Khushi Doshi

Adobe charges $239 a year for Lightroom and then uses your photos to train their AI models by default. An 18-year-old apprentice in Switzerland rebuilt the entire thing solo in 8 months and released it under AGPL. It's called RapidRAW. A GPU-accelerated, non-destructive RAW editor written in Rust and WGSL that runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux. AI subject, sky, and foreground masking. Generative edits via ComfyUI. Panorama stitcher. Lens correction. Under 20MB. 7K stars. 100% Opensource. github.com/CyberTimon/Rap…

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Repo link: github.com/iv-org/invidio…

I was paying for YouTube Premium just to get rid of ads. Then I found a 7-year-old open source project that does the same thing without an account, without a subscription, and without Google logging a single video i watch. It's called Invidious. Pick a public instance and start watching immediately, or spin up your own server in one Docker command. Subscriptions, notifications, watch history, light and dark themes, audio-only mode, Reddit comments under videos. Everything Premium gives you, free. 20.7K stars. AGPL-3.0. 100% Opensource.

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Say goodbye to 1Password, Dashlane, and LastPass. Someone rewrote the entire Bitwarden server in Rust and open sourced it for $0. It works with every official Bitwarden app on every device. It's called Vaultwarden. Here's the trick that makes it work: Every Bitwarden client the iOS app, the Android app, the Chrome extension, the desktop app talks to a server through an open API. Bitwarden publishes that API because their code is open source. Vaultwarden implements the exact same API. From the perspective of every app on every device, there is zero difference between hitting the official Bitwarden server and hitting your own Vaultwarden instance. You spin it up on any $5 VPS. Point your Bitwarden apps at your server URL. Every password, every secure note, every 2FA code syncs across all your devices through infrastructure you own. - Full AES-256 end-to-end encryption. Same as the paid product. - All premium features unlocked. File attachments, vault health reports, hardware 2FA keys. Free. - Multi-user support built in. Run it for your family or your whole team. - Runs on 256MB RAM. A $5 server handles dozens of users without blinking. - One Docker command. Your vault is live in under 10 minutes. - Zero subscription. Zero per-seat fee. Zero trust required. The commercial password manager business model is simple. Take open source encryption. Wrap it in a sync server. Charge per seat forever. Vaultwarden is the sync server. The apps are free. The encryption is open. You just needed somewhere to run it. 60K stars. 100% Opensource - github.com/dani-garcia/va…

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R.I.P NordVPN, ExpressVPN, and Surfshark. Someone open sourced the VPN daemon that powers all of them for $0. And it's been running in production for 20+ years. It's called OpenVPN. Here's what most people don't know: Every commercial VPN you've ever paid for is just a pretty interface on top of open source software anyone can run. OpenVPN is the actual engine. Military-grade AES-256 encryption. The same tunneling protocol enterprise networks and governments use to move sensitive data. You don't rent it. You own it. → Run it on any $5/month VPS and you have a private VPN server nobody controls but you → Works on Linux, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and routers → No logs. No company collecting your browsing data. No trust required. → Configure it in 15 minutes with one script → Zero third parties between you and the internet The commercial VPN business model is simple. Take open source software. Wrap it in an app. Charge you $13/month forever. OpenVPN is what they're charging you for. 13.9K stars. 100% Opensource. github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn Self hosted: openvpn.net/access-server/

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Say goodbye to YouTube ads. FreeTube is a desktop YouTube player that lets you watch any video without a single ad, without an account, and without Google tracking a single thing you do. The way it works is genius. It uses its own built-in extractor to pull video data, so YouTube can still serve you the content but cannot identify you. No cookies. No JavaScript fingerprinting. No personalized ad profile being quietly built in the background. Two extractor options. Built-in or Invidious. Pick whichever you trust. This is 100% opensource. github.com/FreeTubeApp/Fr… - freetubeapp.io

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R.I.P Dropbox, iCloud, and OneDrive subscriptions. Someone open-sourced a sync tool that replaces all three for $0. And no company can shut it down. It's called Syncthing. Here's how it works: Every cloud storage company on earth routes your files through their own servers. That's not a technical requirement. That's a business model. Syncthing skips the server entirely. → Your devices connect directly to each other → Every transfer is TLS encrypted with perfect forward secrecy → Every device is authenticated by a cryptographic certificate → Nothing moves without your explicit permission → Works on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, FreeBSD No account. No subscription. No company holding a copy of your files. Dropbox can raise prices. iCloud can change its terms. Google Drive can shut down tomorrow. Syncthing runs on your own machines. There's no server to breach. No company to pressure. No subscription to cancel. One install. Your devices. Your files. Your rules. 100% Opensource. syncthing.net

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Check it here: github.com/gorhill/uBlock

uBlock Origin is pure evil ☠️ It steals revenue from billion dollar companies like Google and Meta by blocking the ads they spent years engineering to follow you around the internet. It erases the tracking pixels that let retailers retarget you after you leave their site. It kills the analytics scripts that measure how long you hovered over a product before closing the tab. It also blocks the fingerprinting code that identifies your device even when you clear your cookies. → Robs advertisers of behavioral data they legally purchased your attention to collect → Starves data brokers by cutting the tracking scripts they depend on for inventory → Makes you completely invisible to retargeting systems across the entire open web → Costs the ad industry an estimated billions in blocked impressions every single year Google is removing it from Chrome because it works too well. 64.7K developers starred it anyway. GPL-3.0 License. 100% Opensource. Link in comments... do not use it.

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RIP ElevenLabs. A Korean lab just open-sourced a TTS model that runs 167x faster than real-time on a MacBook. No cloud. No API key. No latency. It's called Supertonic. 66M parameters. ONNX Runtime under the hood. The numbers nobody believed at first: → 1263 chars/sec on M4 Pro CPU → 12,164 chars/sec on RTX 4090 → 2509 chars/sec in a browser tab via WebGPU → ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 caps at 287 chars/sec → OpenAI TTS-1 caps at 82 → Gemini 2.5 Flash caps at 24 A laptop CPU running this is 4x faster than ElevenLabs over an API call. It runs on Raspberry Pi. It runs on e-readers in airplane mode. It runs in your browser with zero data leaving the machine. 5 languages supported. 11 runtimes shipped in the repo, including Python, Rust, Swift, iOS, and Flutter. I cannot find a single reason to keep paying for cloud TTS in 2026. What would you stop paying for if you saw this benchmark a year ago? 5.7K stars. MIT License. 100% Opensource. github.com/supertone-inc/…

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Wow... AI agents can now hire other AI agents. Clawith just dropped and it lets agents create new skills, install new tools, and onboard each other into the team. → Skill Creator lets agents write skills for themselves or colleagues → Resource Discovery searches Smithery and ModelScope for new MCP servers → One-click MCP import turns discovered servers into platform tools → Relationship graph maps human and AI colleagues → Heartbeat checks keep agents context-aware This is the moment AI stopped being software and started being staff. 100% Opensource. Apache 2.0 License. Repo: github.com/dataelement/Cl…