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9 Open Source Gems To Become The Ultimate Developer 🔥

Anthony Max on July 02, 2025

TL;DR Today, there are many interesting projects that are not so popular, but which have good potential to help you become a good specia...

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Thomas Bnt • Jul 3 '25

That a good post!

Anthony Max • Jul 3 '25

Thanks!

𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚒 • Jul 3 '25

No Resume Matcher? 😥
Is it not a gem 💎?

Kənan Rəcəbli • Jul 8 '25

it's impossible to mention every single useful tool in one post
the purpose of the post is to inform us about tools we don't know, it's weird that u r looking for mentioning of tools u already know 🙂

Alois Sečkár • Jul 3 '25 • Edited

Vue Vapor is still an experimental feature and VuePress is effectively dead in favor of VitePress.

Anthony Max • Jul 3 '25

I will add Vue Vapor, simply because I am familiar with their project, I know that it has a future

Luis Faria • Jul 3 '25

Hey Anthony, awesome list!!

I used Turbopack (from Vercel, part of Turborepo) during a coding challenge a while back. It was super fast and definitely opened my eyes to how much time a good build system can save.

Thanks for sharing these hidden gems, I’ll definitely check out HMPL and a few others from your list! Keep ‘em coming. 🙌

Anthony Max • Jul 3 '25

Thanks!

Nawab Kumar Sarraf • Jul 2 '25

Great list! Service for readme is interesting

Anthony Max • Jul 2 '25

Thanks! I think too

Samir Tahiri • Jul 3 '25

Great list bro!

Anthony Max • Jul 3 '25

Thanks!

Dotallio • Jul 3 '25

Love this list! Dotallio flies under the radar too and totally changed how I whip up docs, dbs, and internal tools with AI. Did you try it yet?

Olumide Adekolu • Jul 3 '25

This article is just too goated - mentioned my two babies (HMPL and Vapour)🥹🥹

Umer Jahangir • Jul 4 '25

Really impressive gem's.

Anthony Max • Jul 4 '25

100%

gunjangidwani • Jul 3 '25

I liked the 9 Readme.so !!
Thanks for sharing

Anthony Max • Jul 3 '25 • Edited

Me too. No problem!

Carlos Eduardo de Andrade Silva • Jul 7 '25

The last one is just amazing, absolutelly sure i'm gona use this. Congrats!

Luca Ottaviano • Jul 7 '25 • Edited

Didn't know Readme.so, really Interesting!

Anthony Max • Jul 2 '25

I felt like making another list. I just saw a couple of new projects from there and decided to tell you about them.

Anthony Max • Jul 3 '25

By the way, maybe there is someone who can post HMPL in Ycombinator with a pumped up account in HN? It would be really cool, it would help us!

Robbie Cahill • Jul 4 '25

Don't forget Tunnelmole, the open source tunnelling tool that can give you a public URL for your app without the need for you to deploy anywhere, you can run your server at home.

tunnelmole.com/

nb: i'm the developer