8 Open-source Projects to Help Your Business Run Efficiently

There are lots of open-source projects which are just 🤯. From productivity tools to B2B applications, open-source projects are there for you. Let's see some open-source projects worth using. You may find that some of these projects could help you completely replace your paid software 👀.

1. Chatwoot

Chatwoot is an open-source alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, HubSpot, Salesforce Service Cloud. Not just live chat, it has support for multiple channels like Email, Facebook page, Twitter handle, WhatsApp etc.

Features:

• Shared inbox - Collaborate with your team easily with a shared inbox means you can assign different tasks from the same inbox to different agents
• Live chat - Add a live chat widget to your website and improve your customer experience
• Channels - Support for multiple channels like Email, WhatsApp, Twitter, Twilio, Facebook, Instagram, Line. Also, you access all the channels from one place, no need to jump between channels
• Automations - Automate repetitive tasks
• Chatbots - Build chatbots with Dialogflow or Rasa and connect to your inbox
• Mobile apps(IOS & Android) - Engage with customers instantly from anywhere with Chatwoots' IOS and Android apps
• Integrations - Integration options are available for Slack, WordPress, Dialogflow and Rasa

2. Amplication

Amplication is a low-code/no-code tool. Generate your NodeJs application along with a beautiful React admin panel within minutes. Your NodeJs app is just a few clicks away.

Features:

• React Admin-UI generated with react-admin
• NodeJs app with Postgres database
• GraphQL and RESTAPI
• Sync with GitHub or download code as a zip file
• Sandbox environment to develop and test your app without setting it up locally
• Docker support to deploy to the cloud

3. Docz

Docz is a documentation tool based on MDX. It is a simple and easy alternative to Docusaurus. Don't waste time building a documentation website. Use Docz to quickly document your project.

Features:

• Powered by Gatsby - Fast development experience and speed build times
• Zero configuration
• Customize however you want
• Based on MDX
• Plugins
• Typescript support

4. Partytown

Partytown is a lazy-loaded library to help relocate resource-intensive scripts into a web worker, and off of the main thread. Its goal is to help speed up sites by dedicating the main thread to your code and offloading third-party scripts to a web worker.

If you have so many third-party scripts like Google Tag Manager, Live chat widget, A/B testing, and trackers, it can make your website load slowly, hence effects performance. With Partytown, you can load your code from the main thread and third-party scripts in a web worker.

Features:

• Integration support for Astro, Gatsby, HTML, NextJS, Nuxt, React, Remix, Hydrogen (Shopify)
• Support for various third-party scripts

5. Typesense

Does your product need a superfast, easy-to-integrate search engine? Typesense is for you. Typesense is an open-source search engine, an alternative to Agolia and Elasticsearch.

Features:

• Typo tolerance
• Easy to set up, operate and scale
• Fast
• Dynamically sort results based on a particular field at query time
• Faceting and Filtering
• Group similar results together
• Search across multiple collections in a single HTTP request

6. BackdropCMS

Backdrop is a free and open-source Content Management System built on top of Drupal. Build highly customizable websites for free. With Backdrop, you can build anything from a personal blog site to an e-commerce website.

Features:

• Addons
• Modules
• Different themes
• Layout templates

7. Hoppscotch

HoppScotch is an open-source alternative to Postman.

Features:

• Lightweight
• Fast
• Themes
• PWA
• GraphQL and REST API
• All the features postman offers

8. NocoDB

NocoDB is an open-source alternative to Airtable. Convert any database into a smart spreadsheet. Cool #nocode tool 😎.

⚠️ Don't forget to leave a ⭐ on Github to these amazing projects.

There are thousands of amazing open-source projects available. I shared some of them that I found interesting.