25 funded projects you can contribute in open source
Anmol Baranwal
Posted on June 18, 2024
The reputation of funded projects is very strong because they have secured substantial funds and are backed by ventures.
There are so many projects that are open source, and you should definitely contribute to those especially because their credibility is way higher.
There might be a chance where you can get a direct job offer, after all, you don't really know who is watching you in open source!
I've kept only active projects (last commit under 2 months) so it will be useful. Let's keep it short and straight.
1. Taipy - Data and AI algorithms into production level web apps.
Taipy is the perfect Python library for easy, end-to-end application development, featuring what-if analyses, smart pipeline execution, built-in scheduling, and deployment tools.
It's used for creating a GUI interface for Python-based Data & AI applications and improving data flow management.
The key is performance and Taipy is the perfect choice for that especially when compared to Streamlit. You can read the detailed comparison of Taipy vs Streamlit by Marktechpost.
- 💰 Secured a total funding of $5M.
- 🚀 Primary language used is Python.
Taipy has almost 10k stars on GitHub and is on the v3.1 release.
2. Hoppscotch - API Development Ecosystem.
Hoppscotch is a lightweight, web-based API development suite. It was built from the ground up with ease of use and accessibility in mind.
Hoppscotch is very similar to Postman but provides a few different features. This is what the dashboard looks like and you can test things live at hoppscotch.io.
Postman requires you to be online even for testing local APIs. With Hoppscotch, you can work with your APIs without an internet connection.
Even the web app operates offline by caching locally and functioning as a PWA, allowing you to test APIs anywhere, anytime!
Hoppscotch also provides a private workspace. See the list of complete features.
The best part and necessary one is that they provide complete docs which includes guides, articles, support, and a changelog so you can see all of the stuff here.
- 💰 Secured a total funding of $3M.
- 🚀 Primary language used is TypeScript.
Hoppscotch has 60k+ stars on GitHub with 300+ active issues and 200+ contributors.
3. Daily - the homepage every developer deserves.
It's a professional network where you can read articles and personalize news feeds related to the developer ecosystem.
They aggregate valuable posts from various topics across many organizations like Hacker News, Dev, Hashnode, and many more. You can upvote, bookmark, and even create your own squad.
I'm a fan of some of the features, and it would take me hours if I explain everything so it's better to check it out.
This is one of my personal favorite projects that I've contributed to open source. You can check my daily profile.
- 💰 Secured a total funding of $11M.
- 🚀 Primary language used is TypeScript.
Dailydotdev has 17k+ stars on GitHub.
4. Requestly - HTTP Interceptor for browsers.
Requestly was built to save developers time by intercepting and modifying HTTP Requests.
Requestly helps front-end developers with essential tooling & integrations that help them write, test & debug their code 10x faster.
Requestly reduces dependency on backend devs and environments for development & testing needs.
Using Requestly, devs can create mock, test, validate & override API responses, modify request & response headers, set up redirects (Map local, Map remote), and use Requestly sessions for faster debugging.
You can see the list of complete features.
- 💰 Secured a seed funding of $500k.
- 🚀 Primary language used is TypeScript.
Requestly has 1.8k+ stars on GitHub and is growing at a rapid pace.
5. Resend - email for developers.
Email might be the most important medium for people to communicate. However, we need to stop developing emails like in 2010 and rethink how email can be done in 2022 and beyond. It should be modernized for the way we build web apps today.
They provide a lot of different repositories corresponding to the tech stack we are using. Feel free to explore each of these.
- 💰 Secured a seed funding of $3.5M.
- 🚀 Primary language used is TypeScript (React email).
Resend (React email) has 12.5k+ stars on GitHub and is used by 7.5k+ developers.
6. Buildship - Low-code Visual Backend Builder powered by AI.
For the apps you are building, with no-code app builders (FlutterFlow, Webflow, Framer, Adalo, Bubble, BravoStudio...) or frontend frameworks (Next.js, React, Vue...), you need a backend to support scalable APIs, secure workflows, automation, and more.
BuildShip gives you a completely visual way to build these backend tasks scalably in an easy-to-use fully hosted experience.
This means you don't need to wrangle or deploy things on the cloud platform or perform DevOps. Just Build and Ship, instantly 🚀
They even collaborated with TypeSense and growing very fast!
I have tried Buildship, and it's powerful.
- 💰 Private funding (backed by Google, Vercel, Figma, and more).
- 🚀 Primary language used is TypeScript.
It has 260+ stars on GitHub which is done using Rowy and has 5.8k stars.
7. Cal - Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone.
This is one of the most active projects of all time. I've seen a bunch of paid gigs via Algora by Cal as well.
Earlier, I used Calendly but I switched it to Cal especially because they provide more flexibility in terms of links you can make.
For instance, I have a collab link where the people can choose the duration of the meeting and fix timings in other links. You can attach it to almost every app like GMeet, Zoom, or even sync payments if you want to take paid sessions. The total options for integrations of apps are almost unbelievable :)
You can do a lot of stuff including automating workflows so just check it out.
- 💰 Secured total funding (series A) of $32.4M.
- 🚀 Primary language used is TypeScript.
Cal has 29k+ stars on GitHub and has more than 600 contributors.
8. Penpot - design tool for perfect collaboration.
Penpot is the first open-source design tool for design and code collaboration. Designers can create stunning designs, interactive prototypes, and design systems at scale, while developers enjoy ready-to-use code and make their workflow easy and fast. And all of this with no handoff drama.
Completely free and works with open standards (SVG, CSS, and HTML).
See the list of libraries & templates and features in one go.
Watch the below video to experience Penpot 2.0.
- 💰 Secured a total funding of $8M.
- 🚀 Primary language used is Clojure.
Penpot has 28.5k+ stars on GitHub and is on the v2.0 release.
9. Appsmith - Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards.
Admin panels and dashboards are some of the common parts of any software idea (in most cases) and I've tried to build it from scratch which is a lot of pain with unnecessary hard work.
You would have seen organizations build internal applications such as dashboards, database GUIs, admin panels, approval apps, customer support dashboards, and more to help their teams perform day-to-day operations. As I said, Appsmith is an open source tool that enables the rapid development of these internal apps.
For starters, watch this YouTube video that explains Appsmith in 100 seconds.
They provide Drag and drop widgets to build UI.
You can use 45+ customizable widgets to create beautiful responsive UI in minutes without writing a single line of HTML/CSS. Find the complete list of widgets.
You can read the docs and use any of these 20+ templates so you can quickly get started.
- 💰 Secured a seed funding of $5M.
- 🚀 Primary language used is TypeScript.
Appsmith has 32k+ stars on GitHub with 200+ releases.
10. Twenty - the modern alternative to Salesforce.
We’ve spent thousands of hours grappling with traditional CRMs like Pipedrive and Salesforce to align them with our business needs, only to end up frustrated — customizations are complex and the closed ecosystems of these platforms can feel restrictive.
Twenty is a modern, powerful, affordable platform to manage your customer relationships. You can read the user guide.
- 💰 Secured a seed funding of $759k.
- 🚀 Primary language used is TypeScript.
Twenty has 14.5k+ stars on GitHub with 200+ contributors.
11. Continue - AI code assistant.
Continue is the leading open-source AI code assistant. You can connect any models and any context to build custom autocomplete and chat experiences inside VS Code & JetBrains.
Tab to autocomplete code suggestions.
Refactor functions where you are coding.
Ask questions about your codebase.
Quickly use documentation as context
Read the quickstart guide.
- 💰 Secured a seed funding of $2.1M.
- 🚀 Primary language used is TypeScript.
Continue has 12k+ stars on GitHub and is on the v0.8 release.
12. Refine - open source Retool for Enterprise.
Refine is a meta React framework that enables the rapid development of a wide range of web applications.
From internal tools to admin panels, B2B apps, and dashboards, it serves as a comprehensive solution for building any type of CRUD application such as DevOps dashboards, e-commerce platforms, or CRM solutions.
You can set it with a single CLI command in under a minute.
It has connectors for 15+ backend services including Hasura, Appwrite, and more.
But the best part is that Refine is headless by design, thereby offering unlimited styling and customization options.
You can see the templates.
- 💰 Secured a total funding of $3.8M.
- 🚀 Primary language used is TypeScript.
They have around 25k+ stars on GitHub and are used by 3k+ developers.
13. Revideo - Create Videos with Code.
Revideo is an open source framework for programmatic video editing. It is forked from the amazing Motion Canvas editor, to turn it from a standalone application into a library that developers can use to build entire video editing apps.
Revideo lets you create video templates in Typescript and deploy an API endpoint to render them with dynamic inputs. It also provides a React player component to preview changes in the browser in real time.
- 💰 Secured a total funding of $5M.
- 🚀 Primary language used is TypeScript.
Revideo has 1.2k stars on GitHub and has very less active issues. In short, a perfect less-crowded project to contribute.
14. Million - make your React 70% faster.
Million.js is an extremely fast and lightweight optimizing compiler that makes components up to 70% faster. Explore it yourself!
- 💰 Secured a total funding of $500k.
- 🚀 Primary language used is TypeScript.
Million has 15.5k+ stars on GitHub and is used by 3k+ developers.
15. FlowiseAI - Drag & drop UI to build your customized LLM flow.
Flowise is an open source UI visual tool to build your customized LLM orchestration flow & AI agents.
You can read the docs.
- 💰 Secured funding from YCombinator (don't know how much).
- 🚀 Primary language used is TypeScript.
FlowiseAI has 26.5k+ Stars on GitHub and has more than 13k forks so it has a good overall ratio.
16. Trigger - background jobs platform.
Trigger.dev v3 makes it easy to write reliable long-running tasks without timeouts.
Create Jobs where they belong: in your codebase. Version control, localhost, test, review, and deploy like you're already used to.
you can choose to use the Trigger Cloud or Self-host Trigger on your own infrastructure.
Read the quickstart guide in the docs.
- 💰 Secured a total funding of $3M.
- 🚀 Primary language used is TypeScript.
Trigger has 7.5k stars on GitHub and is on the v3.1 release.
17. Tiptap - headless rich text editor framework.
The Tiptap Editor is a headless, framework-agnostic rich text editor that's customizable and extendable through extensions. Its headless nature means it comes without a set user interface, offering full design freedom (for a jumpstart, see linked UI templates below). Tiptap is based on the highly reliable ProseMirror library.
Tiptap Editor is complemented by the collaboration open-source backend Hocuspocus. Both the Editor and Hocuspocus form the foundation of the Tiptap Suite.
I recommend reading docs with the examples along with detailed code.
- 💰 Secured a total funding of $2.6M.
- 🚀 Primary language used is TypeScript.
Tiptap has 24k+ stars on GitHub with 300+ contributors.
18. Infisical - secret management platform.
Infisical is the open source secret management platform that teams use to centralize their secrets like API keys, database credentials, and configurations.
They are making secret management more accessible to everyone, not just security teams, and that means redesigning the entire developer experience from the ground up.
Infisical also provides a set of tools to automatically prevent secret leaks to git history. This functionality can be set up on the level of Infisical CLI using pre-commit hooks or through direct integration with platforms like GitHub.
You can read the docs and check on how to install the CLI which is the best way to use it.
Do check their license before using the whole source code because they have some enterprise-level code that is protected under MIT Expat but don't worry, most of the code is free to use.
- 💰 Secured a total funding of $2.9M.
- 🚀 Primary language used is TypeScript.
They have 12.5k+ stars on GitHub with 130+ releases. Plus the Infiscial CLI is installed more than 5.4M times so it's very trustworthy.
19. HyperDX - observability platform unifying session replays, logs, metrics, traces, and errors.
HyperDX helps engineers quickly figure out why production is broken by centralizing and correlating logs, metrics, traces, exceptions, and session replays in one place.
An open source and developer-friendly alternative to Datadog and New Relic. Read the docs.
- 💰 Secured a total funding of $500k.
- 🚀 Primary language used is TypeScript.
HyperDX has 6k+ stars on GitHub.
20. Highlight - full-stack monitoring platform.
highlight.io is a monitoring tool for the next generation of developers (like you!). Unlike the age-old, outdated tools out there, they aim to build a cohesive, modern, and fully-featured monitoring solution.
- 💰 Secured a total funding of $8.5M.
- 🚀 Primary language used is TypeScript.
Highlight has 7k+ stars on GitHub.
21. Panora - add an integration catalog to your SaaS product in minutes.
Panora helps you put your product at the core of your customer's daily workflows.
Your customers expect all of their tools to work well together. Panora avoids your team spending hundreds of hours building and maintaining integrations instead of your core product.
Check out the quickstart guide.
- 💰 Secured a total funding of $500k (might be more).
- 🚀 Primary language used is TypeScript.
Panora has 300+ stars on GitHub and is in the very early stage.
22. Fleet - platform for IT, security, and infrastructure teams.
Open source platform for IT and security teams with thousands of computers. Designed for APIs, GitOps, webhooks, YAML, and humans.
Organizations like Fastly and Gusto use Fleet for vulnerability reporting, detection engineering, device management (MDM), device health monitoring, posture-based access control, managing unused software licenses, and more.
- 💰 Secured a total funding of $25M.
- 🚀 Primary language used is Go.
Fleet has 2.5k stars on GitHub.
23. Ballerine - infrastructure and data orchestration platform for risk decisions.
Ballerine is an Open-Source Risk Management Infrastructure that helps global payment companies, marketplaces, and Fintechs to automate their decisions for merchants, sellers, and users throughout the customer lifecycle.
From account-opening (KYC, KYB), underwriting, and transaction monitoring, using a flexible rules & workflow engine, 3rd party plugin system, manual review back office, and document & information collection frontend flows.
- 💰 Secured a total funding of $5.5M.
- 🚀 Primary language used is TypeScript.
Ballerine has 2k stars on GitHub with 700+ releases.
24. Tooljet - Low-code platform for building business applications.
We all build frontend, but it is generally way complex, and a lot of factors are involved. This can save a lot of hassle.
ToolJet is an open-source low-code framework to build and deploy internal tools with minimal engineering effort.
ToolJet's drag-and-drop frontend builder allows you to create complex, responsive frontends within minutes.
You can integrate various data sources, including databases like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch; API endpoints with OpenAPI spec and OAuth2 support; SaaS tools such as Stripe, Slack, Google Sheets, Airtable, and Notion; as well as object storage services like S3, GCS, and Minio, to fetch and write data. Everything :)
This is how Tooljet works.
You can develop multi-step workflows in ToolJet to automate business processes. In addition to building and automating workflows, ToolJet allows for easy integration of these workflows within your applications.
You can read the docs and see the How to guides.
- 💰 Secured a total funding of $6.2M (one of the investors is GitHub).
- 🚀 Primary language used is JavaScript.
Tooljet has 27.8k+ stars on GitHub and 500+ contributors.
25. mattermost - secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle.
Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle.
This repo is the primary source for core development on the Mattermost platform; it's written in Go and React and runs as a single Linux binary with MySQL or PostgreSQL. A new compiled version is released under an MIT license every month on the 16th.
- 💰 Secured a total funding of $73.5M.
- 🚀 Primary language used is TypeScript.
Mattermost has 28.4k+ stars on GitHub with 600+ active issues and 900+ contributors.
I'm very surprised that so many funded projects use TypeScript over JavaScript. Are you?
If you know of any other funded projects or want me to make a part 2.
Let me know in the comments with your favorite from this list.
Have a great day! Till next time.
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Posted on June 18, 2024
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