/C++. It implements event-driven non-blocking APIs for TCP, UDP, HTTP, WebSocket, MQTT. It is designed for connecting devices and bringing them online. On the market since 2004, used by vast number of open source and commercial products - it even runs on the International Space Station! Mongoose makes embedded network programming fast, robust, and easy. Cross-platform, works on Linux/UNIX, MacOS, Windows, Android, FreeRTOS, etc. Supported embedded architectures: ESP32, NRF52, STM32, NXP, and more. Built-in protocols: plain TCP/UDP, HTTP, MQTT, Websocket. SSL/TLS support: mbedTLS, OpenSSL or custom (via API). Used to solve a wide range of business needs, like implementing Web UI interface on devices, RESTful API services, telemetry data exchange, remote control for a product, remote software updates, remote monitoring, and others.
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    Sentinel

    Sentinel

    Lightweight, powerful flow control component

    Sentinel is a powerful flow control component that ensures the reliability and monitoring of microservices by taking “flow” as the breakthrough point. It covers multiple fields including flow control, concurrency limiting, circuit breaking, and adaptive system protection.
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    Level Up Your Cyber Defense with External Threat Management

    See every risk before it hits. From exposed data to dark web chatter. All in one unified view.

    Move beyond alerts. Gain full visibility, context, and control over your external attack surface to stay ahead of every threat.
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    Apache Thrift

    Apache Thrift

    Language-independent stack for point-to-point RPC implementation

    Apache Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development. Apache Thrift allows you to define data types and service interfaces in a simple definition file. Taking that file as input, the compiler generates code to be used to easily build RPC clients and servers that communicate seamlessly across programming languages. Thrift is a lightweight, language-independent software stack for point-to-point RPC implementation. Thrift provides clean abstractions and implementations for data transport, data serialization, and application level processing. Thrift is specifically designed to support non-atomic version changes across client and server code. This allows you to upgrade your server while still being able to service older clients; or have newer clients issue requests to older servers. For more details on Thrift's design and implementation, see the Thrift whitepaper included in this distribution, or at the README.md file.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    Nomulus

    Nomulus

    Top-level domain name registry service on Google Cloud Platform

    Nomulus is a production-grade, open-source domain registry platform used to operate top-level domains (TLDs). It implements the core registry protocols—EPP for registrar interactions, WHOIS/RDAP for public data access—and manages the lifecycle of domain objects, hosts, and contacts. The system is built to scale and to enforce policy: pricing rules, reserved names, premium tiers, grace periods, and automated renewals are modeled explicitly. It integrates with DNS provisioning, data escrow, and billing so you can run a compliant registry end-to-end rather than stitching together separate services. Operators get admin tools for reporting, manual adjustments, and policy configuration, while registrars interact through standards-compliant channels. Nomulus treats registries as serious infrastructure: audited flows, durable storage, and clear extension points for custom policies and TLD-specific behavior.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    SWC

    SWC

    Rust-based platform for the Web

    SWC is an extensible Rust-based platform for the next generation of fast developer tools. It's used by tools like Next.js, Parcel, and Deno, as well as companies like Vercel, ByteDance, Tencent, Shopify, and more. SWC can be used for both compilation and bundling. For compilation, it takes JavaScript / TypeScript files using modern JavaScript features and outputs valid code that is supported by all major browsers. SWC is 20x faster than Babel on a single thread and 70x faster on four cores. SWC can be downloaded and used as a pre-built binary, or built from the source. SWC (stands for Speedy Web Compiler) is a super-fast TypeScript / JavaScript compiler written in Rust. It's a library for Rust and JavaScript at the same time. If you are using SWC from Rust, see rustdoc and for most users, your entry point for using the library will be parser. If you are using SWC from JavaScript, please refer to the docs on the website.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    gRPC

    gRPC

    High performance, open source universal RPC framework

    gRPC is a C-based high performance remote procedure call (RPC) framework that can run in any environment. It efficiently connects services in and across data centers with plenty of support, and can also connect mobile devices and browser clients to backend services. Essentially, it makes it easier for you to create distributed applications and services.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    IIPImage

    IIPImage

    IIPImage is an advanced high-performance image server and client

    IIPImage is a high performance image server and client for viewing, navigating and zooming within high resolution images on the internet. Images in TIFF or JPEG2000 format are efficiently streamed by the server to a choice of clients that can be embedded within a web page.
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    Downloads: 24 This Week
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    Apache Guacamole

    Apache Guacamole

    HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop

    Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH. We call it clientless because no plugins or client software are required. Thanks to HTML5, once Guacamole is installed on a server, all you need to access your desktops is a web browser.
    Downloads: 19 This Week
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    CloudRetro

    CloudRetro

    Web-based Cloud Gaming service for Retro Game

    CloudRetro provides an open-source cloud gaming platform for retro games. It started as an experiment for testing cloud gaming performance with WebRTC and Libretro, and now it aims to deliver the most modern and convenient gaming experience through technology. Theoretically, in cloud gaming, games are run on remote servers and media are streamed to the player optimally to ensure the most comfortable user interaction. It opens the ability to play any retro games on a web-browser directly, which are fully compatible with multi-platform like Desktop, Android, IOS. In ideal network condition and less resource contention on servers, the game will run smoothly as in the video demo. Because I only hosted the platform on limited servers in US East, US West, Eu, Singapore, you may experience some latency issues + connection problem. You can try hosting the service following the instruction the next section to have a better sense of performance.
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    Static Web Server

    Static Web Server

    A cross-platform, high-performance and asynchronous web server

    Static Web Server (or SWS abbreviated) is a tiny and fast production-ready web server suitable to serve static web files or assets. It is focused on lightness and easy-to-use principles while keeping high performance and safety powered by The Rust Programming Language. Written on top of Hyper and Tokio runtime, it provides concurrent and asynchronous networking abilities and the latest HTTP/1 - HTTP/2 implementations. Cross-platform and available for Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Android, Docker and Wasm (via Wasmer).
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    ZK - Simply Ajax and Mobile
    ZK is an open-source Java framework for building modern web and mobile applications. It enables developers to create rich, interactive UIs using only Java — no JavaScript required. With 200+ Ajax-powered components, event-driven architecture, and support for popular technologies like Spring, Java EE, and JSP/JSF, ZK makes it simple to deliver powerful and user-friendly web applications.
    Downloads: 17 This Week
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    OpenResty

    OpenResty

    High Performance Web Platform Based on Nginx and LuaJIT

    OpenResty is a full-fledged web application server that extends Nginx by seamlessly embedding LuaJIT, bundled Nginx core, numerous third-party modules, and Lua libraries—creating a powerful platform for scalable web services, APIs, and gateways. An extensive ecosystem of Lua libraries and third-party Nginx modules that interoperate cohesively. Supports scripting of SSL, process control, regex, pipes, and logging via Lua APIs. Well-supported documentation, Docker tooling, and commercial support options.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    RSS-Bridge

    RSS-Bridge

    The RSS feed for websites missing it

    The RSS feed for websites missing it.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Zeep

    Zeep

    A Python SOAP client

    A fast and modern Python SOAP client. Compatible with Python 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, and PyPy. Build on top of lxml and requests. Support for Soap 1.1, Soap 1.2 and HTTP bindings. Support for WS-Addressing headers. Support for WSSE (UserNameToken / x.509 signing) Support for asyncio via httpx. Experimental support for XOP messages. Zeep inspects the WSDL document and generates the corresponding code to use the services and types in the document. This provides an easy-to-use programmatic interface to a SOAP server. Parsing the XML documents is done by using the lxml library. This is the most performant and compliant Python XML library currently available. This results in major speed benefits when processing large SOAP responses. The SOAP specifications are unfortunately really vague and leave a lot of things open for interpretation.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    HelloNzb

    HelloNzb

    The Binary Usenet Tool

    With HelloNzb you can download (binary) files from Usenet servers via NZB index files. The software is based on Java and can thus run on many platforms (tested on Windows and Linux). Automatic archive verification via PAR2, automatic RAR archive extraction, built-in yEnc- and UU-decoding. Portable, no installation required.
    Downloads: 14 This Week
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    GeoWebCache

    GeoWebCache

    GWC is a tile server and caching proxy written in Java

    GeoWebCache is a WMS tile cache that lets you serve cached map data to WMS clients, Goole Earth, Google Maps and MS Virtual Earth. The system is pluggable on both ends and does automatic matching to the best available tile. It is very fast and scalable.
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    Downloads: 67 This Week
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    LANraragi

    LANraragi

    Web application for archival and reading of manga/doujinshi

    LANraragi is a web application for archiving and reading manga/doujinshi. Lightweight and Docker-ready, it's designed for NAS and server environments, providing a user-friendly interface for managing comic collections.​
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Web Archives

    Web Archives

    Browser extension for viewing archived and cached versions of websites

    Browser extension for viewing archived and cached versions of web pages, available for Chrome, Edge and Safari. Web Archives is a browser extension that enables you to find archived and cached versions of web pages, and comes with support for more than 10 search engines. Searches can be initiated from the context menu and the browser toolbar. A diverse set of archive and cache sources are supported, which can be toggled and reordered from the extension's options. Visit the wiki for the full list of supported search engines. You may choose to allow the extension to run on every website, or grant access to the current website before a search. When you grant access only to the current website, access must also be granted to each search engine in order to view search results. A handful of search modes are offered that serve different use cases. The search mode can be set independently for the context menu and the browser toolbar from the extension's options.
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