Top Tools from Jun 29 – Jul 5, 2026

  1. Open-hardware desktop printer and cutter from Open Tools that prints on A4/A3 sheets or paper rolls using refillable cartridges compatible with standard HP ones, driven by open-source CUPS across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android. The design files and 3D-printable spare parts ship under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 so it stays repairable long term. Currently crowdfunding at roughly $300 to $500
    Hacker News discussion Hardware 800 pts
  2. AGPL-3.0 self-hosted photo and video library from the Immich team, the leading open-source Google Photos alternative. This first major version adds a drag-and-drop Workflows automation builder, non-destructive photo editing on mobile, real-time HLS video transcoding and library integrity checks. 106k stars
    Hacker News discussion Photos 638 pts
  3. Apache-2.0 daemonless container and pod engine from the Containers community, a rootless Docker alternative. Version 6 modernizes the networking stack toward Netavark, Pasta and nftables, overhauls Quadlet with a REST API, and adds a multi-provider podman machine with a new OS update command. 32k stars
    Hacker News discussion Developer Tool 643 pts
  4. Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour running natively on macOS, iPhone and iPad by ammaarreshi, built on EA's GPL-3 engine source via the GeneralsX community port with a DXVK/MoltenVK renderer and RTS touch controls. No game assets are bundled, so you supply your own copy from Steam and build it yourself. 920 stars in its first day
    Hacker News discussion Game 666 pts
  5. Free hosted directory of products and businesses from US worker-owned cooperatives by IESAI_ski, spanning apparel, coffee, beer and brick-and-mortar shops. Instant search across over 22,000 listed products, each linking out to the co-op's own store, no signup required
    Show HN discussion Directory 394 pts
  6. GPL-3.0 local-first, encrypted password manager by flythenimbus with a built-in TOTP authenticator. Runs on your own machine with no cloud account, keeping everything in a single encrypted local vault. 125 stars
    Show HN discussion Security 144 pts
  7. AGPL-3.0 log-structured filesystem by Barre that serves any S3-compatible bucket as a POSIX filesystem over NFS and 9P, or as a raw block device over NBD, all from a single userspace process. Data is encrypted with XChaCha20-Poly1305 before upload, with a commercial license available alongside the AGPL one. 2.7k stars
    Show HN discussion Storage 128 pts
  8. Closed-source agentic iOS keyboard from the Acti team that turns your mobile keyboard into an assistant. Hold the Acti Bar and it pulls the link, document or answer you need or runs an action inside any text field, with custom Skill Keys you wire to your own apps via OAuth. Free with a paid Premium tier. Topped Product Hunt's weekly leaderboard
    Product Hunt discussion AI 1078 pts
  9. Closed-source Mac app builder from the makers of Raycast. Describe an app in chat and Glaze generates a real native Mac app that lives in your dock, works offline, taps OS features and connects to external APIs and MCP servers, then publishes to a store or shares privately with a team. Free to start with a paid plan
    Product Hunt discussion Developer Tool 592 pts
  10. iPod Classic-inspired mobile music player that streams from your self-hosted Jellyfin, Navidrome, Emby, Subsonic or OpenSubsonic server without downloading the whole library and syncs star ratings back. This release adds the Jellyfin, Navidrome and OpenSubsonic backends. Closed-source app on Google Play and TestFlight
    Reddit r/selfhosted discussion Music 622 pts
  11. MIT self-hosted file converter by ChaseDak handling images, video, audio, documents and more across roughly 3,000 conversion types, positioned against paid online converters. Version 2 adds archive compression and 3D model formats. 1.1k stars
    Reddit r/selfhosted discussion Utility 104 pts
  12. AGPL-3.0 self-hosted document archiving platform by papra-hq, a minimalist Paperless-ngx alternative for scanning and storing your paperwork. This release adds AI auto-tagging with configurable or bring-your-own LLMs plus external content extraction engines. 4.9k stars
    Reddit r/selfhosted discussion Document Management 49 pts