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Remote projects on GitHub
Mix of remote work resources and unrelated tools sharing the word.
As of , the most-starred Remote projects on GitHub are awesome-remote-job (49.6K stars), remote-jobs (40.9K stars) and shadowsocks (33.5K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 13 Remote repositories with 255.1K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was awesome-remote-job, with +65 stars in a day.
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16
+65awesome-remote-job
lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job · ★ 49.6KA curated list of resources for finding and succeeding at remote jobs: job boards, aggregators, articles, books, podcasts, communities, events, and tools, inspired by the 'awesome-python' format.
+51google-ads-meta-ads-mcp
irinabuht12-oss/google-ads-meta-ads-mcp · ★ 5.1KIt is a single hosted remote MCP server that bundles a Google Ads MCP, a Meta Ads MCP (Facebook and Instagram), Google Analytics 4, and Google Search Console, exposing 250+ tools so AI assistants can create campaigns, pull reports, and manage ad accounts by chat instead of dashboards.
+27dsh-pocket
shaobeichen/dsh-pocket · ★ 1.8KDSH Pocket is a plugin that lets you access your computer's DeepSeek Harness (dsh web) interface from your phone by scanning a QR code, with real-time screen mirroring over LAN or the public internet.
+6FreeRDP
FreeRDP/FreeRDP · ★ 13.8KFreeRDP is a free, open-source implementation of Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) — a C library plus ready-to-use client apps for connecting to remote desktops.
The all-time top
13 projects · by stars
- 49.6K
#1 · lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-jobawesome-remote-job
A curated list of resources for finding and succeeding at remote jobs: job boards, aggregators, articles, books, podcasts, communities, events, and tools, inspired by the 'awesome-python' format.
- 40.9K
#2 · remoteintech/remote-jobsremote-jobs
This is the source code behind remoteintech.company, a community-maintained directory of remote-friendly tech companies for job seekers.
- 33.5K
#3 · shadowsocks/shadowsocksshadowsocks
An encrypted SOCKS5 proxy for getting private traffic past censorship — that is what the repo's own tags (proxy, socks5, encryption, censorship) describe. It is written in Python, has been on GitHub since April 2012, and holds about 33.5k stars.
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SwitchHosts
27.3Koldj/SwitchHosts · TypeScriptSwitchHosts is a free, open-source desktop app for managing your hosts file: keep several hosts profiles and switch between them in one click from the main window or system tray.
- 5
select2
25.9Kselect2/select2 · JavaScriptSelect2 is a jQuery-based replacement for standard HTML select boxes. It upgrades plain dropdowns with searching, remote data sets, and pagination of results.
- 6
asciinema
17.9Kasciinema/asciinema · RustIt's a command-line tool for recording and live-streaming terminal sessions. Instead of heavyweight video, it saves lightweight asciicast (.cast) files you can replay in a terminal, embed on a web page, or publish to asciinema.org.
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fabric
15.5Kfabric/fabric · PythonFabric is a high-level Python library for executing shell commands on remote servers over SSH and getting back useful Python objects, built for automation and deployment tasks.
- 8

FreeRDP
13.8KFreeRDP/FreeRDP · CFreeRDP is a free, open-source implementation of Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) — a C library plus ready-to-use client apps for connecting to remote desktops.
- 9

garnet
12.1Kmicrosoft/garnet · C#Garnet is a remote cache-store from Microsoft Research: a key-value server that existing Redis clients can talk to, built for high throughput, low latency, persistence, and cluster sharding.
- 10

TheFatRat
11.5Kscreetsec/TheFatRat · CTheFatRat is an exploiting tool that compiles malware from famous payloads — an easy way to generate backdoors built to slip past most anti-virus software.
- 11

google-ads-meta-ads-mcp
5.1Kirinabuht12-oss/google-ads-meta-ads-mcpIt is a single hosted remote MCP server that bundles a Google Ads MCP, a Meta Ads MCP (Facebook and Instagram), Google Analytics 4, and Google Search Console, exposing 250+ tools so AI assistants can create campaigns, pull reports, and manage ad accounts by chat instead of dashboards.
- 12

dsh-pocket
1.8Kshaobeichen/dsh-pocket · JavaScriptDSH Pocket is a plugin that lets you access your computer's DeepSeek Harness (dsh web) interface from your phone by scanning a QR code, with real-time screen mirroring over LAN or the public internet.
- 13
agentreach
179bojieli/agentreach · GoAgentReach (reach) is a CLI that lets you point your local coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) at any machine you can SSH into. The agent itself keeps running on your laptop, but every shell command and file read/write it makes is transparently redirected to the remote box over SSH, so your API key and the agent binary never touch the server.
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