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The 25 product categories in the directory, largest first. The category comes from Jev, TypeSafe’s classifier, which reads a repository’s own name, description and homepage and picks the one category that fits best — so this is a judgment about each project, not a tag its maintainers chose. Counts are as of the snapshot of 2026-09-22; projects the classifier could not place in any category are left out rather than filed under a guess.
25 categories · 695 of the 721 repos · snapshot of 2026-09-22. Or read the whole directory by ship status →
Developer tools
Editors, coding agents, CI/CD, API clients and terminals: software for the people who write software.
87
54 pushed within 30 days of 2026-09-22
AI apps and agents
Chat apps, agents and assistants people actually use, plus the frameworks they are built on.
85
64 pushed within 30 days of 2026-09-22
Productivity
Notes, docs, wikis, boards and calendars — the daily surface teams work on together.
63
55 pushed within 30 days of 2026-09-22
Communication
Chat, email, video and community platforms you can run yourself instead of renting.
42
35 pushed within 30 days of 2026-09-22
Design and creative
Design, image, video, audio and 3D tools for making things rather than shipping them.
41
34 pushed within 30 days of 2026-09-22
Networking and privacy
VPNs, tunnels, proxies, DNS, ad blockers and browsers — controlling your own traffic.
38
27 pushed within 30 days of 2026-09-22
Security and identity
Authentication, access management, secrets, password managers and security scanning.
37
29 pushed within 30 days of 2026-09-22
Databases
Databases, data stores and the tooling that runs them, from relational engines to vector search.
36
28 pushed within 30 days of 2026-09-22
Personal cloud and media
Self-hosted photos, video, music, file sync and home automation: a cloud that lives in your house.
35
28 pushed within 30 days of 2026-09-22
DevOps and hosting
Deployment platforms, orchestration, server management and infrastructure as code.
28
22 pushed within 30 days of 2026-09-22
AI infrastructure
Serving, inference, training, gateways and evaluation — the layer underneath every AI product.
24
20 pushed within 30 days of 2026-09-22
Observability
Metrics, logs, traces, error tracking and uptime monitoring: knowing what production is doing.
23
22 pushed within 30 days of 2026-09-22
Business, CRM and finance
CRM, ERP, invoicing, accounting and HR — the systems a company runs its operations on.
20
15 pushed within 30 days of 2026-09-22
Automation
Workflow and integration platforms that connect the tools a company already pays for.
19
14 pushed within 30 days of 2026-09-22
Ecommerce
Storefronts, carts, payments, subscriptions and billing for selling things online.
16
11 pushed within 30 days of 2026-09-22
Analytics
Open-source product and web analytics, business intelligence and dashboards over your own data.
15
15 pushed within 30 days of 2026-09-22
Games
Games, game engines, emulators and entertainment apps.
15
12 pushed within 30 days of 2026-09-22
CMS and websites
Content management, blogging, docs and website builders — everything that puts words on the web.
14
12 pushed within 30 days of 2026-09-22
Backend platforms
Batteries-included backends that bundle database, auth and storage so an app can ship without one.
11
10 pushed within 30 days of 2026-09-22
Low-code
Internal tool builders, admin panels and form builders for teams who need an app, not a codebase.
10
9 pushed within 30 days of 2026-09-22
Search
Search engines and search infrastructure, from site search to semantic retrieval.
10
7 pushed within 30 days of 2026-09-22
OS and hardware
Operating systems, firmware, device software and hardware projects close to the metal.
9
8 pushed within 30 days of 2026-09-22
Marketing and support
Helpdesks, live chat, email marketing, newsletters and surveys for talking to customers.
8
6 pushed within 30 days of 2026-09-22
Data engineering
Pipelines, orchestration and integration — the plumbing that moves data from where it lands to where it is used.
6
4 pushed within 30 days of 2026-09-22
Learning
Flashcards, language learning and course platforms built for studying rather than reading.
3
3 pushed within 30 days of 2026-09-22
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Snapshot of 2026-09-22 · 721 repos in the directory · every number on this page is measured against that date, not against today. We report the last verified push, never “actively maintained”. How we measure it →