Hey friends,

In this week's article, we're excited to unveil the finalists of the 2023 Golden Kitty Award in the open-source category!

For those new to it, the Golden Kitty Award is a prestigious yearly event honouring the best product innovations on Product Hunt.

We have also added, where applicable, a Contributor's Corner, tailored for readers keen on contributing to these projects.

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At Quora, we use ML to match developers with GitHub issues.

This means we are constantly on a quest to discover the hidden gems within the open-source ecosystem!

Talking about Quests, we recently released Solver Quests, an initiative to matchmake the right issue with the right contributor.

Whether you are a developer and want to solve issues & earn rewards, or you are an open-source organisation looking for your next top contributor, you can check out "Solver Quest" on Quora.

With this in mind, let's explore Product Hunt's favourite open-source projects from 2023. 👇

🥇 Golden Kitty Award's Winner

Novu

• Novu simplifies all your communication channels into a simple workflow of Emails, SMSs, Push notifications, and In-app notifications.
• Users can create a drag-and-drop workflow with all their channels, including filters, delays, and digest notifications.
• Some of its main features include CMS for design, debug dashboard, and an embeddable real-time notification centre.

🏗️ Contributors Corner: ~32,000 stars, ~95% reply rate, ~2 days median merge time, ~280 issues, repo written in TS (94%) and Python (3%).

You can find their repo on GitHub here.

🏆 Runners up

1️⃣ Documenso

• Documenso is a digital signing platform and alternative to DocuSign.
• Documenso integrates into any business with extensive customisation options and an open API.
• It also provides self-hosting to enjoy a trustworthy and open trust infrastructure.

🛠️ Contributors Corner: ~5,600 stars, ~99% reply rate, ~2 days median merge time, ~50 issues, repo primarily written in Python.

You can find their repo on GitHub here.

2️⃣ Stablility-AI

• Stability-AI built Stable Diffusion, an open-source image-generating AI project.
• Its flexible plugin system allows integration with any backend service.
• Stable diffusion includes models for image variation, mixing operations, and fine-tuning capabilities.

You can access their GitHub link here.

3️⃣ Tiledesk

• Tiledesk is a no-code platform for crafting chatbots and conversational apps powered by LLMs.
• Users can share them freely with the community of chatbot developers, automation specialists, and conversation and prompt designers.
• Features include drag-and-drop interface, ChatGPT integration, and pre-designed conversations.

You can access their GitHub link here.

👏 Shortlisted

The Hello Kitty Award also includes a shortlist of outstanding open-source projects. We wanted to give a special shoutout to below three.

n8n

• n8n offers workflow automation. It enables connections across any app with a node-based design.
• It boasts over 200 integrations, facilitating seamless workflow automation across various platforms and services.
• n8n adopts a fair-code distribution model, ensuring source code visibility, self-hosting capabilities, and customisation options.

🧑‍💻 Contributors Corner: ~39,400 stars, ~97% reply rate, ~16 hours median merge time, ~170 issues, repo written in TS (~90%) and Vue (~10%).

You can find their repo on GitHub here.

Requestly

• Requestly accelerates web and mobile app development with integrated debugging tools.
• It combines the functionalities of Charles Proxy, Fiddler, and Postman in a modern UI.
• Its main features include HTTP rules, API client, mock server, and collaborative sessions.

🧱 Contributors Corner: ~1,600 stars, ~72% reply rate, ~2 hours median merge time, ~110 issues, repo written mainly in JS (~50%) and TS (~40%).

You can find their repo on GitHub here.

Lago

• Lago is an open-source solution for nuanced metering and usage-based billing.
• It integrates event-based billing with subscription and usage pricing models.
• Lago is designed for product-led growth and ensures privacy and flexibility without revenue sharing.

🌟 Contributors Corner: ~5,300 stars, 100% reply rate, ~1 hour median merge time, 5 issues, repo written in Shell.

You can find their repo on GitHub here.

If you are looking for the full shortlist, you can find it here. Special thanks to @fmerian for sharing it! 🙏

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!

See you next week,

Your Dev.to buddy 💚

Bap

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