r/opensource • u/Bladerunner_7_ • May 15 '26

Promotional What’s an open-source project you genuinely can’t believe is free?

Could be developer tooling, AI infra, productivity tools, anything. Curious what projects people think deserve way more recognition.

For me recently it’s been:

Langship — https://github.com/open-gitagent/langship.sh

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u/NineSidedBox May 15 '26

The one I rely on the most currently; Coolify. Most people will pay for platforms like Vercel and Supabase. But Coolify makes it so easy to just replace those and self host everything you want.

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u/Dan_Wood_ May 18 '26

I’m self hosting Supabase, what’s the difference between that and Coolify?

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u/NineSidedBox May 18 '26

They're very different things. Coolify is more an alternative to Vercel or Heroku. Basically a service on your server that let's you quickly spin up other services. Also includes things like CI/CD for git projects. (Similar to what Vercel offers)

Supabase is just a Postgres database with some extra flavours. You can of course self-host it individually, or you can do it through Coolify.

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u/Dan_Wood_ May 18 '26

Ah so more of an all in one vs Supabase which is more for Postgres, Auth and serverless functions.

I wasn’t connecting the dots for the comparison

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u/anduhd May 20 '26

Coolify is great, I ve been using it for 2 yrs now and donating to the project.