🌱 8 seed stage OS projects you should pay attention to 👀
Tags: opensource, programming, productivity, discuss
Published: 2024-04-26 14:06:35

Hey friends 👋

Every week, our team at [Quine](https://quine.sh/) scans the open-source ecosystem for great projects to discuss. 

For this week's article, we focused on projects currently in the pre-seed or seed-round funding stages.

After a little bit of manual filtering, we found the below repos. 👇

We have also added a _Contributors Corner_ for the readers interested in contributing to the projects.

Let's jump straight into it! 🐣

![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/6avl3xzwl4lueumxmdhr.gif)

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##  [Configu](https://configu.com/)



[![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/me40plf4iwhylf1dgz6t.png)](https://configu.com/)


- Configu is a modern configuration management system designed to streamline and secure the handling of software configurations across different environments and systems.
- It provides a unified API for various configuration tasks, supports multiple deployment contexts, and ensures security through a robust type system and policy framework.
- Configu is highly adaptable, supporting customisation through community contributions, and integrates into the software development lifecycle to enhance configuration management practices.


**🦾 Contributors Corner:**

- 1500 stars
- 50% reply rate
- 60 open issues
- Repo is mainly written in TS (60%), Python (25%), and Go (10%).

You can check the repo on GitHub [here](https://github.com/configu/configu).



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##  [CloudGraph](https://www.cloudgraph.dev/)



[![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/ja6o5x46j1ocbzdnyh7m.png)](https://www.cloudgraph.dev/)


- CloudGraph is a universal GraphQL API and Cloud Security Posture Management tool that integrates with AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes, enabling streamlined cloud resource management and security compliance checks.
- It offers features like type-safe asset inventories, automatically generated documentation and historical snapshots of cloud data. 
- It also offers the capability to perform complex queries across multiple cloud providers from a single endpoint. CloudGraph supports installation via Homebrew or NPM.


**🦾 Contributors Corner:**

- 870 stars
- 2 open issues
- repo mainly written in TS (90%) and JS (5%).

You can check the repo on GitHub [here](https://github.com/cloudgraphdev/cli).




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##  [PikNik Robotics](https://picknik.ai/)



[![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/904ghlhudqfhbg0urwaj.png)](https://picknik.ai/)



- PickNik develops and integrates robotic applications with particular expertise in motion planning, complex inverse kinematics, and controls.
- The rviz_visual_tools package builds on basic geometric markers with more complex visualisation tools and supports extensive customisation for advanced robotics visualisation needs.
- The C++ API wrapper for Rviz is designed to enhance visualisation by offering helper functions that simplify the publication of shapes and meshes, which is particularly beneficial for debugging and data display in robotics.


**🦾 Contributors Corner:**

- 700 stars
- < 1 hour median merge time
- 21 open issues
- Repo mainly written in C++

You can check the repo on GitHub [here](https://github.com/PickNikRobotics/rviz_visual_tools).



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##  [dlt Hub](https://dlthub.com/)



[![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/a665dj86vmplr7hybn9l.png)](https://dlthub.com/)



- dlt is an open-source Python library for data loading across various environments.
- Be it a Google Colab notebook, AWS Lambda function, an Airflow DAG, your local laptop, or a GPT-4 assisted development playground — dlt can be dropped in anywhere.
- It offers automatic schema creation, data normalisation, and scalable integration with tools like Airflow and DuckDB.



**🦾 Contributors Corner:**

- 1700 stars
- 45% reply rate
- 1 day median merge time
- 122 open issues
- Repo mainly written in Python

You can check the repo on GitHub [here](https://github.com/dlt-hub/dlt).


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##  [Netbird](https://netbird.io/)



[![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/ecdzkt7nkmojgxfil0ih.png)](https://netbird.io/)




- NetBird integrates peer-to-peer private networking with a centralised access control system, utilising WireGuard to establish secure, encrypted connections without complex configurations.
- It provides a user-friendly admin interface for managing access policies and supports various platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, and mobile devices.
- NetBird offers a solution that supports advanced security features like multi-factor authentication, quantum resistance, and periodic re-authentication, ensuring robust protection across all connections.


**🦾 Contributors Corner:**

- 8,900 stars
- 70% reply rate
- 14 hours median merge time
- 400 open issues
- Repo mainly written in Go.

You can check the repo on GitHub [here](https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird).


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##  [Simplex](https://simplex.chat/)


[![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/v287w4mmjhxwawoupwpk.png)](https://simplex.chat/)



- Simplex is an innovative messaging platform that offers complete privacy without user identifiers, ensuring secure and anonymous communication channels.
- It supports multiple platforms, including mobile and console apps, and integrates features like encrypted group chats, voice messages, and private notifications.
- It also encourages community engagement through app translations, development contributions, and financial donations to support ongoing privacy and security enhancements.


**🦾 Contributors Corner:**

- 5,300 stars
- 30% reply rate
- 16 hours median merge time
- 530 open issues
- Repo mainly written in Haskell (35%), Kotlin (30%) and Swift (25%).

You can check the repo on GitHub [here](https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat).



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##  [Altinity](https://altinity.com/)


[![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/uryg1a8h23o4228icqa3.png)](https://altinity.com/)




- The Altinity Kubernetes operator for ClickHouse simplifies the creation, configuration, and management of ClickHouse clusters on Kubernetes. 
- Key features include automatic ClickHouse cluster scaling and integration with monitoring tools like _Prometheus and Grafana_.
- The tool is available under Apache License 2.0, and there are options for commercial support and consultations.


**🦾 Contributors Corner:**

- 1700 stars
- 90% reply rate
- < 1 hour median merge time
- 100 open issues
- repo written in C++

You can check the repo on GitHub [here](https://github.com/Altinity/clickhouse-operator).


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That's it for this one. 🌟

I hope you enjoyed discovering these projects. If you liked reading this piece, please feel free to share this article with your friends and colleagues!

Also, please consider staring the above repos. We are not associated with them, we simply think great projects deserve great recognition!


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See you next week,

Your Dev.to buddy 💚

Bap


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