40+ of the best open-source tools to build your startup

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Jul 2, 2024
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open-source-tools
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In this post, we'll explore some of the best open source projects available that can help startups get up and running in no time.
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Open source CMS & web tools 🌏

  • Builder - Drag and drop page builder and CMS.
  • Plasmic - The headless page builder for singe-page frameworks.
  • Directus - Open Data Platform for instantly turning any SQL database into an API and beautiful no-code app.
  • Webiny - Enterprise serverless CMS.
  • Hoppscotch - API development ecosystem to help create requests faster, saving precious time on development.
  • Keycloak - User authentication and session management framework.
  • Appwrite - Backend server with REST APIs to manage core backend needs.
  • Supabase - The alternative to Firebase to create a backend in two minutes.
  • Nextcloud - Self-hosted productivity platform solution.
  • Medusa - The open source alternative to Shopify to build an ecommerce store in a few minutes.

Infrastructure, analytics & observability 📊

  • Netbox - Infrastructure resource modeling application designed to empower network automation.
  • Signoz - Open-source APM to monitor applications & troubleshoot problems.
  • Grafana - Open source analytics & monitoring solution for every database.
  • Sentry - Application monitoring and error tracking software.
  • Plausible - Analytics tool you can use to check web traffic. It is a simple, lightweight and privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative.
  • Preset - Modern BI platform powered by Apache Superset.
  • Matomo - Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy.
  • PostHog - Product analytics platform.
  • Prometheus - Monitoring system with a dimensional data model, flexible query language, efficient time series database and modern alerting approach.
  • Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code SDK to create and deploy cloud software that use containers, serverless functions, hosted services, and infrastructure, on any cloud.

Customer engagement and data platform 📈

  • Odoo - Business apps that cover all your company needs: CRM, eCommerce, accounting, inventory, point of sale, project management, etc.
  • Rudderstack - All your customer data pipelines in one platform.
  • Jitsu - Fully-scriptable data ingestion engine for modern data teams.

Cybersecurity 🛡

  • CloudQuery - Assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your cloud assets.
  • CrowdSec - Collaborative IPS able to analyze visitor behavior and to provide an adapted response to all kinds of attacks.
  • Firezone - VPN Server & Firewall for teams.
  • Gravitl - WireGuard virtual networking platform (VPN).
  • Nikto - Web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items.
  • Wireshark - network protocol analyzer to see what's happening on your network at a microscopic level.

Design, product management & tooling 🛠

  • Budibase - Low-code platform for internal tools.
  • Gimp - A powerful open source photo and image editing tool.
  • Jitsi - Video conferences platform and SDK.
  • BigBluebutton - Virtual classroom software that can be used for remote meeting or events.
  • OpenProject - Project management software. Efficient classic, agile or hybrid project management in a secure environment.
  • Focalboard - Alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana - helps software development team stay aligned to complete tasks, reach milestones, and achieve goals.
  • Mattermost - secure, open source platform for communication, collaboration, and workflow orchestration across tools and teams.
  • Renovate - Get automated Pull Requests to update your dependencies.
  • Gitlab - end-to-end software development platform with built-in version control, issue tracking, code review and CI/CD.
  • Taiga.io - Easy and intuitive open source project management software for agile teams. Kanban or scrum.
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