What should you compare in open-source developer tools?

What you still operate. Where data is stored. License for team use

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Deployment, API clients, and source hosting. Match the tool to the job: deploying apps, calling APIs, or hosting source.

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What you still operate
Where data is stored
License for team use

Coolify

Deploy apps and databases on your own servers.

Stars: 62,453
Updated: 4d ago
License: Apache-2.0
Hosting: Self-hosted
Category: Developer Tools

Often instead of Heroku

Website

Hoppscotch

An API client that runs in the browser.

Stars: 80,558
Updated: 4d ago
License: MIT
Hosting: Both
Category: API tools

Often instead of Postman

Website

Gitea

Painless self-hosted Git hosting, code review, package registry, and CI.

Stars: 58,247
Updated: 3d ago
License: MIT
Hosting: Self-hosted
Category: Developer Tools

Often instead of Github

Website

Bruno

An API client that stores collections as files.

Stars: 47,298
Updated: 4d ago
License: MIT
Hosting: Self-hosted
Category: API tools

Often instead of Postman

Website

Codebase Memory MCP

Codebase Memory MCP indexes repositories into a searchable code knowledge graph.

Stars: 45,768
Updated: 2d ago
License: MIT
Hosting: Both
Category: Developer Tools

Website

Dokku

A small self-hosted platform for deploying applications with buildpacks and plugins.

Stars: 32,165
Updated: 3d ago
License: MIT
Hosting: Self-hosted
Category: Developer Tools

Website

Repomix

Repomix packs a repository into a single file for analysis by AI tools.

Stars: 28,675
Updated: 1d ago
License: MIT
Hosting: Self-hosted
Category: Developer Tools

Website

GitDiagram

GitDiagram generates interactive architecture diagrams from GitHub repositories.

Stars: 17,802
Updated: 1d ago
License: MIT
Hosting: Self-hosted
Category: Developer Tools

Website

Wakapi

Wakapi is a self-hosted backend for coding activity statistics.

Stars: 4,439
Updated: today
License: MIT
Hosting: Self-hosted
Category: Developer Tools

Website

kubero

A free and self-hosted PaaS alternative to Heroku / Netlify / Coolify / Vercel / Dokku / Portainer running on Kubernetes

Stars: 4,430
Updated: 102d ago
License: GPL-3.0
Hosting: Self-hosted
Category: Developer Tools

Website

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What should you compare?: What you still operate. Where data is stored. License for team use.
Does a sponsor change the order?: No. Sponsor slots are labelled and sit outside the organic list.

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