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Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

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This has been posted a few times already, but I cannot tell you how life changing Paperless NGX is for organizing PDFs. As someone who wrangles all of the insurance and bills for my house, this open source software is so damn good.

https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/

I maintain Bash script to quickly set it up locally on Linux with Podman. Give it a spin if you want to kick the tires.

https://github.com/jdoss/ppngx

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

#52
Cosmopolitan https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan and https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/index.html

Some genius realized that you can actually embed valid win32 programs inside valid posix shell scripts, and found a way to make a C cross-platform solution out of it, meaning that you can write C programs that compile to a single executable that will run on (quoting the site) Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD + NetBSD + BIOS

It all started from this post.

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

#53
Open streetmap

I'm so amazed by the amount of problems that can be solved by using this data.

Need to find out the nearest drinking water tap. They got you covered.

Need to know how you can enter a particular subway station as a blind person? The data should be there. Including traffic lights with audible feedback.

Want to charge your ebike at your destination? Find type of bicycle rack and the availability of power outlets.

Need to mail a letter? The collection time of the nearest post box is there.

Planning a trip? The access fee of an attraction is documented.

Need to find a gate at any airport. ...

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

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post #52

Cosmopolitan https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan and https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/index.html Some genius realized that you can actually embed valid win32 programs inside valid posix shell scripts, and found a way to make a C cross-platform solution out of it, meaning that you can write C programs that compile to a single executable that will run on (quoting the site) Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD + N…

Missing post in previous comment, sorry. https://justine.lol/ape.html

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

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Open streetmap I'm so amazed by the amount of problems that can be solved by using this data. Need to find out the nearest drinking water tap. They got you covered. Need to know how you can enter a particular subway station as a blind person? The data should be there. Including traffic lights with audible feedback. Want to charge your ebike at your destination? Find type of bicycle rack and the availability of power…

I would also mention Street Complete, as the companion app to contribute all that data.

https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

#56

I discovered these 3 amazing projects recently: Cryptpad, essentially google docs/sheets/forms e2e encrypted. It does include collaboration. https://github.com/cryptpad/cryptpad Immich, google photos self hostable, with share options https://github.com/immich-app/immich Nginxproxymanager manages certificates and proxies to self hosted stuff through nginx https://github.com/NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager Great…

I've been using both Immich and Nginx Proxy Manager for a while now, it's the first time that I see Cryptpad, it looks like an awesome tool.

I recently tried the Collabora Online integration in Nextcloud, but was quite disappointed with it, the right-to-left button was greyed out for no apparent reason, and creating shapes and moving then around felt sluggish (clicking the rectangle tool directly added a rectangle in the middle of the slide, which I could then drag around and resize, but the transformation tools seemed buggy and didn't really work well).

I'll certainly try out Cryptpad

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

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post #29

QCAD[1] I Used it to create home improvement drawings. bit of a learning curve but very flexible and powerful 1 - https://www.qcad.org/

What I love about qcad is how keyboard-driven it is. Are there other cad programs that I can operate mostly by typing instead of clicking?

There's OpenSCAD, but I don't think it's exactly what you mean

https://openscad.org/

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

#58

Phil Harvey’s exiftool [0]. Despite being a command-line tool, it is widely known and used by professional and advanced amateur photographers to extract or repair metadata in images. It does handle more than just still images. It’s written in perl and the perl API for handling the metadata is documented, but I’ve never seen anyone use that directly. [0] exiftool.org

I created an account here to say this: Exiftool doesn't only work with image files, either. I use it to extract metadata from audio files as part of a toolchain that creates playlists automatically from my music metadata.

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

#59

Bruno https://www.usebruno.com/ https://github.com/usebruno/bruno Alternative to postman, that's fully local and syncs to git easily. Unlike hoppskotch and insomnia that are free, but offer paid sync, Bruno just works in git. Unlike others, it doesn't dump JSON that's hard to diff, but has its own easily diffable format. You can share your collections in your existing git, with your existing accounts and PRs. Also ha…

We recently stumbled upon Bruno and it's been great so far. Our team has been exploring alternatives to Postman, and Bruno's recent updates on Oauth2 made it an obvious choice. I hope that more people start using Bruno and contribute to its development.

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

#60

Bruno https://www.usebruno.com/ https://github.com/usebruno/bruno Alternative to postman, that's fully local and syncs to git easily. Unlike hoppskotch and insomnia that are free, but offer paid sync, Bruno just works in git. Unlike others, it doesn't dump JSON that's hard to diff, but has its own easily diffable format. You can share your collections in your existing git, with your existing accounts and PRs. Also ha…

> All open-source contributors of Bruno will receive a free license for the Golden Edition. I'm a fan of this idea. I hope we see more attempts to make open source sustainable while still keeping the product accessible like this project.
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