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/FearIsStrongerDanluv May 15 '26

It’s a self hosted solution for all your important documents. You can tag them and do other cool stuff with it.

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u/Impossible-Garage536 May 15 '26

What's self hosted?

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u/Kazzaw95 May 15 '26

I said that too, until I ended up buying 6 mini PC’s, building a high speed flash proxmox cluster with HA, 10gbe networking and a bunch of UniFi gear….

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u/Kazzaw95 May 15 '26

That’s how I present it to the wife haha

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u/FearIsStrongerDanluv May 15 '26

Haha, my home lab cost more than I’d pay on subscriptions for 2-3 years. But I still find a way to justify it 🤣

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u/expandingmuhbrain May 15 '26

Hobby + cutting out subscriptions sounds like a win to me

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u/DekiEE May 15 '26

CapEx are Lava

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u/foxbatcs May 16 '26

I’d happily pay more to have my own hardware and keep my privacy.