I'm building Miopoint: an open-source, federated media server for friend groups.

You're all probably familiar with Plex and Jellyfin. They're awesome, but I've always felt they were designed as a one-way street. It's my server, my library, and my friends are just guests. I wanted to build something different—a truly collaborative space.

And I don't just mean for media. I want a private place to share anything with my friends: movies, documents, project folders, zip files, you name it. All in one place with a built-in group chat.

That's why I started Miopoint.

Here's the hook: I got tired of being the bottleneck and the sole provider of storage. So, what if Miopoint wasn't about creating one big server? What if my friend could run their own server at their house, and I could run mine, and we could securely connect them?

Suddenly, our libraries become one giant, virtual library that we can all browse. No more "can you download this for me," and no single person has to shoulder all the storage costs.

The goal is a private, federated network for you and your friends.
Here are the core features I'm aiming for:

Connected Libraries: Each friend hosts their own Miopoint instance and links them together. Everyone shares their own content without giving up control.
Watch Parties Built-In: Sync up a movie from anyone's library and use the integrated chat to talk smack in real-time.
AI-Powered Search: Automatically tag everything so you can search across the entire network for "that 90s sci-fi movie with the weird aliens" and actually find it. Plus, reverse image search for finding scenes.
Shared Compute: This is a cool one. If your PC is too slow for a video transcode or an AI task, you can ask a friend's more powerful server to handle it for you.
File & Chat Hub: More than just media—share any file type and chat securely with your group.

This is my first FOSS project, and I'm learning as I go. I've started the backend with Python/FastAPI, but I've hit the point where my vision is way bigger than what one person can build. The project structure might be weird, and I'm 100% open to being told a better way to do things—even if it means a rewrite.
I'm looking for people who think this idea is cool and want to help shape it:

Frontend Devs: I've started a Svelte frontend, but I'm open to whatever works best. If you have experience with React, Vue, etc., I'd love your input.
Backend Devs: Anyone who knows their way around Python, networking, databases, and APIs.
UI/UX Designers: People who can help make this easy and fun to use for non-techy folks.
DevOps Pros: Help get a solid Docker and CI/CD pipeline going.
Anyone with ideas! Seriously. Your feedback is gold.

If you're interested, please check out the repo. It's the perfect time to get involved and make a real impact on the project's direction.

GitHub Repo: MioPoint

Thanks for reading!

TL;DR: Building Miopoint, a self-hosted server where you and friends connect your separate servers to create one giant, shared library for media, files, and chat. It's an ambitious FOSS project and I'm looking for collaborators of all kinds to help me build it right.

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Meta question: What's the etiquette around scraping GitHub's README.md for open source projects?

Hey so i've been deep diving the N8N ecosystem lately and there's so much cool stuff being built but it's scattered across hundreds of repos. I want to build a curated tracker that pulls readme content to autocategorize these projects for personal use.

My technical approach is pretty straightforward - I found a MCP server from Bright Data that can extract any page as clean markdown, which would be perfect for parsing README files consistently. I wouldn't be hitting it a billion times a minute at all. But before I even write the first prompt/line of code, I'm wondering about the ethics here.

So is scraping a public repo's README files generally acceptable? Should I be reaching out to maintainers first?

I'm pretty new lol and don't want to step on any toes/break any unwritten OSS community rules.

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What service do you guys use to accept donos for your open sources projects?

Hey I'm making a project and desided to make it open source ( this is my first one so any advice is wanted), I wanted to add buy me coffee link and did not know what service to use . I wanted to create this open source porject to help peopl as well as raise money for my company :) its a chrome extentino that auto applys to jobs https://github.com/ClarenceJordanIII/auto\_apply\_chrome\_extension-/tree/master

https://redd.it/1ni1fdz
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pgEdge (distributed, multi-master PostgreSQL) goes Open Source under PostgreSQL license
https://www.pgedge.com/blog/pgedge-goes-open-source

https://redd.it/1ni83lo
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New Mattermost Plugin – Auto Smart Status for Calls

Hey all,

We just released a little plugin for Mattermost called Smart Status. It does one simple thing:

👉 Automatically sets your custom status (like “In a Meeting”) when you join a call, and clears it when you leave.

No more forgetting to flip your status back and forth 🙌

🔗 GitHub: mattermost-plugin-smart-status

It’s open-source, lightweight, and easy to drop into your Mattermost server.

Still early, so feedback/ideas are super welcome! 🚀

— Built by Inocentum Technologies

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An open source bleep machine that lives in your browser
https://neonwatty.github.io/bleep-that-shit/

https://redd.it/1nic66e
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We made an open-source port of Reticulum to Rust. Any feedback & suggestions are very much appreciated

From the README:

Reticulum-rs is a Rust implementation of the Reticulum Network Stack — a cryptographic, decentralised, and resilient mesh networking protocol designed for communication over any physical layer.

This project brings Reticulum's capabilities to the Rust ecosystem, enabling embedded, and constrained deployments with maximum performance and minimal dependencies.

 

We appreciate any feedback and ideas on how to make this better for the community:

https://github.com/BeechatNetworkSystemsLtd/Reticulum-rs

https://redd.it/1nid76o
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Self-Hosted Open-Source Chrome Extension for Visual Web Scraping

Hey everyone,

I just released [**OnPage.dev**](http://OnPage.dev), a free & open-source Chrome extension that makes web scraping visual and easy, no coding required.

# 🚀 Key Features

* **Point-and-Click Selection**: Hover over elements to select exactly what you want.
* **Smart Auto-Scroll**: Automatically capture all content, even lazy-loaded pages.
* **Export Anywhere**: Save scraped data to CSV or JSON.
* **Self-Hosted or Cloud**: Run fully on your own machine with a Node.js backend, or use our hosted version.
* **Privacy First**: Keep your data safe, everything is open source.

🔗 **Try it here:** [onpage.dev](https://onpage.dev)
💻 **Source & Issues:** [GitHub Repo](https://github.com/OnPage-Scraper/OnPage-Scraper)

I’d love feedback, suggestions, or contributions, feature requests, improvements, and bug reports are all welcome!

⚖️ **Reminder:** Scrape responsibly and respect site terms of service.

https://redd.it/1nieg27
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We must be united and move forward in a more planned way

Restrictions and monopolies in the software world are increasing day by day, android is becoming a more covered structure on phones, iosun is already obvious, crhomium is blocking more and more features every day and we are becoming less free day by day. Thanks to artificial intelligences, they get more personal data about us than they have ever obtained before. We must somehow organise and ensure that a person can solve all the digital transactions that a person does at work and school from getting up in the morning until going to bed in the evening with open source applications and solutions, we must act organised in this, we must use the qualified people we have as well as possible, there are big companies with every opportunity in front of us, I hope a dystopian future does not await us.

https://redd.it/1niel4v
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RecipeFlow

Hello everyone! I’ve started an open-source project called Recipe Flow. It’s a React-based tool that explores a different way of sharing recipes. Traditional formats like text or video don’t always work well for everyone, and sometimes the way information is presented makes all the difference. Recipe Flow lets you create, follow and share recipes as interactive node graphs, a format that might feel much easier and more intuitive for a certain audience. The node graph can be then converted into plain text

Repo:

[https://github.com/teidenzero/recipe\_flow](https://github.com/teidenzero/recipe_flow)

Try it here (interactive demo):

[https://teidenzero.github.io/recipe\_flow/](https://teidenzero.github.io/recipe_flow/)

Overview doc:

[https://github.com/teidenzero/recipe\_flow/blob/main/docs/Overview.md](https://github.com/teidenzero/recipe_flow/blob/main/docs/Overview.md)

Current features:

* Visual recipe building with a drag-and-drop flow editor
* Node types for ingredients, steps, and outputs
* Interactive GUI for connecting nodes and editing properties
* Recipe validation for missing inputs, invalid links, and cycles
* Import/Export recipes as JSON
* Nutrition lookup (powered by Open Food Facts) for ingredient macros
* Built-in smoke tests that exercise the core graph utilities

I tried to make it easy to extend so that whoever wants to contribute can give it a crack with some custom module.

The scope of the project is not yet fully defined but I'd like for people to take a look and let me know what you think.

Thank you

https://redd.it/1nifyh9
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Help us pick an open-source product to build in 12 months - tell us your real pain points

Small CS team at the university with a full year for a school project (which needs to be released as open source) wants to build and ship one useful, privacy-respecting open-source product. We’ll work in public, maintain it after 1.0, and we’re looking for your real, recurring pain to solve.

https://redd.it/1niihr8
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I'm a product designer and i want to collaborate with other devs

Hello everyone!

I've been getting into product design for the past two years. I see a lot of devs with cool projects but it's too much work to design, develope, and then market and test their products properly without funding. so I want to collaborate on projects and hopefully offer some insight and help you

I’m especially interested in teaming up on something valuable, and maybe even shaping it into something we could grow or monetize down the road. If anyone’s working on a project that could use some design, I’d be excited to chat and see where it goes.

feel free to DM me or email me at yaserbustati@gmail.com if you prefer
thanks!

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WhoAmI.tech has a new update! Hopefully it helps some of you!!

Hi everyone,

So a while back I made a post about WhoAmI, a free application that I built for people in tech to build a web presence. It's a sort of mix between LinkTree and LinkedIn !

Long story short, so many people signed up and were really positive in the comments and it meant so much to me that I had to keep working on it.

But feelings aside, now there's a new update with some cool features I think you'll enjoy:

- RSS Feed

Every profile now has an RSS feed that users can subscribe to. You can see it on my profile at https://whoami.tech/cfds on the posts section.

- Newsletter feature

Every public post you create now has a newsletter subnoscription form as you can see here https://whoami.tech/cfds/posts/working-on-whoami-s-profile-page (you can take the chance to subscribe to my newsletter if you want :P )

When the user subscribes, they receive a confirmation email and once confirmed, the subnoscription is active. The profile owner you subscribed too can see their number of subnoscriptions on the dashboard.

Now, once they create a post they have a checkbox to send to the newsletter or not, and if they do, everyone in it receives the new post per email !!

Of course there's a link available to unsubscribee as well :).
____

Again the app is free for everyone to USE, I might at some point implement a Buy Me a Coffee button for whoever wants to help cover the cost of the VPS and Domain (like $5) :D, but hopefully it helps some of you !!! I've been so excited and thank you for making me feel special and supporting this project :D.

https://github.com/s1lvax/whoami

https://whoami.tech

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(de)centralized in trust or black box

Most AI demos look slick until you try to run them for real. When it’s your own data and your own infrastructure, verifying what an AI agent did becomes crucial. We’ve been exploring an open‑source stack that connects AI models with a decentralised data layer. The idea is: you send in an intent and get a result you can prove end‑to‑end. Everything runs on open‑source components (including the models when possible), and data stays yours, encrypted.

On paper that sounds neat; in practice, it raises some tricky questions. How do you guarantee privacy and still trust the results? Where do you draw the line between building a framework that others can compose and a finished tool someone can pick up and use? And what does verifiability even look like in the context of LLM agents?

I’m curious how others in the open‑source community are thinking about this. Have you tried combining AI with sovereign or decentralised systems? Do you lean towards building infrastructure or user‑facing apps? How do you approach auditing or proving what an AI agent has done? Sharing our experience here to start a conversation and see what patterns or pitfalls others have found.

https://redd.it/1niop03
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I built an open source alternative to piano learning tools
https://github.com/Tbence132545/Melodigram

https://redd.it/1ninpt8
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Vendure in 100 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atu89yudOxA

https://redd.it/1niqs81
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An open source caffeine-quitting app
https://github.com/drg101/decaf

https://redd.it/1niszm5
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Major Update: Tally.so n8n Community Node v1.2.0 Released

🚀 Just released a major update to the Tally.so n8n community node!

Highlights:
- Copy entire forms across different Tally accounts in one workflow (Get Form → Create Form).
- New field operations (add, update, delete, rollback).
- Safety features like Dry-Run preview + backup JSON for safer automation.

If you’re using n8n + Tally.so for workflows, this should save a lot of time. Feedback welcome!


https://redd.it/1niuhof
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Offline EPC/SEPA QR Code Generator (static web app)

I built a tiny utility for anyone who needs EPC/SEPA payment QR codes without trusting an online service. Everything lives from a single HTML file—open index.html or try the GitHub Pages build—and it runs entirely offline in your browser. You get live IBAN validation with readable spacing, mutually exclusive payment reference or RF structured reference fields, optional purpose code/BIC/note inputs, and a running byte counter to keep you under the 331-byte EPC payload cap. Once you’re happy with the payload you can export a crisp QR as PNG, JPG, or SVG. There’s also a dark/light theme, tooltips, example data, and built-in localization for all EU-SEPA countries.
Demo: https://quasistatic-setup.github.io/EPC-QR-Code-Offline-Generator/
Source: https://github.com/quasistatic-setup/EPC-QR-Code-Offline-Generator
I’d love feedback—edge cases to cover, translation contributions, or UX tweaks you’d like to see.

https://redd.it/1nit4ri
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Are all Tuta & Proton apps open source?
https://x.com/TutaPrivacy/status/1967240420108157079

https://redd.it/1nimdk4
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Advice: Etiquette for supporting a 'demanding' person in an open-source project

There's a piece of open-source software I use as a hobby, which has a relatively small community of fairly dedicated users. This software is written in C++ and has an embedded JavaScript interpreter, which allows users to write JavaScript mods/noscripts to provide additional functionality without modifying the C++ source.

I've written multiple mods for it in JavaScript and have shared my mods with the community. There's another user who has talked to me repeatedly with issue reports & feature requests for my mods, which is fine. However, one thing he requested some time ago is basically a whole functional NNTP client (newsgroup reader)) in JavaScript. Mind you, it's text-based, so it doesn't have a GUI. I've actually completed a large bulk of it; I think one major thing remaining is to have it clean up message text, which may have text in quoted printable format.

I think the reason he has asked me to write this for him is, as he has said, he "can't be bothered" to really learn JavaScript; it sounds like he's unwilling to learn JavaScript and wants others to do a lot of the work for him in creating these JavaScript mods he wants. It sounds like he has done programming in the past, so I don't think he's entirely unfamiliar with software development.

Normally, the JavaScript mods I write for this project are things I also use. However, I don't plan to use this newsgroup reader myself. While I like developing software, for a hobby project, I'm not quite as interested in developing something I'm not going to use personally. This would all be for him. Sometimes I've thought about telling him he can take what I have and finish it himself - I think he'd be in a good position to do that; Since he's the one who will be using it, he will be able to identify any issues quickly, and then he can fix them. Is that reasonable?

Another reason I'd like to just give it to him is because he can also sometimes be a bit condescending in the way he talks to people like me for support. I also feel like he can be a bit demanding. He frequently requests updates, which can feel tiring (though many of which are bugs he has identified, which is good). In the past 3-4 years or so, I'd guess about 95% of the change requests for my JavaScript mods for this project have been from him. I don't really feel like supporting something that I'm not even going to be using.

https://redd.it/1niymp7
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