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code-server

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Caddy

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Superset

Modern data exploration and visualization platform.

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Strapi

Headless CMS that lets developers build content APIs fast while giving content creators a friendly editing interface.

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revealjs

Framework for easily creating beautiful presentations using HTML.

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Vaultwarden

Lightweight Bitwarden server API implementation written in Rust.

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AnythingLLM

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Actively maintained ★ 67.9k MIT 🐳 Docker~$40/mo

Traefik

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Memos

Knowledge base that works with a SQLite db file.

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penpot

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