awesome-side-quests

A loosely organized list of GitHub repos I starred because they looked useful, clever, weird, or likely to become relevant in some unexpected future. Broad interests, light curation, and just enough order to keep the interesting bits from escaping.
https://github.com/maxatwork/awesome-side-quests

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AI & LLM
- Agents & Orchestration
  - Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT
  - langflow-ai/langflow - code visual builder for LLM workflows and agents — drag, connect, deploy
  - obra/superpowers
  - firecrawl/firecrawl - ready data — scraping, crawling, and structured extraction as a service
  - browser-use/browser-use
  - anthropics/claude-code
  - lobehub/lobehub - in-one AI workspace with agent marketplace, plugin system, and multi-model chat
  - OpenBB-finance/OpenBB - source financial data platform built for analysts, quants, and AI agents — Bloomberg alternative
  - crewAIInc/crewAI - playing multi-agent framework — assign tasks to AI "crew members" who collaborate autonomously
  - TauricResearch/TradingAgents - agent LLM system for financial trading — multiple specialized agents debate and decide together
  - CherryHQ/cherry-studio - in-one
  - hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code
  - ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp
  - CopilotKit/CopilotKit - app AI copilots — adds AI-native UI patterns to any React app
  - github/awesome-copilot - contributed instructions, agents, and configurations for GitHub Copilot — the unofficial cookbook
  - vercel/ai
  - mastra-ai/mastra - structured, production-minded, modern DX
  - iOfficeAI/AionUi
  - Alibaba-NLP/DeepResearch - source deep research agent — iterative web research with planning and synthesis
  - langchain-ai/deepagents - based agent harness with planning tools, filesystem access, and web browsing
  - microsoft/agent-lightning
  - NousResearch/hermes-agent
  - getmaxun/maxun - code web scraping platform — turn any website into structured data with visual point-and-click automation
  - iii-hq/iii
  - HKUDS/DeepCode - to-code, text-to-web, and text-to-backend generation
  - alibaba/page-agent - page JavaScript GUI agent — control web interfaces with natural language from within the page itself
  - vxcontrol/pentagi - off security research at agent scale
  - manaflow-ai/cmux - based macOS terminal with vertical tabs and agent-specific notification management
  - tambo-ai/tambo
  - danielmiessler/Personal_AI_Infrastructure - augmented personal productivity
  - The-Pocket/PocketFlow - line LLM framework — so minimal it fits in a README, yet capable enough to build real agents
  - rowboatlabs/rowboat - source AI coworker with persistent memory — multi-agent collaboration with context retention
  - langchain-ai/open-swe - source async coding agent from LangChain — tackles software engineering tasks autonomously
  - openai/openai-realtime-agents
  - 11cafe/jaaz - source multimodal creative assistant — Canva meets Manus for image-first creative workflows
  - magnitudedev/browser-agent - first browser agent — uses screenshots to understand and interact with any web UI
  - memgraph/memgraph - source graph database tuned for real-time dynamic analytics — fast, Cypher-compatible, embeddable
  - openai/openai-agents-js - agent framework for JS — voice agents, tool use, handoffs built-in
  - ai-christianson/RA.Aid - to-end
  - adaline/gateway - grade LLM gateway with a unified interface across all major providers — no vendor lock-in
  - Code-and-Sorts/awesome-copilot-agents - maintained best practices
  - David-patrick-chuks/Riona-AI-Agent
- LLM Apps & Interfaces
  - openclaw/openclaw - hostable AI assistant with a surprisingly memorable crustacean branding — run it anywhere
  - ollama/ollama
  - microsoft/markitdown
  - hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam - time face swap from a single photo — works live on your webcam feed
  - github/spec-kit - Driven Development, helping you write specs that AI agents can actually execute
  - vllm-project/vllm - to high-throughput LLM serving engine — PagedAttention, continuous batching, serious production scale
  - openinterpreter/open-interpreter
  - danielmiessler/Fabric
  - chatboxai/chatbox
  - asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks
  - google/langextract - powered structured extraction from unstructured text that keeps precise source grounding
  - anthropics/prompt-eng-interactive-tutorial - on prompt engineering tutorial — the canonical place to learn how to talk to Claude
  - TabbyML/tabby - hosted AI coding assistant you can run on your own GPU — GitHub Copilot but yours
  - onlook-dev/onlook
  - langfuse/langfuse - source LLM observability platform — tracing, evals, prompt management, and a playground in one place
  - vercel/chatbot - featured Next.js + AI SDK starter worth forking
  - p-e-w/heretic
  - ahmedkhaleel2004/gitdiagram
  - confident-ai/deepeval - test your prompts and RAG pipelines with real evaluation metrics
  - puckeditor/puck - hostable visual page builder built on React — bring your own components, own your data
  - Zackriya-Solutions/meetily - first meeting assistant with fast local Whisper transcription, diarization, and Ollama summaries
  - elie222/inbox-zero - source, self-hostable, integrates with Gmail
  - GoogleCloudPlatform/kubectl-ai
  - thewh1teagle/vibe - based transcription desktop app — drag in audio, get clean text, no cloud needed
  - microsoft/poml - step LLM workflows
  - ml-explore/mlx-lm
  - shcherbak-ai/contextgem - driven, with minimal boilerplate
  - nobodywho-ooo/nobodywho
  - inulute/simplexity-ai-app - built Electron desktop app for Perplexity-style AI search — open-source AI browsing
  - traceloop/openllmetry-js - based LLM observability for TypeScript — trace your AI calls just like regular infra
  - langfuse/langfuse-python - based or low-level tracing for any LLM app
  - langfuse/langfuse-js
- MCP & Tool Use
  - n8n-io/n8n - code workflow automation with native AI capabilities — self-hosted Zapier that you actually own
  - yamadashy/repomix - friendly file — essential for feeding codebases to LLMs
  - modelcontextprotocol/servers
  - modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk
  - modelcontextprotocol/inspector
  - homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp - compatible AI agent
  - MCP-UI-Org/mcp-ui
- ML & Training
  - f/prompts.chat - contributed, open-source, and still growing
  - rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch - like LLM from scratch in PyTorch — the best book/repo for understanding transformers deeply
  - lutzroeder/netron
  - HumanSignal/label-studio - type data labeling and annotation tool with a standardized output format — the open-source Label Studio
  - mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse - mechanics-inspired constraint propagation
  - nautechsystems/nautilus_trader - grade Rust-native trading engine with deterministic event-driven architecture
  - FunAudioLLM/CosyVoice - lingual voice generation model with full training, inference, and deployment stack
  - poloclub/transformer-explainer
  - OvidijusParsiunas/deep-chat
- RAG & Vector Search
  - open-webui/open-webui - hosted UI for Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs — feature-rich, polished, actively developed
  - Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps - ready LLM app examples with RAG, agents, and multiple model providers
  - Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm - in-one local AI workspace — chat with your documents, run agents, no setup friction
  - mem0ai/mem0
  - thedotmack/claude-mem - captures session activity and compresses it into persistent memory
  - khoj-ai/khoj - hostable AI second brain — chat with your notes, schedule automations, build custom agents
  - ItzCrazyKns/Vane - powered answering engine — Perplexity-style search but open-source and self-hostable
  - patchy631/ai-engineering-hub - depth tutorials on LLMs, RAG pipelines, and real-world AI agent deployments — solid learning resource
  - getzep/graphiti
  - VectifyAI/PageIndex - based RAG without vectors — uses document structure and LLM reasoning instead of embeddings
  - apify/crawlee - grade web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js — the serious crawler framework
  - Canner/WrenAI - to-analytics for any database
  - ConardLi/easy-dataset - tuning and RAG datasets from documents — streamlines the data prep pipeline
  - memvid/memvid
  - codexu/note-gen - platform AI note-taking app in Markdown — knowledge capture with LLM-powered organization
  - oramasearch/orama - text + vector + RAG search engine running in browser, server, or edge — zero infrastructure required
  - dataease/SQLBot
  - OpenBMB/UltraRAG - code MCP framework for building complex and innovative RAG pipelines — composable and extensible
  - morphik-org/morphik-core
  - Raudaschl/rag-fusion - query RAG with Reciprocal Rank Fusion — better retrieval through query expansion and rank merging
  - theaiautomators/claude-code-agentic-rag-series - stack Claude Code + RAG masterclass — educational reference material
Archived
- APIs & Protocols
  - chrishubert/whatsapp-api - web.js — turn the unofficial WhatsApp client into a proper REST API
- Build Tools & Bundlers
  - filamentgroup/grunt-criticalcss - the-fold CSS extraction, now archived
- C / C++ & Systems
  - Omegastick/pytorch-cpp-rl
- Data Science & Visualization
  - microsoft/MS-LaTTE - do task completion — research on contextual task scheduling
- DevOps & Deployment
  - ladjs/express-cdn
- Editors & Plugins
  - mauricelam/DockToRight - to-right usage — optimized layout for the panel on the side
- General Backend
  - expressjs/express-expose
- General Dev Tools
  - bem-archive/bem-tools
- General Game Dev
  - oivio/Advanced-Camera-Manager
- Godot
  - ratmarrow/GoldGdt - style character controller for Godot — Half-Life movement physics recreated in Godot, archived
- JS Libraries & Utilities
  - casperjs/casperjs - based browser automation and testing — fully archived, the predecessor to headless Chrome automation
  - angular/batarang
  - apache/nano
- ML & Training
  - mozilla/DeepSpeech - to-text engine — embedded, on-device, real-time capable; now archived but still referenced
- Python Tools
  - gvanrossum/patma
  - cloudant/bigcouch
- React Native & Expo
  - MuhammedKpln/react-native-chatty - featured high-performance chat UI for React Native — comprehensive messaging interface, now archived
- Svelte
  - ryanatkn/awesome-svelte-resources
- Testing & Debugging
  - jgonera/webspecter - style acceptance test framework for PhantomJS — precursor to modern headless browser testing
- UI Components & Styling
  - ubuwaits/css3-buttons
Backend & Infrastructure
- APIs & Protocols
  - devlikeapro/waha
- Auth & Security
  - better-auth/better-auth
  - trufflesecurity/trufflehog
- Bots & Messaging
  - WhiskeySockets/Baileys - based API for WhatsApp Web — the most capable unofficial WhatsApp client library
  - yagop/node-telegram-bot-api - tested, still widely used
  - wwebjs/whatsapp-web.js
- Databases & ORM
  - searxng/searxng - hosted metasearch engine — aggregate results from 70+ search services without being tracked
  - hcengineering/platform - in-one project management platform covering Linear, Jira, Slack, and Notion in one open-source tool
  - nocobase/nocobase - powered no-code platform — build business applications with a plugin-based architecture
  - electric-sql/pglite - process, with reactive bindings
  - tinode/chat - stack instant messaging platform — Swift iOS, Java Android, and JS clients backed by Go
  - dream-num/univer - stack framework for AI-native spreadsheets — build and edit spreadsheets on web and server
  - gristlabs/grist-core - hostable
  - porsager/postgres - featured PostgreSQL client for Node.js, Deno, and Bun — tagged template literals, zero dependencies
  - WiseLibs/better-sqlite3
  - usertour/usertour - source user onboarding platform — in-app product tours, checklists, and surveys
  - LadybugDB/ladybug
  - ydb-platform/ydb-js-sdk
- DevOps & Deployment
  - stan-smith/FossFLOW
  - Haxxnet/Compose-Examples - hosted FOSS and proprietary projects — the reference collection
  - kubernetes-sigs/headlamp - featured, user-friendly, extensible Kubernetes web UI — the dashboard that Kubernetes itself should have shipped
  - albersola/airo - scale hosting
- Email & Messaging
  - usesend/useSend - source Resend/SendGrid/Postmark alternative — own your transactional email sending infrastructure
- General Backend
  - rclone/rclone
  - serverless/serverless
  - 9001/copyparty
  - git-bug/git-bug - first bug tracker embedded in git — issues that live in your repository
  - tinylibs/tinypool
  - Dartanlla/OWS - scale multiplayer game backends
  - typicode/json-server
- Self-Hosted & Homelab
  - automatisch/automatisch - source Zapier alternative — build workflow automations without the cost or vendor lock-in
  - Billionmail/BillionMail - hosted open-source mail server and newsletter platform — own your email marketing infrastructure
  - blakeblackshear/frigate - time object detection for IP cameras — no cloud, no subscription, just your hardware
Data & Analytics
- Analytics & Feature Flags
  - apache/superset
  - duckdb/duckdb - process analytical SQL database — run complex queries on large datasets without a server
  - rybbit-io/rybbit - source, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative — 10x more intuitive, no cookies, self-hostable
  - growthbook/growthbook - source feature flags, A/B testing, and product analytics — the self-hosted LaunchDarkly and Amplitude
  - duckdb/duckdb-wasm
- Data Science & Visualization
  - facebookresearch/dinov2 - supervised vision transformer that produces exceptional general-purpose image features
  - apple/embedding-atlas
  - krumjahn/applehealth
Developer Tools
- Build Tools & Bundlers
  - developit/microbundle - config bundler for tiny npm modules — the simplest way to publish a library with CJS and ESM outputs
- CLI & Terminal
  - yt-dlp/yt-dlp - rich yt-dlp fork — faster, more formats, more sites, actively maintained successor to youtube-dl
  - zellij-org/zellij
  - sorin-ionescu/prezto - my-zsh
- Desktop App Frameworks
  - tauri-apps/awesome-tauri
  - MatsDK/TauRPC - to-end type safety between your Rust backend and TS frontend
- Document Processing
  - run-llama/liteparse - source document parser from LlamaIndex — clean text extraction for LLM pipelines
- Editors & Plugins
  - toeverything/AFFiNE - gen knowledge base merging Notion and Miro — planning, writing, and diagramming in one tool
  - microsoft/monaco-editor - based code editor powering VS Code — bring VS Code quality editing to any web app
  - LazyVim/LazyVim - included Neovim setup with sensible defaults
  - yetone/avante.nvim - assisted code changes with a sidebar diff workflow
  - folke/snacks.nvim
  - MeanderingProgrammer/render-markdown.nvim
  - rmagatti/auto-session
  - jscutlery/semver
  - mokevnin/dotfiles - centric terminal setup
- General Dev Tools
  - lerna/lerna - package JavaScript/TypeScript repositories — the monorepo pioneer
- Linting & Formatting
  - stoplightio/spectral - in OpenAPI support — enforce API design standards automatically
  - lingui/eslint-plugin
  - prettier/prettier
- Python Tools
  - ytdl-org/youtube-dl - line video downloader for YouTube and hundreds of other sites
  - home-assistant/core - source home automation that keeps local control — the hub for smart home tinkerers who care about privacy
  - commaai/openpilot
  - exo-explore/exo
  - tinygrad/tinygrad
  - microsoft/VibeVoice - source frontier voice AI system — speech understanding and generation
  - resemble-ai/chatterbox - of-the-art open-source TTS from Resemble AI — ultra-realistic voice synthesis, free to run
  - newren/git-filter-repo - branch that doesn't make you wait forever

Programming Languages

TypeScript 202 JavaScript 115 Python 66 C++ 35 GDScript 22 Rust 14 C# 11 Svelte 9 Go 8 Jupyter Notebook 8

awesome-side-quests

AI & LLM

Agents & Orchestration

LLM Apps & Interfaces

MCP & Tool Use

ML & Training

RAG & Vector Search

Archived

APIs & Protocols

Build Tools & Bundlers

C / C++ & Systems

Data Science & Visualization

DevOps & Deployment

Editors & Plugins

General Backend

General Dev Tools

General Game Dev

Godot

JS Libraries & Utilities

ML & Training

Python Tools

React Native & Expo

Svelte

Testing & Debugging

UI Components & Styling

Backend & Infrastructure

APIs & Protocols

Auth & Security

Bots & Messaging

Databases & ORM

DevOps & Deployment

Email & Messaging

General Backend

Self-Hosted & Homelab

Data & Analytics

Analytics & Feature Flags

Data Science & Visualization

Developer Tools

Build Tools & Bundlers

CLI & Terminal

Desktop App Frameworks

Document Processing

Editors & Plugins

General Dev Tools

Linting & Formatting

Python Tools