This is a curated list of innovative, open web technologies.
Table of Contents:
- Commune – Community platform, specifically designed for public-by-default communities.
- positive-intentions: chat – Decentralized chat app for messaging, file sharing, and virtual reality experiences.
- Revolt – User-first chat platform inspired by Discord.
- Hometown – A supported fork of Mastodon that provides local posting and a wider range of content types.
- Kitsune – (Fast) ActivityPub-federated microblogging.
- Mastodon – A decentralized microblogging platform built on ActivityPub.
- Memos – Privacy-first, lightweight note-taking service with multi-tenancy and sharing capabilities.
- Answer – A Q&A platform software for teams at any scales.
- Bonfire – Social networking toolkit for crafting digital spaces that empower communities.
- Flarum – Modern and fast community platform and framework.
- kbin – A federated platform for content aggregation and microblogging.
- Mbin – A community-focused fork of kbin including many improvements.
- Lemmy – Link aggregator and forum for the fediverse, like Reddit.
- Maddy – Composable all-in-one mail server.
- Stalwart – Secure & modern all-in-one mail server (IMAP, JMAP, POP3, SMTP).
- anuraOS – A web "OS" and development environment with full Linux emulation.
- daedalOS – Browser-based desktop environment with many features.
- FriendOS – A responsive desktop environment that runs in the browser, allowing to work and play, collaboratively, across devices.
- kodbox – Webtop providing a file manager, code editor, and collaboration features.
- OS.js – JavaScript Web Desktop Platform.
- Pluto – Minimal and functional Webtop.
- Puter – Full-featured Internet OS.
- ChatBSV – AI chat and microservices in exchange for tiny Bitcoin microtransactions.
- Chatlabs – All-in-one LLM chat platform based on Chatbot UI v2.
- HackerGPT – Ethical hacking AI for web application hacking (based on Chatbot UI v2).
- Hugging Face Chat UI – Open source codebase powering the HuggingChat app.
- LibreChat – Enhanced ChatGPT clone supporting many AI backends.
- Open WebUI – User-friendly WebUI for LLMs (formerly Ollama WebUI).
- Samurai – AI chat for every model (based on Chatbot UI v2).
- OpenDevin – Platform for autonomous AI software engineers.
- Perplexica – An open source Perplexity AI clone utilizing SearXNG for search (supports Ollama).
- Forgejo – Self-hostable lightweight software forge (soft fork of Gitea by independent Codeberg e.V.).
- Gitea – Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service.
- Penpot – Design tool that bridges the gap between designers and developers.
- Authelia – Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps.
- Rauthy – OpenID Connect Single Sign-On Identity & Access Management.
- Weird – A decentralized web persona builder and identity provider.
- Garage – An open-source distributed object storage service tailored for self-hosting.
- boringproxy – Simple tunneling reverse proxy with a fast web UI and auto HTTPS. Designed for self-hosters.
- Seabreeze – A really simple container orchestration tool with superpowers, optimized for the management of web applications.
- Matrix – An open protocol for decentralised, secure communications.
- Polyproto – Advanced, secure and scalable protocol for federated chat services.
- XMPP – An open protocol for real-time messaging and presence.
- Nostr – A truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter. Controversial.
- web-os-spec – Specification for the protocol handler
web+os.
- ForgeFed – Federation protocol for software forges and code collaboration tools.
- GUN – An open source cybersecurity protocol and ecosystem of tools for syncing decentralized graph data.
- OAuth 2.0 – An open standard for access delegation, commonly used for token-based authentication.
- IndieAuth – An identity layer on top of OAuth 2.0, primarily used to obtain an OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token for use by Micropub clients.
- Earthstar – Specification and JavaScript library for a small and resilient distributed storage protocol.
- IPFS – A set of composable, peer-to-peer protocols for addressing, routing, and transferring content-addressed data in a decentralized file system.
- Iroh – A protocol for syncing bytes of any size across any number of devices, and a toolkit for building distributed apps.
- Noosphere – A protocol for thought, defining a worldwide knowledge graph on top of IPFS.
- Solid – A specification that lets people store their data securely in decentralized data stores.
- Willow – Lightweight protocol for peer-to-peer data stores, featuring fine-grained permissions, a keen approach to privacy, and destructive edits.
- Web Monetization API – Allows websites to automatically and passively receive payments from Web Monetization-enabled visitors.
- DomainConnect – Specification for an open DNS delegation protocol.
- NameDrop – Specification for an open, easy-to-implement DNS delegation protocol.