Open-source replacements for tools that should never have been rented.
Terminal-first, keyboard-driven, no account required.
The feed decides what you read. The library disappears when the licence lapses. The assistant runs under rules written by the company that sells it. None of that is a technical requirement — it is what happens when the tool belongs to a vendor and you are the tenant.
This org takes one of those tools at a time and builds the version you can own: read the source, run it offline, fork it if the maintainer goes quiet. Sometimes that means a new program; often it means a patch to one that already exists.
Small programs, one job each, MIT. Keyboard before mouse, terminal before tab, plain text before database, local-first before cloud.
| Project | What it does | Replaces |
|---|---|---|
| paperboy | RSS reader and podcast player as your browser's new tab | the algorithmic feed |
| paperboy-tui | The same reader in the terminal | a web app for reading text |
| oikos | Self-hosted media and retro-gaming server, driven from the TV or your phone | a stack of streaming subscriptions |
| Project | What it does | Replaces |
|---|---|---|
| Amphora (in development) | Browser on CEF where dark mode, ad blocking and vim keys are the browser, not extensions | Chrome plus a pile of extensions |
| gambito | Keyboard-first Lichess client for tiling desktops, with Stockfish analysis | playing chess in a browser tab |
| hyprpad | Phone as keyboard, trackpad and media remote for Wayland, over the browser | a proprietary remote-control app |
| keybinds-tui | Keybinding lookup parsed from the real configs, live Neovim included | a cheatsheet you forgot to update |
| Project | What it does | Replaces |
|---|---|---|
| arbitus | Security gateway for MCP tool calls: auth, allow/deny lists, payload filtering, human approval, audit log | vendor-side guardrails you cannot inspect |
| agent-code-buddy | Approval surface on your phone for an agent's writes, commands and API calls | letting an agent run unattended |
| agent-memory | MCP server for project memory across sessions, with staleness checks | context that dies with the session |
Half the work is not a repository here. 20 merged pull requests across 14 projects, with 14 more open — a fix upstream keeps the open option closing the gap on the paid one.
rclone · raylib · Transmission · Lichess · lnav · Cataclysm: BN · Shelfmark · tuicr · rdrview · TorrServer · usage · cliamp
Mate Creations — Yerba Mate (dark) and Tererê (light). Tokens authored in DTCG JSON, compiled with Style Dictionary, WCAG-checked in both themes, shipped to Neovim, VS Code, Obsidian, Zen Browser and LibreWolf from one source.
Patches welcome, here or upstream. MIT throughout, no CLA.