Top #hacktoberfest Tools & Software

RustPython

github

A Python Interpreter written in Rust

qwik

github

Instant-loading web apps, without effort

gitui

github

Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀

vector

github

A high-performance observability data pipeline.

gofr

github

An opinionated GoLang framework for accelerated microservice development. Built in support for databases and observability.

eza

github

A modern alternative to ls

matomo

github

Empowering People Ethically 🚀 — Matomo is hiring! Join us → https://matomo.org/jobs Matomo is the leading open-source alternative to Google Analytics, giving you complete control and built-in privacy. Easily collect, visualise, and analyse data from websites & apps. Star us on GitHub ⭐️ – Pull Requests welcome!

personal-security-checklist

github

🔒 A compiled checklist of 300+ tips for protecting digital security and privacy in 2026

automa

github

A browser extension for automating your browser by connecting blocks

RustScan

github

🤖 The Modern Port Scanner 🤖

taipy

github

Turns Data and AI algorithms into production-ready web applications in no time.

DB-GPT

github

open-source agentic AI data assistant for the next generation of AI + Data products.

migrate

github

Database migrations. CLI and Golang library.

telegraf

github

Agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data.

pouchdb

github

:kangaroo: - PouchDB is a pocket-sized database.

superfile

github

Pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager

hydra

github

Internet-scale OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect and OAuth2.1 provider that integrates with your user management through headless APIs. Solve OIDC/OAuth2 user cases over night. Consume as a service on Ory Network or self-host. Trusted by OpenAI and many others for scale and security. Written in Go.

kubesphere

github

The container platform tailored for Kubernetes multi-cloud, datacenter, and edge management ⎈ 🖥 ☁️

ConvertX

github

💾 Self-hosted online file converter. Supports 1000+ formats ⚙️

wtf

github

The personal information dashboard for your terminal

katana

github

A next-generation crawling and spidering framework.

awx

github

AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

zaproxy

github

The ZAP by Checkmarx Core project

beets

github

music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger