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10 GitHub repos with 1,8M+ combined stars ⭐ that replace tools costing $30,000+/year 1. awesome ⭐495k - the list of every other list. Whatever you're looking for, it's here. 2. public-apis ⭐456k - 1,400+ free APIs across 50 categories. Weather, finance, images, games, all documented. 3. scrapling ⭐73.6k -...

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AI Mastery Guide1 month ago

Saving this whole list

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hitu1 month ago

bookmarking this list right now for future projects

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Petey struggles1 month ago

hey codex build me a service containing all of these tools make no mistakes and do the distribution for me i cant be arsed

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beamnxw ./1 month ago

best repos!

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ieatded1 month ago

Wow thank you Saved it

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Fox1 month ago

yooo man fire repos already booked them

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ALEXYZ1 month ago

public apis is a goldmine huge value here

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Gregor1 month ago

public-apis is optimism in a list. tried 6 finance category entries, 3 deprecated, 2 rate-capped at 100 req/month. the $30k tool buys you a phone call when prod dies at 2am

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Hussain Hashim | Building SundayBack1 month ago

@unicodef1wn wow, this is gold. public-apis has been a game-changer for my projects. saves so much time and money!

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AI Apps API1 month ago

Good list. The caveat worth adding is that stars and production readiness are different numbers. The repos that hold up are the ones with a real release cadence and an issue tracker where maintainers still answer, which is not always the ones with the biggest count.

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sum11 month ago

I haven't heard of open-design ths for sharing

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TARAS PD1 month ago

Curating these resources is a smart way to build your own toolkit. Shifting from consumer to creator of value often starts with recognizing where you can redirect your own attention and effort.

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unicode1 month ago

you should focus your attention on things that are useful and can save you money

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yuhao1 month ago

请问使用的屏幕录制软件是什么?

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unicode1 month ago

i use Screen Studio to make my videos

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yuhao1 month ago

谢谢!我知道了

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Azeem1 month ago

cool

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Wallchain Community Hub1 month ago

absolute alpha right here, saved

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Gipp 🦅1 month ago

free tiers matter more when tools replace recurring subscriptions

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0xbobaa1 month ago

Thanks for such a great selection

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unicode1 month ago

you're welcome, bro! i'm glad you liked it

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biektropic1 month ago

$30k saved on SaaS, 300 hours added to maintaining your own stack

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Dwight Hopkins1 month ago

Great post!

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外贸 AI 获客实战派 · 老周1 month ago

the 'free repo replaces $30k tool' math always skips the real cost — your time wiring it up, maintaining it, and the 2am breakage. sometimes the boring paid tool is actually cheaper than the free one

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Sam Lee1 month ago

Thank you

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_alphashark_1 month ago

Has anyone pushed scrapling against Cloudflare's newer Turnstile challenges, or is the bypass still Cloudflare-classic only?

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Kai Benetti1 month ago

good sources. thx

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Yumzlef1 month ago

what he built with AI is the kind of thing that would have taken a full team a year ago — that's the shift people aren't seeing

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Granite1 month ago

ollama is the one on here i actually kept. running models locally with no api bill quietly killed half my subscriptions

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Blum1 month ago

found a couple of seriously useful repos here

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DANHO B. ESAIE1 month ago

Wonderful 🤩 big thank 😊

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qurool1 month ago

with ai era there are a lot of git hub repos that everyone needs

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Vikram Grover1 month ago

Worth checking out Lanesra OS — an open-source CRM with low-code configuration, workflow automation, code extensibility, custom objects and APIs. Built to be flexible, extensible and free from per-user licensing.

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Kaivorn1 month ago

that awesome list is a rabbit hole always find something new

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unicode1 month ago

yep. my selections are perfect for everyone

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dhinna ship .ico1 month ago

Public-apis lists them until the quota expires

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Kb1 month ago

@grok find api sources where i can find these repos & more new trending ones

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hailports1 month ago

the real cost of "free" is the friday night you spend debugging some maintainer's half-abandoned fork instead of paying for the thing that just works.

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Jeffrey1 month ago

Thank you, great collection of resources

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Joey1 month ago

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