Self-hosted projects built with GraphQL

Open-source headless CMS for building customizable content APIs with an admin UI, supporting REST/GraphQL and multiple databases.

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Strapi Cloud+16

Twenty is an open-source CRM alternative to Salesforce with customizable data models, views, permissions, and workflow automation for sales and customer management.

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Salesforce Sales Cloud+18

Payload is an open-source, TypeScript-first headless CMS for Next.js with an extensible admin UI, auth, drafts, access control, and APIs for building fullstack apps.

MITActively maintained

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Payload CMS Cloud+16

Directus turns any SQL database into a headless CMS with an admin app, role-based access control, and instant REST and GraphQL APIs for custom applications.

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Directus Cloud+19

Open-source, API-first commerce backend with modular architecture for custom storefronts and marketplaces.

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Medusa Cloud+15

Hasura is an open-source GraphQL engine that instantly exposes realtime, secure GraphQL APIs over databases and other data sources with fine-grained access control.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Hasura+16

Open source, GraphQL-native headless ecommerce platform with a composable API for products, checkout, payments, and multichannel order management.

BSD-3-ClauseActively maintained

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Saleor Cloud+6

Self-hosted web app for organizing, tagging, and streaming a private adult video and image library with metadata scraping, galleries, and markers.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Plex+11

Tyk Gateway is an open source, cloud-native API gateway for securing, managing, and scaling REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and TCP APIs with auth, rate limits, and policies.

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Amazon API Gateway+6

Open-source TypeScript eCommerce platform for building customizable online stores with React and GraphQL, including catalog, checkout, orders, and an admin dashboard.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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WooCommerce+6

KeystoneJS is an open-source headless CMS and application framework for Node.js that uses TypeScript, Prisma, GraphQL and React to provide customizable schemas, an Admin UI and generated APIs.

MITActively maintained

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KeystoneJS Cloud+19

Headless, API-first commerce platform built with TypeScript, NestJS and GraphQL; plugin-based, multi-database support and customizable admin UI.

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Vendure Cloud+12

LLDAP is a lightweight LDAP server for authentication and user management, providing a simplified LDAP interface, a web admin UI, and SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL backends.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Microsoft Active Directory+2

Open source, web-based helpdesk for managing customer support tickets across multiple channels like email, chat, phone, and social media.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Zendesk+19

Ackee is a self-hosted, privacy-focused website analytics tool built with Node.js and MongoDB, offering a minimal UI and a GraphQL API for collecting traffic and events.

MITActively maintained

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Google Analytics+11

bitmagnet is a self-hosted BitTorrent indexer that crawls the DHT, classifies torrent metadata, and provides search via a web UI, GraphQL API, and Torznab for Servarr.

MITActively maintained

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Bitsearch+1

Ryot is a self-hosted personal tracking platform for media, workouts, and daily habits, with analytics, integrations, and an API for your own data.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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MyFitnessPal+12

OpenTripPlanner (OTP) is an open source multimodal routing engine that builds networks from GTFS and OpenStreetMap to produce itineraries and real-time transit trip plans via APIs.

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ArcGIS Online+2

Open-source Auth0/Clerk/Firebase Auth alternative with passkeys, MFA, SSO (OIDC/SAML), user management portal, and extensible auth flows for web and mobile apps.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Auth0+19

Coral (Talk) is an open-source commenting and moderation platform for publishers, offering real-time conversations, GraphQL APIs, moderation workflows, and extensible plugins.

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Disqus+8

MongooseIM is an open-source Erlang-based XMPP server designed for large-scale messaging, offering multi-tenant deployment, REST/GraphQL APIs, push, and robust observability.

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Firebase+4

Open-source, tag-based time tracker that records time spans with tags and provides customizable dashboards, calendar/list views, themes, and Docker deployment.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Toggl Track+19

Accent is an open-source translation management tool for apps, providing a web UI, CLI, and GraphQL API to manage i18n strings with review history and collaboration.

A PHP-based CMS with a visual page builder, multi-site, localization, ecommerce, and GraphQL/REST APIs.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Vvveb CMS Cloud+19

Graphweaver turns multiple databases and APIs into a single, code-first GraphQL API with an extensible admin UI and fine-grained access control.

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Hasura+10

Self-hosted read-it-later/news-reading platform that saves articles offline, organizes with categories, and integrates with external services via webhooks.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Pocket+12

SourceHut is an open source software development platform with Git/Mercurial hosting, continuous integration, mailing lists with code review, tickets, wikis, and more.

Activity unknown

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SourceHut+15