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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/ConsistentCan4633 on 2025-11-01 17:01:50+00:00.
github.com/mustbeperfect/definitive-opensource
I built this list is to consolidate the “best” open source projects in a scalable manner - and by best I mean well-maintained and relatively popular. The problem I found with most other lists is that they included many abandoned projects, partly because of the smaller projects they also included. As someone who was trying to replace everything proprietary with open source, this clutter really frustrated me.
Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against small projects, but I wanted a list of projects that had momentum behind them and weren’t just some selfhosted web app someone made in a day, even if technically, it had a completed feature set.
I’ve tried to accomplish this by automating all of the tedious parts of maintaining a list. Python scripts generate the README, and maintenance scripts checks for formatting errors in the JSON files, update stats from the Github api, and also check whether projects are potentially abandoned based on last commit date or if they were archived.
These results are outputted to md files with humans having the final say for whether projects are added or removed.
I’m very happy with where this last has gotten as I feel it’s very comprehensive now. Feedback and contributions are appreciated as this list is, in itself, open source!