Top Fun Open-Source Projects

1. tinyrenderer

   1 64 22,105 2.8 C++

   A brief computer graphics / rendering course

   

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

3. tinyraytracer

   2 10 5,147 0.0 C++

   A brief computer graphics / rendering course

   

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5. dns.toys

   4 30 2,669 6.0 Go

   A DNS server that offers useful utilities and services over the DNS protocol. Weather, world time, unit conversion etc.

   

   Project mention: AI-Powered DNS for TXT Queries! | dev.to | 2025-01-18

   This is a fun project for me. I was thinking of doing this project for a long time. This project is inspired by https://github.com/knadh/dns.toys.

6. tinykaboom

   5 2 2,379 0.0 C++

   A brief computer graphics / rendering course

   

7. art

   6 14 2,291 6.4 Python

   🎨 ASCII art library for Python

   

8. awesome-streamlit

   7 1 2,158 0.0 HTML

   The purpose of this project is to share knowledge on how awesome Streamlit is and can be

   

9. SaaSHub

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10. sshportal

    8 7 1,880 0.0 Go

    :tophat: simple, fun and transparent SSH (and telnet) bastion server

    

11. LiquidBounce

    9 51 1,792 9.9 Kotlin

    A free Minecraft hacked client (utility mod) for Fabric

    

12. catimg

    10 2 1,466 0.0 C

    🦦 Insanely fast image printing in your terminal

    

13. gitanimals

    11 1 1,381 9.5 Kotlin

    🦆 깃허브 활동으로 펫을 키우세요 / Have pet in your github

    

    Project mention: It's dangerous to go alone! Take this. | dev.to | 2024-12-25

    Starting to grow your pets is simple, you can easily do it by going to the GitAnimals homepage and clicking on “Have Pet”, the bottom will direct you to your GitHub account asking for authorization to access your public data. After accepting, you will be redirected to the GitAnimals website for customization. You can buy pets with commit points or get a new random one when you accumulate 30 commits. As you can see on the project homepage you can add your pets to your GitHub profile, be it just your main pet or all your pets in "Farm" mode and it’s important to highlight that you have more than 50 options of pets and you can see them all at their GitHub Documentation. As a cat person, I chose a Galchi Cat cause it looks like my old companion Nina who crossed the rainbow bridge recently but they even had special pets for commemorative dates, slimes, and pets with slack tags (Penguin Linux with a Penguin Linux is so good and I hope to get one pretty soon). Now, it’s your time to go and choose your favorite pet! If you like this project idea, create your pets and share them with our community, give a star to their repository, and if you have any ideas or want to make it even better read the docs and contact them.

14. ModiScript

    12 2 1,040 0.0 Python

    Acche din aa gaye

    

15. CircleBar

    13 0 872 0.0 Swift

    A fun, easy-to-use tab bar navigation controller for iOS.

    

16. ecoji

    14 2 856 0.0 Go

    Encodes (and decodes) data as emojis

    

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18. Loritta

    16 3 703 9.9 Kotlin

    💁 A multipurpose, multilanguage, customizable, modular, and very cute bot for Discord! ~Making your server more awesome~

    

19. rspotify

    17 6 670 7.8 Rust

    Spotify Web API SDK implemented on Rust (by ramsayleung)

    

20. aussieplusplus

    18 28 631 0.0 Rust

    Programming language from down under

    

    Project mention: Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language (2021) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-14

    Reminds me of aussue++[1] from a few years ago.

    [1] https://github.com/zackradisic/aussieplusplus/

21. awesome-dev-fun

    19 1 619 0.0

    A curated list of awesome fun libs/packages/languages that have no real purpose but to make a developer chuckle.

    

22. purrcrypt

    20 1 511 3.9 Rust

    A fur-ociously secure encryption tool that encodes your secrets as adorable cat and dog sounds, using real elliptic curve cryptography with a playful disguise.

    

    Project mention: PurrCrypt: Steganographic Encryption Disguised as Pet Sounds | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-06

23. Python-Raytracer

    21 3 491 3.3 Python

    A basic Ray Tracer that exploits numpy arrays and functions to work reasonably fast.

    

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    Project mention: Backup GitHub Repositories with gidek | dev.to | 2024-08-05

    git clone --mirror https://github.com/terremoth/awesome-hilarious-repos.git

25. esmBot

    23 1 437 9.7 TypeScript

    A free and open-source Discord bot designed to entertain your server

    

26. SaaSHub

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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