A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers, with the emphasis on startups

Awesome list of open-source startup alternatives to well-known SaaS products 🚀

FastAPI Best Practices and Conventions we used at our startup

Open-source web application framework for ASP.NET Core! Offers an opinionated architecture to build enterprise software solutions with best practices on top of the .NET. Provides the fundamental infrastructure, cross-cutting-concern implementations, startup templates, application modules, UI themes, tooling and documentation.

The Startup CTO's Handbook, a book covering leadership, management and technical topics for leaders of software engineering teams

Docker image that provides a Minecraft Server for Java Edition that automatically installs/upgrades versions, modloaders, modpacks and more at startup

🚂 🦀 The one-person framework for Rust for side-projects and startups

Compiled list of links from "Ask HN: Where can I post my startup to get beta users?"

A RWKV management and startup tool, full automation, only 8MB. And provides an interface compatible with the OpenAI API. RWKV is a large language model that is fully open source and available for commercial use.

Practical marketing resources to get the first 10 / 100 / 1000 users for your SaaS / App / Startup

A checklist of tactics for marketing your startup.

:link: The fancy start screen for Vim.

AdSkip — an Android assistant for automatically skipping app launch ads

security tips for startups

A free React / Next.js landing page template designed to showcase open source projects, SaaS products, online services, and more. Made by

Simple Light is a free landing page template built on top of TailwindCSS and fully coded in React / Next.js. Made by

🚀 Show a splash screen during app startup. Hide it when you are ready.

The best workflows and configurations I've developed, having heavily used Claude Code since the day of it's release. Workflows are based off applied learnings from our AI-native startup.

✨ A collection of awesome companies offering free/discounted plans for eligible startups

🔥 Java enterprise application development framework for full scenario: Restrained, Efficient, Open, Ecologicalll!!! 700% higher concurrency 50% memory savings Startup is 10 times faster. Packing 90% smaller; Compatible with java8 ~ java25; Supports LTS. (Replaceable spring)

A library of enterprise-grade AI agents designed to democratize artificial intelligence and provide free, open-source alternatives to overvalued Y Combinator startups. If you are excited about democratizing AI access & AI agents, please star ⭐️ this repository and use the link in the readme to join our open source AI research team.

A checklist for incorporation so you can get back to building your product, fundraising, etc.

Open Source CRM for Startups — Django REST + SvelteKit · Self-hosted · Multi-tenant · Free forever

🚀 Free resources you may use to promote your next startup

:sunglasses: All the required resources to build your own startup

Building Startups with an AI Co-Founder

A curated and opinionated list of resources for startup founders and leaders of high-growth companies

Tiny alternative Discord client with a smaller footprint, snappier startup, themes, plugins and more!

Every time I have an idea, I write it down. These are a collection of my top software ideas -- problems I think enough people have that don't have solutions. I expect you can reach a decent userbase if marketed correctly, as I am surely not the only one with these problems.

Distrod is a meta-distro for WSL 2 which installs Ubuntu, Arch, Debian, Gentoo, etc. with systemd in a minute for you. Distrod also has built-in auto-start feature on Windows startup and port forwarding ability.