Topic
Open-source startups tagged #developer-tools
25 open-source startups in this directory carry the GitHub topic #developer-tools. 17 pushed code within 30 days of the snapshot of 2026-09-22, 4 have been quiet for 31β120 days, 4 have not pushed in over 120 days. Topics are set by each repositoryβs own maintainers, so this is what those projects chose to call themselves rather than a category we assigned.
17 of 25 pushed within 30 days of the snapshot of 2026-09-22. How we measure it β
The list
All 25, most-starred first.
The last column is the most recent push GitHub reported to us on 2026-09-22. It counts a push to any branch, by a person or a bot β it is not a claim that anyone is maintaining the project, and a quiet repository may be a finished one.
| Project | What it does | Stars | Ship status | Last verified push |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All-Hands-AI/OpenHands | π OpenHands: AI-Driven Development | 88.8K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| hoppscotch/hoppscotch | Open-Source API Development Ecosystem β’ https://hoppscotch.io β’ Offline, On-Prem & Cloud β’ Web, Desktop & CLI β’ Open-Source Alternative to Postman, Insomnia | 80.5K | Still shipping | Sep 21, 2026 |
| daytonaio/daytona | Daytona is a Secure and Elastic Infrastructure for Running AI-Generated Code | 71.7K | Slowed | Jul 24, 2026 |
| localstack/localstack | π» A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline | 65.1K | Gone silent | Mar 23, 2026 |
| usebruno/bruno | Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing API's (lightweight alternative to Postman/Insomnia) | 47.1K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| appsmithorg/appsmith | Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API. | 40.9K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| lapce/lapce | Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust | 38.9K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| continuedev/continue | open-source coding agent | 36K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| TabbyML/tabby | Self-hosted AI coding assistant | 33.9K | Slowed | Jun 30, 2026 |
| Pythagora-io/gpt-pilot | The first real AI developer | 33.7K | Slowed | Jun 18, 2026 |
| responsively-org/responsively-app | A modified web browser that helps in responsive web development. A web developer's must have dev-tool. | 25.2K | Still shipping | Sep 20, 2026 |
| marimo-team/marimo | A reactive notebook for Python β run reproducible experiments, query with SQL, execute as a script, deploy as an app, and version with git. Stored as pure Python. All in a modern, AI-native editor. | 22.9K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| wavetermdev/waveterm | An open-source, AI-integrated, cross-platform terminal for seamless workflows | 22.3K | Still shipping | Sep 10, 2026 |
| dailydotdev/daily | daily.dev is the personalized developer news feed and community. Get the best tech content from all over the web in your browser new tab or on mobile. Free and open source. | 20.1K | Still shipping | Sep 14, 2026 |
| iii-hq/iii | Effortlessly compose, extend, and observe every service in real-time for the first time ever. | 18.8K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| getpaseo/paseo | Orchestrate multiple coding agents from desktop and mobile | 18.1K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| Automattic/harper | Offline, privacy-first grammar checker. Fast, open-source, Rust-powered | 15.8K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| plandex-ai/plandex | Open source AI coding agent. Designed for large projects and real world tasks. | 15.7K | Gone silent | Oct 3, 2025 |
| loft-sh/devpod | Codespaces but open-source, client-only and unopinionated: Works with any IDE and lets you use any cloud, kubernetes or just localhost docker. | 15.2K | Gone silent | Nov 14, 2025 |
| superset-sh/superset | Superset is an agentic IDE to orchestrate 100+ coding agents in parallel. Run any agent with your own subscription. | 14.5K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| semantica-agi/semantica | Graph-Native Infrastructure for Context and Accountable AI Systems | 13.4K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| zealdocs/zeal | Offline documentation browser. Your personal reference library, searchable in an instant. | 12.8K | Still shipping | Sep 9, 2026 |
| illacloud/illa-builder | Low-code platform allows you to build business apps, enables you to quickly create internal tools such as dashboard, crud app, admin panel, crm, cms, etc. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, Supabase, GraphQL, MongoDB, MSSQL, Rest API, Hugging Face, Redis, etc. Automate workflows with schedule or webhook. Open source Retool. | 12.3K | Slowed | May 27, 2026 |
| grafana/pyroscope | Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code | 11.7K | Still shipping | Sep 21, 2026 |
| triggerdotdev/jsonhero-web | JSON Hero is an open-source, beautiful JSON explorer for the web that lets you browse, search and navigate your JSON files at speed. π. Built with π by the Trigger.dev team. | 10.9K | Gone silent | Nov 28, 2025 |
Related collections
Sideways from here.
The 8 largest other topics in the directory, then the other ways to slice it. Every count is as of the snapshot of 2026-09-22.
Snapshot of 2026-09-22 Β· 721 repos in the directory Β· every number on this page is measured against that date, not against today. What this measurement cannot tell you β