GitHub 2025-08-29 Weekly Trending Projects

AIRI is a hybrid Web/local self-hosted virtual character platform focused on real-time voice, game interaction, and multi-platform deployment—suited for developers and creators seeking controllable, customizable virtual streamers and digital companions.

Provides a browsable collection of public chatbot system prompts for researchers and prompt engineers to compare and analyze; however, absence of a declared license and potential sensitive source texts require legal, privacy, and maintenance risk assessment before reuse.

Drawnix is an open-source, Plait-based all-in-one whiteboard offering mind maps, flowcharts and freehand drawing with a plugin-driven architecture for extensibility; suitable for self-hosting teams and developers for quick integration and customization. However, limited contributors and no official releases warrant extra evaluation for production and long-term maintenance.

WinApps runs a Windows VM on the Linux host and uses FreeRDP to render Windows applications as integrated windows and file-manager-aware shortcuts in GNOME/KDE, enabling Linux users to access proprietary Windows apps like Office or Adobe without dual-booting.

DeepCode is a multi-agent automated coding platform that integrates Paper2Code, Text2Web and Text2Backend workflows to accelerate prototyping, code synthesis and deployment.

Sim is an open-source AI agent workflow builder for engineering teams, offering a visual interface, local model support, and pgvector vector storage to enable rapid self-hosted deployment and tool integration.

GoogleTest is a widely trusted C++ unit testing and mocking framework offering rich assertions, parameterization and parallel test features—suitable for medium to large projects requiring a mature, cross-platform testing solution; note the C++17 requirement and potential compatibility implications from forthcoming dependency changes.

Leantime is a goal-centered, self-hostable open-source project management platform combining kanban, Gantt, time tracking and knowledge base to lower planning and collaboration barriers for non-project managers.

SurfSense is a self-hostable private research agent that integrates search engines, collaboration tools and local LLMs—designed for teams requiring privacy and customization for advanced retrieval, RAG and cited QA.

Budibase is an open-source low-code platform built with Svelte/TypeScript that focuses on self-hostable single-page business applications. It provides multi-database integrations, visual components and automation workflows to reduce delivery effort for forms, portals and approval workflows.

Puck is an embeddable, modular visual editor for React that supports custom components and drag-and-drop page building, aimed at teams needing in-app WYSIWYG editing and page construction while retaining full data control.

Qlib provides an end-to-end platform from quant research to production, combining a model zoo, point-in-time database and RD-Agent automation; suited for institutional quant R&D teams with data and ML expertise.

Uptime Kuma is a Vue/WebSocket-based self-hosted uptime monitor offering multi-protocol checks, rich notifications and status pages, easy to deploy via Docker or Node for small teams and individual operators.

A collection of tools for Linux in a user-friendly way.

Firecrawl crawls entire websites and converts them into LLM-ready Markdown or structured data for RAG, knowledge-base ingestion, and doc automation; it offers rich integrations, but self-hosting maturity and the AGPL license are key trade-offs to consider.