Topics / #community

Community projects on GitHub

Platforms and tools for running online communities and discussion forums.

As of , the most-starred Community projects on GitHub are public-apis (489.6K stars), freeCodeCamp (457.2K stars) and 996.ICU (277.1K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 80 Community repositories with 2.8M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was public-apis, with +373 stars in a day.

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+373

public-apis

public-apis/public-apis · ★ 489.6K

A collective list of free APIs: a huge, manually curated catalog of public APIs for developers, maintained by the community for years. You do not call it — you browse the catalog and pick third-party APIs to use in your own product.

+103

freeCodeCamp

freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp · ★ 457.2K

freeCodeCamp.org's open-source codebase and curriculum: a friendly, donor-supported community where you learn math, programming, and computer science for free through thousands of interactive coding challenges. The full-stack web development and machine learning curriculum is completely free and self-paced, and the community says it has helped over 100,000 people get their first developer job.

+72

awesome-agent-skills

VoltAgent/awesome-agent-skills · ★ 35.9K

This is a curated collection of 1000+ Agent Skills contributed by official dev teams (Anthropic, VoltAgent, SerpApi, Crawlbase, TestMu AI, and many more) and the community, for extending AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Cursor.

+57

solana-classic

solana-classic/solana-classic · ★ 443

Solana Classic is an open-source SVM blockchain built with Solana's Agave engine, run as an independent network whose roadmap is dedicated to art, NFTs and memes instead of treating them as a side category. It currently runs an experimental devnet with a single validator.

The all-time top

80 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · public-apis/public-apis

    public-apis

    A collective list of free APIs: a huge, manually curated catalog of public APIs for developers, maintained by the community for years. You do not call it — you browse the catalog and pick third-party APIs to use in your own product.

    489.6K
  2. #2 · freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp

    freeCodeCamp

    freeCodeCamp.org's open-source codebase and curriculum: a friendly, donor-supported community where you learn math, programming, and computer science for free through thousands of interactive coding challenges. The full-stack web development and machine learning curriculum is completely free and self-paced, and the community says it has helped over 100,000 people get their first developer job.

    457.2K
  3. #3 · 996icu/996.ICU

    996.ICU

    A protest initiative by Chinese IT practitioners against the '996' overtime culture, started in March 2019 — it has since drawn about 277k GitHub stars.

    277.1K
  1. 4

    papers-we-love

    110.6Kpapers-we-love/papers-we-love · Shell

    Papers We Love is a curated directory of notable computer science papers gathered from across the web, built around a community that reads and discusses them.

  2. 5

    HowToCook

    102.8KAnduin2017/HowToCook

    A community-maintained cookbook written specifically for programmers, rewriting common Chinese home recipes with precise, step-by-step instructions instead of the vague wording typical of food blogs.

  3. 6

    tldr

    64Ktldr-pages/tldr · Markdown

    tldr-pages is a community-maintained collection of simplified help pages for command-line tools, meant as a more approachable complement to traditional man pages.

  4. 7

    chinese-independent-developer

    61.8K1c7/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.

  5. 8

    first-contributions

    56.4Kfirstcontributions/first-contributions

    A beginner-friendly tutorial repository that walks newcomers through making their very first open source contribution, step by step.

  6. 9

    discourse

    48Kdiscourse/discourse · Ruby

    Discourse is a 100% open-source community discussion platform that lets you run forums with topics, built-in real-time chat, and a plugin/theme ecosystem.

  7. 10

    remote-jobs

    40.9Kremoteintech/remote-jobs · JavaScript

    This is the source code behind remoteintech.company, a community-maintained directory of remote-friendly tech companies for job seekers.

  8. 11

    awesome-copilot

    40.1Kgithub/awesome-copilot · JavaScript

    This is a community-curated collection of custom agents, instructions, skills, hooks, workflows, and plugins that extend and customize GitHub Copilot.

  9. 12

    freecodecamp.cn

    37.8KFreeCodeCampChina/freecodecamp.cn · CSS

    This is the Chinese localization of freeCodeCamp - the full source code and curriculum that powers freeCodeCamp.cn, a free browser-based platform for learning full-stack JavaScript development by building real projects.

  10. 13

    Open-Assistant

    37.4KLAION-AI/Open-Assistant · Python

    OpenAssistant was a community project to build a free, open chat-based assistant like ChatGPT, trained on crowdsourced instruction data and RLHF. The project has since wrapped up: the final 'oasst2' dataset is published on Hugging Face and the repo stands as a record of the effort.

  11. 14

    955.WLB

    36.4Kformulahendry/955.WLB

    A community-maintained whitelist of companies offering around 955 working hours - a stand against China's notorious 996 culture, echoing the 996.ICU project to help people escape overtime.

  12. 15

    awesome-agent-skills

    35.9KVoltAgent/awesome-agent-skills

    This is a curated collection of 1000+ Agent Skills contributed by official dev teams (Anthropic, VoltAgent, SerpApi, Crawlbase, TestMu AI, and many more) and the community, for extending AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Cursor.

  13. 16

    manifesto

    35.6Kopentofu/manifesto · HTML

    This is the OpenTF Manifesto, a public document and petition opposing HashiCorp's move of Terraform's license away from open source, calling for it to be switched back to a truly open source license.

  14. 17

    gold-miner

    34.4Kxitu/gold-miner

    Gold Miner (掘金翻译计划) is a Chinese community that translates high-quality English tech articles into Chinese, covering blockchain, AI, Android, iOS, frontend, backend, design, and product topics.

  15. 18

    run

    32.1KThe-Run-Philosophy-Organization/run

    This is the 'Run Philosophy' (润学) repository, a crowdsourced Chinese-language knowledge base that compiles the manifesto, theory, and real-life case studies about emigrating from China, aiming to answer why people leave, where they go, and how they do it.

  16. 19

    90DaysOfDevOps

    29.8KMichaelCade/90DaysOfDevOps · Shell

    A structured learning curriculum for DevOps that grew out of a personal 90-day public learning challenge, now covering principles, processes, tooling, and real-world use cases like Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ansible.

  17. 20

    programmer-job-blacklist

    28.4Kshengxinjing/programmer-job-blacklist · Shell

    A crowd-sourced blacklist of Chinese employers, startups, and tech cofounders accused of withholding wages, abusive labor practices, or betraying programmers, documented through links to Zhihu, Weibo, and news coverage.

  18. 21

    p5.js

    24.1Kprocessing/p5.js · JavaScript

    p5.js is a free, open-source JavaScript library for creative coding, letting artists, designers, educators, and beginners draw graphics, sound, and interactive work directly on a web page.

  19. 22

    TelegramGroup

    23.5KAZeC4/TelegramGroup

    A curated Chinese-language directory listing over 10,000 Telegram groups and channels, plus a large index of useful Telegram bots, organized by category (search bots, tutorials, communities, utility bots, references).

  20. 23

    forem

    22.8Kforem/forem · Ruby

    Forem is open-source software for building communities — it is the platform that powers dev.to. You run it to create your own space where members publish articles, join discussions, and build profiles.

  21. 24

    Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-Books

    22.6Kcat-milk/Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-Books

    A community-curated GitHub collection of pictures showing anime girls holding programming books, sorted into folders by the book's subject. It has collected over 22,000 stars since 2017.

  22. 25

    obsidian-releases

    22.3Kobsidianmd/obsidian-releases

    This is the official Obsidian releases repo: it hosts public releases of the app plus the community plugins and themes directories that power the in-app plugin and theme browser.

  23. 26

    smartknob

    22.2Kscottbez1/smartknob · C++

    SmartKnob is an open-source haptic input device that pairs a brushless gimbal motor with a magnetic encoder to create closed-loop torque feedback, letting you program virtual detents and endstops in software instead of mechanically.

  24. 27

    core

    22Kdotnet/core · PowerShell

    The official home of .NET release notes and news: a table of every version under active support or development, with release dates, support phases, latest patch versions, and links to the full notes.

  25. 28

    Dism-Multi-language

    20.6KChuyu-Team/Dism-Multi-language · HTML

    The localization hub for Dism++, a Windows system cleanup and optimization tool: it hosts the UI translation files, the cleanup rules file, a crash-stats backend and the official website source.

  26. 29

    daily

    20.1Kdailydotdev/daily · JavaScript

    A free, open-source personalized news feed for developers used by millions: it aggregates articles, tutorials, and release notes from 2,000+ sources across the web and tunes your feed to the tags you follow.

  27. 30

    catppuccin

    19.8Kcatppuccin/catppuccin · TypeScript

    Catppuccin is a community-driven pastel theme aiming for the middle ground between low- and high-contrast themes: 4 soothing warm flavors with 26 eye-candy colors each, made for coding, designing and more.

  28. 31

    path-to-senior-engineer-handbook

    18.4Kjordan-cutler/path-to-senior-engineer-handbook

    A curated handbook of external resources (newsletters, books, courses, papers, videos, podcasts, communities, and job/interview platforms) aimed at helping software engineers grow into Senior Engineer and beyond.

  29. 32

    Flipper

    17.7KUberGuidoZ/Flipper · C

    A personal playground and dump of files for the Flipper Zero: stuff the author made, modified, researched or found, free for anyone to grab and try on their device.

  30. 33

    reddit

    17Kreddit-archive/reddit · Python

    This is the historical source code of reddit.com - the website's original Python and JavaScript codebase, preserved after the site stopped publishing its code.

  31. 34

    ruby-style-guide

    16.5Krubocop/ruby-style-guide

    A community-driven Ruby coding style guide: it recommends best practices so real-world Ruby programmers can write code that other people can maintain. It deliberately favors established real-world usage over unproven ideals.

  32. 35

    flarum

    16.4Kflarum/flarum · PHP

    Flarum is a discussion/forum platform you run on your own website to build an online community.

  33. 36

    HowToBeAProgrammer

    16.3Kbraydie/HowToBeAProgrammer

    A free, community-maintained essay by Robert L. Read on how to be a good programmer — the personal, team, and judgment skills around writing code, which the author calls the easy part.

  34. 37

    YYeTsBot

    16.3Ktgbot-collection/YYeTsBot · Python

    YYeTsBot is a Telegram bot and website for Chinese-subtitled movies and TV shows: it indexes resources from YYeTs (人人影视) and lets you search a title and get its resource links. The GitHub description says it covers all YYeTs resources plus many cloud-drive links shared by users.

  35. 38

    swift-evolution

    15.9Kswiftlang/swift-evolution · Markdown

    This is the Swift Evolution repository: it tracks how the Swift programming language, its standard library, and its package manager evolve, one proposal at a time.

  36. 39

    opensource.guide

    15.7Kgithub/opensource.guide · HTML

    A collection of free guides that teach individuals, communities, and companies how to run and contribute to open-source projects, published as a website and curated by GitHub.

  37. 40

    answer

    15.7Kapache/answer · Go

    Apache Answer is an open-source Q&A platform you can shape into a community forum, a help center, or a knowledge base for a team of any size.

  38. 41

    vagas

    15.4Kfrontendbr/vagas

    A GitHub repository where companies and recruiters post front-end developer job openings in Brazil by opening GitHub issues, run by the FrontendBR community.

  39. 42

    NodeBB

    15.2KNodeBB/NodeBB · JavaScript

    NodeBB is forum/bulletin-board software built on Node.js, with real-time discussions, mobile-responsive design, and RESTful read/write APIs on top of classic forum concepts like categories and user accounts.

  40. 43

    bounty-program

    15.2Kzama-ai/bounty-program

    Zama's bounty program: it pays developers to solve Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) challenges built on Zama's open source libraries, as an experiment to advance the whole FHE field.

  41. 44

    dotnet

    15.1Kmicrosoft/dotnet · HTML

    It's the official home of .NET on GitHub - a starting-point repo that gathers links to .NET open-source projects, docs and release notes from Microsoft and the community.

  42. 45

    lemmy

    14.6KLemmyNet/lemmy · Rust

    Lemmy is a free, open-source link aggregator and forum for the fediverse — think Reddit or Hacker News, but anyone can run a server and all servers connect into one network.

  43. 46

    diaspora

    13.7Kdiaspora/diaspora · Ruby

    diaspora* is a privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network: instead of one company-owned platform, it is a network of many independent servers (pods) run by different people.

  44. 47

    galaxy

    13.5Kuiverse-io/galaxy · HTML

    Galaxy is an open-source archive of over 3000 unique UI elements (buttons, cards, loaders, checkboxes, etc.) built with CSS or Tailwind, automatically mirrored from the community-driven Uiverse.io platform.

  45. 48

    nuclei-templates

    13.1Kprojectdiscovery/nuclei-templates · JavaScript

    This is a community-curated collection of over 11,000 detection templates for the Nuclei vulnerability scanner, covering CVEs, misconfigurations, exposed panels, and other security issues.

  46. 49

    community

    13Kkubernetes/community · Jupyter Notebook

    The official Kubernetes community documentation — the starting point for joining and contributing to the Kubernetes project, whether by improving docs, improving code, or giving talks.

  47. 50

    csharplang

    12.7Kdotnet/csharplang · C#

    The official repo where the C# language itself is designed: new language features are proposed, debated, adopted and specified here by the C# Language Design Team (LDT), in coordination with Roslyn, the project that implements C#.

  48. 51

    chainlit

    12.5KChainlit/chainlit · Python

    Chainlit is an open-source Python framework for building production-ready conversational AI applications in minutes, not weeks.

  49. 52

    tensorflow-zh

    12.3Kjikexueyuanwiki/tensorflow-zh · TeX

    A Chinese translation of Google's official TensorFlow documentation, started by the Geek Academy (jikexueyuan) Wiki team on the same day Google open-sourced TensorFlow in November 2015.

  50. 53

    night

    12.3Ktalkgo/night · Go

    Go 夜读 (Go Night Reading) is a Chinese community that runs weekly live-streamed talks about Go programming topics on Bilibili, with ongoing discussion continuing in WeChat, Telegram, and Slack groups.

  51. 54

    awesome-indie

    11.9Kmezod/awesome-indie

    A curated list of resources to help independent developers make money from their own products: communities, newsletters, podcasts, talks, posts, books, tools and courses, compiled by indie maker @mezod of everyday.app.

  52. 55

    github-do-not-ban-us

    11.7K1995parham/github-do-not-ban-us · JavaScript

    An open letter and protest campaign against GitHub restricting Iranian developers' accounts, which also showcases open-source projects made by Iranian developers.

  53. 56

    lists

    11.6Kjnv/lists

    It is a meta-directory that collects links to hundreds of other curated lists found on GitHub and elsewhere, split into a 'Non-technical' section (hobbies, food, books, etc.) and a 'Technical' section (dev resources, APIs, frameworks).

  54. 57

    developer2gwy

    11.4Kmiss-mumu/developer2gwy

    An open-source, community-written guide for programmers in China who want to become civil servants: exam prep best practices plus a candid handbook of work and life inside the system (体制内).

  55. 58

    GameNative

    11.4Kutkarshdalal/GameNative · Kotlin

    GameNative lets you run the PC games you already own on Steam, Epic, GOG and Amazon directly on your Android device, with no streaming required, and syncs cloud saves between your PC and phone.

  56. 59

    BrasilAPI

    11.3KBrasilAPI/BrasilAPI · JavaScript

    BrasilAPI is a free, open-source, community-maintained API that turns Brazilian public data into simple web endpoints — its tagline asks 'Vamos transformar o Brasil em uma API?' ('Shall we turn Brazil into an API?').

  57. 60

    winget-pkgs

    11.2Kmicrosoft/winget-pkgs

    This is the community manifest repository for the Windows Package Manager (winget) — it holds the YAML-style manifest files that define how each app is downloaded and installed, and it is the default source winget queries.

  58. 61

    spectrum

    10.8Kwithspectrum/spectrum · JavaScript

    Spectrum is the open-source codebase for a community platform that combines forum-style threaded discussions with real-time chat, aimed at making it easier to grow and moderate online communities.

  59. 62

    eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

    10.6Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee · Python

    Honestly, the repo itself does not tell: the README and the description are nothing but the letter 'e' repeated. GitHub metadata shows a Python repository created in 2018 that has collected over 10,500 stars.

  60. 63

    sure

    10.6Kwe-promise/sure · Ruby

    Sure is a free, self-hostable personal finance app — a community-maintained fork of Maybe Finance, which its original team open-sourced after spending nearly $1 million building it.

  61. 64

    goQuality-dev-contents

    10.1KIntegerous/goQuality-dev-contents

    A curated, Korean-language collection of high-quality developer content — articles and talks built on real engineers' experience and know-how — assembled since 2018 and now also served at goquality.dev.

  62. 65

    support.996.ICU

    10KMSWorkers/support.996.ICU

    An open letter signed by Microsoft and GitHub employees declaring support for the 996.ICU movement - a protest by Chinese tech workers against illegal 9am-9pm, 6-day-a-week overtime schedules.

  63. 66

    TitanBot

    9Kcodebymitch/TitanBot · JavaScript

    An all-in-one Discord bot covering moderation, economy, tickets, music, leveling, giveaways, reaction roles, welcome messages and birthday tracking — built on discord.js v14 with PostgreSQL for persistence.

  64. 67

    search-plugins

    7.1Kqbittorrent/search-plugins · Python

    A community-maintained collection of Python search plugins that plug into qBittorrent's built-in search tab, letting it query different torrent sites directly.

  65. 68

    vouch

    5.1Kmitchellh/vouch · Nushell

    Vouch is a community trust management system where trusted maintainers explicitly vouch for or denounce contributors, and only vouched people are allowed to interact with certain parts of a project, like opening issues or pull requests.

  66. 69

    privacyguides.org

    4.3Kprivacyguides/privacyguides.org · Markdown

    Privacy Guides is a non-profit, community-run website and knowledge base that explains digital surveillance threats and recommends privacy and security tools to help people protect their data online.

  67. 70

    russia-mobile-internet-whitelist

    3.8Khxehex/russia-mobile-internet-whitelist

    A community-maintained list of domains and IP ranges that stay reachable in Russia even when mobile internet gets throttled or filtered, meant to be fed into VPN or proxy clients so their traffic blends in with what the government allows through.

  68. 71

    try-omarchy

    2.6Komacom/try-omarchy · Swift

    Try Omarchy lets you run the Omarchy Arch Linux desktop as a native, hardware-accelerated macOS app on Apple Silicon, with no manual VM setup required.

  69. 72

    unigit-ecosystem

    1.3Kadtexterry-lgtm/unigit-ecosystem · JavaScript

    This is the public brand and ecosystem hub for UNIGIT, an AI workbench where people describe a goal and the model can pick a path, use tools, work with real files, and return a usable deliverable.

  70. 73

    zulu

    888slop-place/zulu · Swift

    Zulu is a native Zulip client for iOS and macOS that treats topics as first-class citizens, grouping channels into folders and letting threads be promoted or hidden locally.

  71. 74

    e621

    457blendmaidintrigue/e621 · Ruby

    This is an independent, community-maintained self-hosted imageboard platform built on the open-source e621ng codebase, letting you run your own instance with tagging, search, and user accounts.

  72. 75

    solana-classic

    443solana-classic/solana-classic · Rust

    Solana Classic is an open-source SVM blockchain built with Solana's Agave engine, run as an independent network whose roadmap is dedicated to art, NFTs and memes instead of treating them as a side category. It currently runs an experimental devnet with a single validator.

  73. 76

    deepseek-whale-girl

    409TreapGoGo/deepseek-whale-girl · HTML

    A community-maintained, unofficial resource hub for the 'whale girl' — the fan-created mascot character around DeepSeek. It collects reference art, generation prompts and community works in one place.

  74. 77

    dshfind

    309hikariming/dshfind · TypeScript

    dshfind is a community website built around DeepSeek Harness (DSH): it teaches DSH's underlying principles, indexes a live plugin marketplace, and collects best practices and author/project rankings.

  75. 78

    botdirectory.ai

    253elie222/botdirectory.ai · Astro

    A community-maintained directory of ready-to-use agent prompts for Grok Bot, Rakazo, and any other agent — copy a prompt and paste it into your agent to turn it into a scheduled bot for things like email triage, daily briefings, SEO fixes, or churn warnings.

  76. 79

    fm1-custom-fw

    178aroum/fm1-custom-fw · Python

    It is a community resource hub for the M-VAVE FM-1 synthesizer (built on the JieLi AC791N chip): a directory of custom firmwares, MIDI SysEx protocol documentation, tools, and a macOS firmware-updater app.

  77. 80

    kolo-frontend

    132Stellar-Kolo/kolo-frontend · TypeScript

    Kolo is the Next.js frontend for a WhatsApp-first community savings product (inspired by Ajo, Esusu, and other rotating savings circles) that plans to use Stellar accounts and Soroban smart contracts for transparent settlement. This repo holds the public landing page and member/admin dashboard UI.

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