Drop your open-source tool.
Discover, share, and discuss open-source software — a curated home for the tools developers actually use. Free, open, and un-gatekept.
OSSDrop is a curated home for open-source tools — a community-maintained place to discover, share, and discuss developer tools, self-hosted apps, and libraries. Every entry is a real open-source project: a public repository, an OSI-approved license, and an honest one-line description. Star counts and trending update automatically, and no placement is ever paid.
- ossdrop.com — the website (live): browse the curated directory ranked by community votes and live GitHub stars, discuss in the forum, and submit your own tool in one click.
- OSSDrop/OSSDrop — the curated GitHub list: live stars, trending drops, fourteen categories. Built something? Drop it in.
- r/OSSDrop — post, discuss, and discover in a neutral community space.
- Fork OSSDrop/OSSDrop
- Add one JSON entry to
data/tools.json(honest one-line description) - Open a PR — stars, icon, and trending are computed automatically.
Or submit in one click at ossdrop.com. Open source only. No hype, no dead links, no pay-to-play. See the contributing guide.
Is OSSDrop a Product Hunt alternative for open source? People often describe it that way — it's a place to discover new open-source software and give the good projects votes and discussion. The difference: OSSDrop lists only projects with a public repository and an OSI-approved open-source license, and listing is always free.
What kinds of tools are on OSSDrop? Developer tools and CLIs, AI and coding agents, web frameworks and APIs, data and databases, DevOps and self-hosted software, security and privacy, productivity, notes and knowledge, communication, automation, and more — fourteen categories.
Is it free? Can rankings be bought? Yes, it's free. Rankings can't be bought — tools are sorted by community votes and live GitHub stars.