8 best opensource projects you should try out
Tags: opensource, nocode, tooling, productivity
Published: 2022-03-22 18:41:38

There are lots of open-source projects which are just 🤯. From productivity tools to B2B applications open source projects are there for you. Let's see some projects worth using and some projects which completely replace paid software 👀.

### Let's get started

## 1. Chatwoot [#](https://www.chatwoot.com)

![chatwoot](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1647946065696/dOuX1W4fr.png)

**Chatwoot**  is an open-source alternative to [Intercom](https://www.intercom.com), [Zendesk](https://www.zendesk.com), [HubSpot](https://www.hubspot.com), Salesforce Service Cloud. Not just live chat, it has support for multiple channels like Email, Facebook page, Twitter handle, WhatsApp etc.

**Features:**
- **Shared inbox** - Collaborate with your team easily with shared inbox means you can assign different tasks from the same inbox to different agents.
- **Live chat** - Add a live chat widget to your website and improve your customer experience.
- **Channels** - Support for multiple channels like Email, WhatsApp, Twitter, Twilio, Facebook, Instagram, Line. Also, you access all the channels from one place, no need to jump between channels.
- **Automations** - Automate repetitive tasks.
- **Chatbots** - Build chatbots with Dialogflow or Rasa and connect to your inbox.
- **Mobile apps(IOS & Android)** - Engage with customers instantly from anywhere with Chatwoots' IOS and Android apps.
- **Integrations** - Integration options available for Slack, WordPress, Dialogflow and Rasa.

Learn how to integrate Live chat widget on your website:
{% embed https://dev.to/itsrakesh/what-is-chatwoot-and-how-to-integrate-it-on-your-website-1i2p %}

## 2. Amplication [#](https://amplication.com)

![amplication](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1647947270373/4rhbxXDet.png)

**Amplication** is a low-code/no-code tool. Generate your NodeJs application along with a beautiful react Admin panel within minutes. Your NodeJs app is just a few clicks away.

**Features:**
- React Admin-UI generated with react-admin.
- NodeJs app with Postgres database.
- GraphQL and RESTAPI.
- Sync with GitHub or download code as a zip file.
- Sandbox environment to develop and test your app without setting it up locally.
- Docker support to deploy to the cloud.

Read how to quickly setup Amplication project:

{% embed https://dev.to/itsrakesh/auto-generate-your-nodejs-app-admin-ui-4880 %}

## 3. Docz [#](https://www.docz.site) (Update: ⚠️ Outdated project)

![docz](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1647957158919/SNG36tnli.png)

**Docz** is a documentation tool based on MDX. It is a simple and easy alternative to [Docusaurus](https://docusaurus.io/). Don't waste time building a documentation website. Use docz to quickly document your project.

**Features:**
- Powered by Gatsby - Fast development experience and speed build times.
- Zero configuration
- Customize however you want.
- Based on MDX
- Plugins
- Typescript support

## 4. Partytown [#](https://partytown.builder.io)

![partytown](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1647958578185/qdDr1UFu5.png)

> Partytown is a lazy-loaded library to help relocate resource-intensive scripts into a web worker, and off of the main thread. Its goal is to help speed up sites by dedicating the main thread to your code and offloading third-party scripts to a web worker.

If you have so many third-party scripts like Google tag manager, Live chat widget, A/B testing, trackers they make the website load slowly, hence effects performance. With Partytown you can load your code from the main thread and third-party scripts in a web worker.

**Features:**
- Integration support for Astro, Gatsby, HTML, NextJS, Nuxt, React, Remix, Hydrogen(Shopify)
- Support for various third-party scripts

## 5. Typesense [#](https://typesense.org)

![typesense](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1647964215173/SiTCQWkHQ.png)

Does your product need a superfast, easy to integrate search engine? Typesense is for you. Typesense is an open-source search engine, an alternative to Algolia and Elasticsearch.

**Features:**
- Typo tolerance
- Easy to set up, operate and scale.
- Fast
- Dynamically sort results based on a particular field at query time.
- Faceting and Filtering
- Group similar results together.
- Search across multiple collections in a single HTTP request.
- and [more...](https://typesense.org/docs/overview/features.html)

## 6. BackdropCMS [#](https://backdropcms.org)

![BackdropCMS](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1647968234924/M7gXAlozv.png)

**Backdrop** is a free and open-source Content Management System built on top of [Drupal](https://www.drupal.org). Build highly customizable websites for free. With backdrop, you can build anything from a personal blog site to an e-commerce website.

**Features:**
- Addons
- Modules
- Different themes
- Layout templates

## 7. Hoppscotch [#](https://hoppscotch.io)

![hoppscotch](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1647970618539/I_NcnjKj6.png)

HoppScotch is an open-source alternative to Postman.

**Features:**
- Lightweight
- Fast
- Themes
- PWA
- GraphQL and REST API
- All the features postman offers

## 8. NocoDB [#](https://nocodb.com)

![nocodb](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1647972145518/5QaIYqL8e.png)

**NokoDB** is an open-source alternative to [Airtable](https://www.airtable.com/). Convert any database into a smart spreadsheet. Cool #nocode tool 😎.

⚠️ **Don't forget to leave a ⭐ on Github to these amazing projects.**

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There are thousands of amazing open-source projects available. I shared some of them that I found interesting. Share your favourite open-source projects in the comments.

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