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Business projects on GitHub

Business management suites spanning ERP, CRM, and office workflows.

As of , the most-starred Business projects on GitHub are chinese-independent-developer (61.8K stars), odoo (55.1K stars) and awesome-oss-alternatives (19.8K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 23 Business repositories with 270.4K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was everything, with +394 stars in a day.

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270.4KStars in total
+700Stars in a day

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23 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · 1c7/chinese-independent-developer

    chinese-independent-developer

    A massive curated list of indie projects made by Chinese independent developers, aggregating apps, SaaS tools, and websites that others are building on the side.

    61.8K
  2. #2 · odoo/odoo

    odoo

    Odoo is a suite of web-based open source business apps covering CRM, website builder, eCommerce, warehouse management, project management, billing and accounting, point of sale, HR, marketing, and manufacturing.

    55.1K
  3. #3 · RunaCapital/awesome-oss-alternatives

    awesome-oss-alternatives

    A curated list of open-source startups that can replace well-known closed-source SaaS products — from Supabase and Metabase to Chatwoot and Penpot, each mapped to the SaaS product it competes with.

    19.8K
  1. 4

    opc-methodology

    16.9Keasychen/opc-methodology · PHP

    This is the second edition of '一人企业方法论' (One-Person Enterprise Methodology), a Chinese ebook on building and scaling a one-person business, written for both independent developers and non-technical people running side gigs like self-media, e-commerce, or digital products.

  2. 5

    Startup-CTO-Handbook

    14.2KZachGoldberg/Startup-CTO-Handbook

    This repository holds the latest content of the Startup CTO's Handbook, a book covering leadership, management, and technical topics for people leading software engineering teams at startups.

  3. 6

    automatisch

    14Kautomatisch/automatisch · JavaScript

    Automatisch is an open source alternative to Zapier: a business automation tool that lets you connect services like Twitter and Slack to automate your workflows without coding.

  4. 7

    Marketing-for-Engineers

    13.2Kgoabstract/Marketing-for-Engineers

    A curated, hand-picked collection of marketing articles, guides, videos, podcasts and tools aimed at helping engineers and indie makers learn how to market their products.

  5. 8

    onedrive

    12.9Kabraunegg/onedrive · Python

    A free, open-source Microsoft OneDrive client for Linux that syncs files with OneDrive Personal, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft 365 and SharePoint document libraries.

  6. 9

    lean-side-bussiness

    12.2Keasychen/lean-side-bussiness

    It's a free online book by Easy Chen, 'Lean Side Business' (精益副业), on how programmers can elegantly build a side business. It extends his earlier 'How Programmers Make Pocket Money' and adapts the lean startup process specifically for side projects.

  7. 10

    mautic

    10.8Kmautic/mautic · PHP

    Mautic is the world's largest open source marketing automation platform — a PHP web app businesses self-host to run integrated, multi-channel marketing campaigns.

  8. 11

    dbskill

    10.7Kdontbesilent2025/dbskill · Python

    dbskill is a Chinese-language AI Skills toolbox for entrepreneurs and content creators. It was distilled from 16,152 public tweets into 4,176 structured knowledge atoms, packaged into 32 ready-to-call Skills for business diagnosis, content creation and decision tracking.

  9. 12

    akaunting

    10.2Kakaunting/akaunting · PHP

    Akaunting is an online accounting program aimed at small businesses and freelancers, built with Laravel, VueJS, Tailwind and a RESTful API.

  10. 13

    FDE-the-Guidance-Book-of-Forward-Deployed-Engineer

    5.1Kxdash/FDE-the-Guidance-Book-of-Forward-Deployed-Engineer

    A free, full-text online book about the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) role in the AI era, written in Chinese by Fan Bing (XDash), author of 'Growth Hacker'. It is readable on the companion site and chapter by chapter on GitHub.

  11. 14

    legal-templates

    3.1KGeneral-Legal/legal-templates · Python

    A free collection of attorney-drafted legal templates for startups and tech companies, covering contracts like NDAs, MSAs, privacy policies, and offer letters.

  12. 15

    headcount

    2.1Kcbrock84/headcount · Markdown

    'headcount' is an agent organization built for Claude Code (and ChatGPT) that models a company: a chief executive over 16 departments covering functions like engineering, security, IT, product and finance, with 172 skills in total, each independently installable.

  13. 16

    Smartstore

    1.7Ksmartstore/Smartstore · C#

    Smartstore is a modular, open-source all-in-one eCommerce platform built on ASP.NET Core 10, offering a full storefront plus backend for managing a multi-language, multi-store, multi-currency online shop.

  14. 17

    everything

    1.7KHeyPuter/everything · JavaScript

    The Everything Project is a monorepo of open-source, MIT-licensed applications that aim to recreate the world's proprietary software, from Office and Slack to Photoshop and AutoCAD.

  15. 18

    motion-video-kit

    1.1Kechris6/motion-video-kit · Python

    A Claude Code skill kit (also usable as plain context for any LLM) that packages the process for making premium, launch-style AI business videos — a critic loop, motion grammar, quality checks, audio rules, a business playbook and Three.js patterns, drawn from studying 28 professional SaaS launch films.

  16. 19

    revenue-centric-design

    930heliocosta-dev/revenue-centric-design · Python

    A packaged Agent Skill containing 134 distilled principles on SaaS conversion, retention, and monetization, curated from product designer Richard's (@richardrx) writing, for use by Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, Gemini, or any skills.sh-compatible agent.

  17. 20

    founder-skill

    868Jakeschincariol/founder-skill · Python

    Founder Skill is a set of eleven free Claude skills that let you stress-test a business idea before spending money on it: a board of directors modeled on Hormozi, Thiel and Jobs frameworks, a marketing director, a CFO, and a consumer panel of 100 simulated buyer agents.

  18. 21

    roast-room

    679nateherkai/roast-room · JavaScript

    Seven AI advisors modeled on real business figures (Bezos, Paul Graham, Hormozi, Gary Vee, Dan Martell, Gino Wickman, Buffett) debate a business decision you bring, running inside Claude Code, with a local web app showing them 'around a table' and ending in a scored verdict plus a one-click PDF.

  19. 22

    ai-employees

    630markfulton/ai-employees · JavaScript

    Eight open source AI Employees for small business: each is a self-contained kit that runs one business role — 60 scheduled routines in total — on your own machine, driven by the AI coding agent you already use, like Claude Code.

  20. 23

    claude-ops

    546Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops · Shell

    A plugin that turns Claude Code into a business operating system: one /ops:go command surfaces infrastructure health, CI/CD status, a unified inbox, open PRs, sprint state and revenue (Stripe + RevenueCat + AWS), with autonomous C-suite agents that act on your behalf.

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