The Hottest Open Source Projects Of 2023

In this post, we're doing something special: We're basing our insights on hard data from our newsletters throughout the year including:

Every click you've made is a vote for what's hot and what's not in the open source world. We've analyzed thousands of interactions to identify the tools that have truly captured the attention and imagination of the FAUN Developer Community.

Let's dive in!

apache/incubator-pekko

ℹ️ Description: Apache Pekko is an open-source framework for building applications that are concurrent, distributed, resilient, and elastic. Pekko uses the Actor Model to provide more intuitive high-level abstractions for concurrency.

Using these abstractions, Pekko also provides libraries for persistence, streams, HTTP, and more. Pekko is a fork of Akka 2.6.x, prior to the Akka project's adoption of the Business Source License.

⭐ Stars: 819

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/apache/incubator-pekko

ziglang/zig

ℹ️ Description: Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

⭐ Stars: 27613

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/ziglang/zig

WalletConnect/web-examples

ℹ️ Description: Catalogue of various wallet and dapp examples implementing WalletConnect's SDKs and APIs. Each example contains its own README with further instructions and explanations.

⭐ Stars: 247

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/WalletConnect/web-examples

skupperproject/skupper

ℹ️ Description: Skupper enables cloud communication by enabling you to create a Virtual Application Network. This application layer network decouples addressing from the underlying network infrastructure. This enables secure communication without a VPN.

⭐ Stars: 479

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/skupperproject/skupper

ultralytics/ultralytics

ℹ️ Description: Ultralytics YOLOv8 is a cutting-edge, state-of-the-art (SOTA) model that builds upon the success of previous YOLO versions and introduces new features and improvements to boost performance and flexibility further.

YOLOv8 is designed to be fast, accurate, and easy to use, making it an excellent choice for a wide range of object detection and tracking, instance segmentation, image classification and pose estimation tasks.

⭐ Stars: 17244

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics

upscayl/upscayl

ℹ️ Description: Upscayl lets you enlarge and enhance low-resolution images using advanced AI algorithms. Enlarge images without losing quality. It's almost like magic!

Upscayl is a cross-platform application built with the Linux-first philosophy. This means that Linux users receive pre-release builds earlier, but Upscayl itself is available on all major desktop operating systems.

⭐ Stars: 20610

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl

public-apis/public-apis

ℹ️ Description: Not a tool but a useful collective list of free APIs for use in software and web development

⭐ Stars: 272745

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis

shap/shap

ℹ️ Description: A game theoretic approach to explain the output of any machine learning model.

⭐ Stars: 20780

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/slundberg/shap

AlexFlipnote/GiveMeBadge

ℹ️ Description: Pretty simple Discord bot to get the active developer badge

⭐ Stars: 450

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/AlexFlipnote/GiveMeBadge

guidance-ai/guidance

ℹ️ Description: A guidance language for controlling large language models.

⭐ Stars: 15351

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/guidance/

RizwanMunawar/yolov7-object-tracking

ℹ️ Description: Object tracking using PyTorch, OpenCV and Sort Tracking

⭐ Stars: 462

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/RizwanMunawar/yolov7-object-tracking

MystenLabs/sui

ℹ️ Description: A next-generation smart contract platform with high throughput, low latency, and an asset-oriented programming model powered by the Move programming language

⭐ Stars: 5368

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/MystenLabs/sui

keyval-dev/odigos

ℹ️ Description: A tool to generate distributed traces for any application in k8s without code changes.

⭐ Stars: 2677

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/keyval-dev/odigos

cilium/tetragon

ℹ️ Description: Cilium’s new Tetragon component enables powerful real-time, eBPF-based Security Observability and Runtime Enforcement.

Tetragon detects and is able to react to security-significant events, such as process execution events, System call activity and I/O activity including network & file access. When used in a Kubernetes environment, Tetragon is Kubernetes-aware - that is, it understands Kubernetes identities such as namespaces, pods and so on - so that security event detection can be configured in relation to individual workloads.

⭐ Stars: 2981

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/cilium/tetragon

containers/podman-desktop

ℹ️ Description: Podman Desktop is a graphical interface that enables application developers to seamlessly work with containers and Kubernetes. Podman Desktop installs, configures, and keeps Podman up to date on your local environment. It provides a system tray, to check status and interact with your container engine without losing focus from other tasks.

The desktop application provides a dashboard to interact with containers, images, pods, and volumes but also configures your environment with your OCI registries and network settings. Podman Desktop also provides capabilities to connect and deploy pods to Kubernetes environments.

⭐ Stars: 3649

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop

marella/ctransformers

ℹ️ Description: Python bindings for the Transformer models implemented in C/C++ using GGML library.

⭐ Stars: 1457

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/marella/ctransformers

alibaba/higress

ℹ️ Description: Higress is a next-generation cloud-native gateway based on Alibaba's internal gateway practices.

Powered by Istio and Envoy, Higress realizes the integration of the triple gateway architecture of traffic gateway, microservice gateway and security gateway, thereby greatly reducing the costs of deployment, operation and maintenance.

⭐ Stars: 1975

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/alibaba/higress

Sanster/lama-cleaner

ℹ️ Description: Image inpainting tool powered by SOTA AI Model. Remove any unwanted object, defect, people from your pictures or erase and replace(powered by stable diffusion) any thing on your pictures.

⭐ Stars: 14508

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/Sanster/lama-cleaner

web3p/web3.php

ℹ️ Description: A php interface for interacting with the Ethereum blockchain and ecosystem. Native ABI parsing and smart contract interactions.

⭐ Stars: 1067

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/web3p/web3.php

k8sgpt-ai/k8sgpt

ℹ️ Description: k8sgpt is a tool for scanning your Kubernetes clusters, diagnosing, and triaging issues in simple English. It has SRE experience codified into its analyzers and helps to pull out the most relevant information to enrich it with AI.

⭐ Stars: 3659

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/k8sgpt-ai/k8sgpt

doitintl/kube-no-trouble

ℹ️ Description: Easily check your clusters for use of deprecated APIs

⭐ Stars: 2406

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/doitintl/kube-no-trouble

turbot/steampipe

ℹ️ Description: Zero-ETL, infinite possibilities. Live query APIs, code & more with SQL. No DB required.

⭐ Stars: 5896

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/turbot/steampipe

github/gh-actions-importer

ℹ️ Description: GitHub Actions Importer helps you plan and automate the migration of Azure DevOps, Bamboo, Bitbucket, CircleCI, GitLab, Jenkins, and Travis CI pipelines to GitHub Actions.

⭐ Stars: 904

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/github/gh-actions-importer

marcinguy/betterscan-ce

ℹ️ Description: Betterscan uses many tools for Code, Cloud, secrets, dependencies - SCA (software composition analysis) and Supply Chain Risks, and also precise Graph-based SAST analysis for Code and AI/OpenAI GPT.

⭐ Stars: 568

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/marcinguy/betterscan-ce

superseriousbusiness/gotosocial

ℹ️ Description: GoToSocial is an ActivityPub social network server, written in Golang. With GoToSocial, you can keep in touch with your friends, post, read, and share images and articles. All without being tracked or advertised to!

⭐ Stars: 3218

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial

mudler/LocalAI

ℹ️ Description: The free, Open Source OpenAI alternative. Self-hosted, community-driven and local-first. Drop-in replacement for OpenAI running on consumer-grade hardware. No GPU required.

Runs ggml, gguf, GPTQ, onnx, TF compatible models: llama, llama2, rwkv, whisper, vicuna, koala, cerebras, falcon, dolly, starcoder, and many others

⭐ Stars: 14730

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI

sensepost/gowitness

ℹ️ Description: A golang, web screenshot utility using Chrome Headless

⭐ Stars: 2482

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/sensepost/gowitness

pingdotgg/uploadthing

ℹ️ Description: File uploads for modern web devs (Next.js)

⭐ Stars: 2982

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/pingdotgg/uploadthing

chakra-ui/panda

ℹ️ Description: Panda is a universal styling solution for the modern web — build time, type safe, and scalable CSS-in-JS

⭐ Stars: 3974

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/chakra-ui/panda

BishopFox/cloudfox

ℹ️ Description: Automating situational awareness for cloud penetration tests.

⭐ Stars: 1639

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/BishopFox/cloudfox

iam-veeramalla/aws-devops-zero-to-hero

ℹ️ Description: AWS zero to hero repo for devops engineers to learn AWS in 30 Days. This repo includes projects, presentations, interview questions and real time examples.

⭐ Stars: 3158

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/iam-veeramalla/aws-devops-zero-to-hero

latticexyz/mud

ℹ️ Description: MUD is a framework for complex Ethereum applications. It adds some conventions for organizing data and logic and abstracts away low-level complexities so you can focus on the features of your app. It standardizes the way data is stored on-chain.

With this standard data model, MUD can provide all network code to synchronize contract and client state. This includes synchronizing state directly from an RPC node or a general-purpose MUD indexer.

⭐ Stars: 576

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/latticexyz/mud

teamhanko/hanko

ℹ️ Description: Hanko is an open-source authentication and user management solution with a focus on moving the login beyond passwords while being 100% deployable today.

⭐ Stars: 4915

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/teamhanko/hanko

cheshire-cat-ai/core

ℹ️ Description: Production ready AI assistant framework

⭐ Stars: 1362

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/cheshire-cat-ai/core

oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy

ℹ️ Description: A reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Azure, OpenID Connect and many more identity providers.

⭐ Stars: 7964

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy

techiescamp/kubernetes-learning-path

ℹ️ Description: A roadmap to learn Kubernetes from scratch (Beginner to Advanced level)

⭐ Stars: 6045

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/techiescamp/kubernetes-learning-path

keephq/keep

ℹ️ Description: An open-source alerts management and automation platform

⭐ Stars: 2530

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/keephq/keep

dbt-labs/dbt-core

ℹ️ Description: dbt enables data analysts and engineers to transform their data using the same practices that software engineers use to build applications.

⭐ Stars: 7989

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core

rivo/tview

ℹ️ Description: This Go package provides commonly used components for terminal based user interfaces.

⭐ Stars: 9227

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/rivo/tview

Svenskithesource/PyArmor-Unpacker

ℹ️ Description: A deobfuscator for PyArmor.

⭐ Stars: 415

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/Svenskithesource/PyArmor-Unpacker

dsdanielpark/Bard-API

ℹ️ Description: The unofficial python package that returns response of Google Bard through cookie value.

⭐ Stars: 5153

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/dsdanielpark/Bard-API

grafana/oncall

ℹ️ Description: Developer-friendly incident response with brilliant Slack integration

⭐ Stars: 3076

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/grafana/oncall

scylladb/scylladb

ℹ️ Description: NoSQL data store using the seastar framework, compatible with Apache Cassandra

⭐ Stars: 11723

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb

paperswithcode/galai

ℹ️ Description: GALACTICA is a general-purpose scientific language model. It is trained on a large corpus of scientific text and data. It can perform scientific NLP tasks at a high level, as well as tasks such as citation prediction, mathematical reasoning, molecular property prediction and protein annotation.

More information is available at galactica.org.

⭐ Stars: 2599

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/paperswithcode/galai

kubesimplify/ksctl

ℹ️ Description: Many cloud providers offer their flavor of Kubernetes. Each provider has its unique CLI tool which is used to create and manage clusters on that particular cloud. When working in a multi-cloud environment, it can be difficult to create and manage so many clusters using CLI from each cloud provider.

ksctl is a single CLI tool that can interact with a multitude of cloud providers, making it easy for you to manage multi-cloud clusters, with just a single CLI tool

⭐ Stars: 179

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/kubesimplify/ksctl

carbon-language/carbon-lang

ℹ️ Description: Carbon Language's main repository: documents, design, implementation, and related tools. (NOTE: Carbon Language is experimental; see README)

⭐ Stars: 31746

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang

trinib/Linux-Bash-Commands

ℹ️ Description: Not a tool but a comprehensive list of Linux bash commands, cheatsheets and resources

⭐ Stars: 3061

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/trinib/Linux-Bash-Commands

fleetdm/fleet

ℹ️ Description: Open-source platform for IT, security, and infrastructure teams. (Linux, macOS, Windows, Chromebooks, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, data center, containers, IoT)

⭐ Stars: 1760

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet

golang/go

ℹ️ Description: The Go programming language

⭐ Stars: 116603

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44840

datreeio/CRDs-catalog

ℹ️ Description: Popular Kubernetes CRDs (CustomResourceDefinition) in JSON schema format.

⭐ Stars: 355

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/datreeio/CRDs-catalog

haotian-liu/LLaVA

ℹ️ Description: Visual Instruction Tuning: LLaVA (Large Language-and-Vision Assistant) built towards GPT-4V level capabilities.

⭐ Stars: 11972

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/haotian-liu/LLaVA

github/gh-actions-importer

ℹ️ Description: GitHub Actions Importer helps you plan and automate the migration of Azure DevOps, Bamboo, Bitbucket, CircleCI, GitLab, Jenkins, and Travis CI pipelines to GitHub Actions.

⭐ Stars: 904

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/github/gh-actions-importer

pion/example-webrtc-applications

ℹ️ Description: Examples of WebRTC applications that are large, or use 3rd party libraries

⭐ Stars: 796

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/pion/example-webrtc-applications

oceanprotocol/ocean.py

ℹ️ Description: Ocean Protocol's Python library to privately & securely publish, exchange, and consume data.

⭐ Stars: 162

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/oceanprotocol/ocean.py

dockcross/dockcross

ℹ️ Description: Cross compiling toolchains in Docker images

⭐ Stars: 3002

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/dockcross/dockcross

comet-ml/kangas

ℹ️ Description: Kangas is a tool for exploring, analyzing, and visualizing large-scale multimedia data.

It provides a straightforward Python API for logging large tables of data, along with an intuitive visual interface for performing complex queries against your dataset.

⭐ Stars: 1000

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/comet-ml/kangas

wundergraph/wundergraph

ℹ️ Description: WunderGraph is a Backend for Frontend Framework to optimize frontend, fullstack and backend developer workflows through API Composition.

⭐ Stars: 2064

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/wundergraph/wundergraph

TimDettmers/bitsandbytes

ℹ️ Description: 8-bit CUDA functions for PyTorch

⭐ Stars: 4560

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/TimDettmers/bitsandbytes

surrealdb/surrealdb

ℹ️ Description: A scalable, distributed, collaborative, document-graph database, for the realtime web

⭐ Stars: 23866

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb

httpcats/http.cat

ℹ️ Description: The cat status website

⭐ Stars: 2539

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/httpcats/http.cat

tektoncd/pipeline

ℹ️ Description: The Tekton Pipelines project provides k8s-style resources for declaring CI/CD-style pipelines.

Tekton Pipelines are Cloud Native, run on Kubernetes, have Kubernetes clusters as a first class type and use containers as their building blocks

⭐ Stars: 8132

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/tektoncd/pipeline

89luca89/distrobox

ℹ️ Description: Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with.

⭐ Stars: 8091

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

TodePond/DreamBerd---e-acc

ℹ️ Description: DreamBerd - e/acc is a perfect programming language. These are its features!

⭐ Stars: 8821

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/TodePond/DreamBerd

berops/claudie

ℹ️ Description: Platform for managing multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud Kubernetes clusters with support for nodepools across different cloud-providers and on-premise data centers

⭐ Stars: 363

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/berops/claudie

loft-sh/devpod

ℹ️ Description: Codespaces but open-source, client-only and unopinionated: Works with any IDE and lets you use any cloud, kubernetes or just localhost docker.

⭐ Stars: 5476

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/loft-sh/devpod

micropython/micropython

ℹ️ Description: MicroPython - a lean and efficient Python implementation for microcontrollers and constrained systems

⭐ Stars: 17670

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/micropython/micropython

DovAmir/awesome-design-patterns

ℹ️ Description: A curated list of software and architecture related design patterns.

⭐ Stars: 34077

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/DovAmir/awesome-design-patterns

OffcierCia/On-Chain-Investigations-Tools-List

ℹ️ Description: Here we discuss how one can investigate crypto hacks and security incidents, and collect all the possible tools and manuals!

⭐ Stars: 968

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/OffcierCia/On-Chain-Investigations-Tools-List

tdewolff/canvas

ℹ️ Description: Cairo in Go: vector to raster, SVG, PDF, EPS, WASM, OpenGL, Gio, etc.

⭐ Stars: 1372

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/tdewolff/canvas

FlowiseAI/Flowise

ℹ️ Description: Drag & drop UI to build your customized LLM flow

⭐ Stars: 18973

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise

akto-api-security/akto

ℹ️ Description: Proactive, Open source API security → API discovery, Testing in CI/CD, Test Library with 150+ Tests, Add custom tests, Sensitive data exposure

⭐ Stars: 629

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/akto-api-security/akto

jeremydaly/dynamodb-toolbox

ℹ️ Description: A simple set of tools for working with Amazon DynamoDB and the DocumentClient

⭐ Stars: 1674

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/jeremydaly/dynamodb-toolbox

matanolabs/matano

ℹ️ Description: Open source security data lake for threat hunting, detection & response, and cybersecurity analytics at petabyte scale on AWS

⭐ Stars: 1267

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/matanolabs/matano

vectara/vectara-answer

ℹ️ Description: Vectara Answer is an open-source React project that enables you to quickly configure GenAI user interfaces, powered by the Vectara Platform's semantic search and summarization APIs.

⭐ Stars: 188

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/vectara/vectara-answer

bridgecrewio/checkov

ℹ️ Description: Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images, and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.

⭐ Stars: 6205

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/bridgecrewio/checkov

pawelgaczynski/gain

ℹ️ Description: Gain is a high-performance io_uring networking framework written entirely in Go.

⭐ Stars: 457

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/pawelgaczynski/gain

aws-powertools/powertools-lambda-typescript

ℹ️ Description: Powertools is a developer toolkit to implement Serverless best practices and increase developer velocity.

⭐ Stars: 1358

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-powertools-typescript

carlgira/oci-generative-ai

ℹ️ Description: Terraform script to install a stable-diffusion, dreambooth and bloom model in a GPU instance in Oracle Cloud

⭐ Stars: 28

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/carlgira/oci-generative-ai

superfly/litefs

ℹ️ Description: FUSE-based file system for replicating SQLite databases across a cluster of machines

⭐ Stars: 3330

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/superfly/litefs

CASIA-IVA-Lab/FastSAM

ℹ️ Description: The Fast Segment Anything Model(FastSAM) is a CNN Segment Anything Model trained using only 2% of the SA-1B dataset published by SAM authors.

FastSAM achieves comparable performance with the SAM method at 50× higher run-time speed.

⭐ Stars: 6303

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/CASIA-IVA-Lab/FastSAM

99designs/aws-vault

ℹ️ Description: A vault for securely storing and accessing AWS credentials in development environments

⭐ Stars: 7926

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/99designs/aws-vault

paypal/junodb

ℹ️ Description: JunoDB is PayPal's home-grown secure, consistent and highly available key-value store providing low, single digit millisecond, latency at any scale.

⭐ Stars: 2271

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/paypal/junodb

terramate-io/terramate

ℹ️ Description: Terramate CLI is an open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) orchestration tool for Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Cloud Formation, CDK, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), and others.

⭐ Stars: 2743

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/terramate-io/terramate

docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver

ℹ️ Description: Production-ready fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) running inside a container.

⭐ Stars: 12470

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver

bitnami/charts

ℹ️ Description: Bitnami Helm Charts

⭐ Stars: 7963

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/bitnami/charts/issues/10539

google-research/perch

ℹ️ Description: A bioacoustics research project by Google Research

⭐ Stars: 99

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/google-research/chirp

projectdiscovery/katana

ℹ️ Description: A next-generation crawling and spidering framework.

⭐ Stars: 7830

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana

truera/trulens

ℹ️ Description: Evaluation and Tracking for LLM Experiments

⭐ Stars: 931

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/truera/trulens

ksoclabs/kbom

ℹ️ Description: The Kubernetes Bill of Materials (KBOM) standard provides insight into container orchestration tools widely used across the industry. The KBOM project provides an initial specification in JSON and has been constructed for extensibilty across various cloud service providers (CSPs) as well as DIY Kubernetes.

⭐ Stars: 217

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/ksoclabs/kbom

fluxninja/aperture

ℹ️ Description: Rate limiting, caching, and request prioritization for modern workloads

⭐ Stars: 491

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/fluxninja/aperture

Mailu/Mailu

ℹ️ Description: Mailu is a simple yet full-featured mail server as a set of Docker images. It is free software (both as in free beer and as in free speech), open to suggestions and external contributions.

The project aims at providing people with an easily setup, easily maintained and full-featured mail server while not shipping proprietary software nor unrelated features often found in popular groupware.

⭐ Stars: 5094

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/Mailu/Mailu/

crossplane/crossplane

ℹ️ Description: Crossplane is a framework for building cloud native control planes without needing to write code.

It has a highly extensible backend that enables you to build a control plane that can orchestrate applications and infrastructure no matter where they run, and a highly configurable frontend that puts you in control of the schema of the declarative API it offers.

⭐ Stars: 8018

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane