Most of the software in our lives is built to charge us for things that should not cost money. We cannot fix that for the whole industry, but we can stop adding to it, so when we build something useful we put it on GitHub for free.
Before I built software for a living, I spent years as a creative and design artist. I made paintings, prints, and visual work that I gave away, not because the work was worth less, but because the value of art was never supposed to be the only reason it existed.
Open source is the same instinct in a different medium. So much of what gets called software today exists to extract money from people who depend on it, with subscriptions stacked on subscriptions and paywalls in front of features that should have been included.
We cannot do much to change how the broader industry operates, but we can put the tools we build where anyone can use them without paying, signing up, or being sold something on the way out. If it helps you, take it. If you want to make it better, the code is on GitHub.
Samuel Malkasian, founder of CarpathianWe open source the tools we wished existed when we needed them, and the ones we use ourselves every day. Every project here started as a problem we had, and we opened it because there was no good reason to lock it behind a paywall.
Free to clone, use, fork, and ship inside whatever you are building. The entire working tool sits in a public repository from the day it is published.
MIT, on GitHub. Fork it, change it, ship it inside your own product, and sell what you build with it. No extra clauses, and no conditions bolted onto the end.
These projects are part of daily work at Carpathian, so the engineers relying on them are the ones pushing updates, reviewing pull requests, and answering issues.
As new tools get built they show up here, available to use, fork, or contribute to.
Open source harness for distributing AI workloads.
It connects remote, local, and region-separated models over one secure link, so a workload can be sent to whichever model should handle it instead of being pinned to the machine it started on.
Professional email signatures with no signup, no login, no payment.
Pick a template, fill in your details, copy, and paste into Gmail or Outlook. There is no account to make and no upsell at the end, and the whole tool runs in your browser.
A hand-coded INT8 transformer inference engine, with no framework and no wrapper.
A byte-level language model inference engine written in C and architecture-specific assembly. Every kernel is custom and every internal activation is tap-able at no runtime cost, and it ships with a dashboard for watching the model work while it generates.
A lightweight WireGuard client for systems the official app does not reach.
A small Python utility and terminal interface wrapping the WireGuard tools on macOS and Windows. Drop a config in, pick it from a list, and connect. Built for machines that cannot run the official client.
The world has enough software designed to charge you. We are interested in the rest.
Star a project, open an issue, or send a pull request. If you have an idea for something we should build and give away, tell us about it.