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This is a curated list of innovative, open web technologies.

Table of Contents:

Applications

Communication

Chat

  • Commune – Community platform, specifically designed for public-by-default communities.
  • positive-intentions: chat – Decentralized chat app for messaging, file sharing, and virtual reality experiences.
  • Revolt – User-first chat platform inspired by Discord.

Microblog

  • Hometown – A supported fork of Mastodon that provides local posting and a wider range of content types.
  • Kitsune – (Fast) ActivityPub-federated microblogging.
  • Mastodon – A decentralized microblogging platform built on ActivityPub.
  • Memos – Privacy-first, lightweight note-taking service with multi-tenancy and sharing capabilities.

Forum

  • Answer – A Q&A platform software for teams at any scales.
  • Bonfire – Social networking toolkit for crafting digital spaces that empower communities.
  • Flarum – Modern and fast community platform and framework.
  • kbin – A federated platform for content aggregation and microblogging.
  • Mbin – A community-focused fork of kbin including many improvements.
  • Lemmy – Link aggregator and forum for the fediverse, like Reddit.

Mail

  • Maddy – Composable all-in-one mail server.
  • Stalwart – Secure & modern all-in-one mail server (IMAP, JMAP, POP3, SMTP).

Webtops / Web OSes

  • anuraOS – A web "OS" and development environment with full Linux emulation.
  • daedalOS – Browser-based desktop environment with many features.
  • FriendOS – A responsive desktop environment that runs in the browser, allowing to work and play, collaboratively, across devices.
  • kodbox – Webtop providing a file manager, code editor, and collaboration features.
  • OS.js – JavaScript Web Desktop Platform.
  • Pluto – Minimal and functional Webtop.
  • Puter – Full-featured Internet OS.

AI Platforms

Chat UIs

  • ChatBSV – AI chat and microservices in exchange for tiny Bitcoin microtransactions.
  • Chatlabs – All-in-one LLM chat platform based on Chatbot UI v2.
  • HackerGPT – Ethical hacking AI for web application hacking (based on Chatbot UI v2).
  • Hugging Face Chat UI – Open source codebase powering the HuggingChat app.
  • LibreChat – Enhanced ChatGPT clone supporting many AI backends.
  • Open WebUI – User-friendly WebUI for LLMs (formerly Ollama WebUI).
  • Samurai – AI chat for every model (based on Chatbot UI v2).

Agents

  • OpenDevin – Platform for autonomous AI software engineers.

Search / Research

  • Perplexica – An open source Perplexity AI clone utilizing SearXNG for search (supports Ollama).

Devops

  • Forgejo – Self-hostable lightweight software forge (soft fork of Gitea by independent Codeberg e.V.).
  • Gitea – Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service.

General

Graphics and Design

  • Penpot – Design tool that bridges the gap between designers and developers.

Identity and Authentication

  • Authelia – Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps.
  • Rauthy – OpenID Connect Single Sign-On Identity & Access Management.
  • Weird – A decentralized web persona builder and identity provider.

Storage

  • Garage – An open-source distributed object storage service tailored for self-hosting.

Infrastructure

  • boringproxy – Simple tunneling reverse proxy with a fast web UI and auto HTTPS. Designed for self-hosters.
  • Seabreeze – A really simple container orchestration tool with superpowers, optimized for the management of web applications.

Protocols and Specifications

Communication

Chat

  • Matrix – An open protocol for decentralised, secure communications.
  • Polyproto – Advanced, secure and scalable protocol for federated chat services.
  • XMPP – An open protocol for real-time messaging and presence.

Microblog

Webtops / Web OSes

  • web-os-spec – Specification for the protocol handler web+os.

Devops

  • ForgeFed – Federation protocol for software forges and code collaboration tools.

General

Database

  • GUN – An open source cybersecurity protocol and ecosystem of tools for syncing decentralized graph data.

Identity and Authentication

  • OAuth 2.0 – An open standard for access delegation, commonly used for token-based authentication.
  • IndieAuth – An identity layer on top of OAuth 2.0, primarily used to obtain an OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token for use by Micropub clients.

Storage

  • Earthstar – Specification and JavaScript library for a small and resilient distributed storage protocol.
  • IPFS – A set of composable, peer-to-peer protocols for addressing, routing, and transferring content-addressed data in a decentralized file system.
  • Iroh – A protocol for syncing bytes of any size across any number of devices, and a toolkit for building distributed apps.
  • Noosphere – A protocol for thought, defining a worldwide knowledge graph on top of IPFS.
  • Solid – A specification that lets people store their data securely in decentralized data stores.
  • Willow – Lightweight protocol for peer-to-peer data stores, featuring fine-grained permissions, a keen approach to privacy, and destructive edits.

Monetization

  • Web Monetization API – Allows websites to automatically and passively receive payments from Web Monetization-enabled visitors.

Infrastructure

DNS

  • DomainConnect – Specification for an open DNS delegation protocol.
  • NameDrop – Specification for an open, easy-to-implement DNS delegation protocol.