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wintermeyer
vutuv
wintermeyer/vutuv
SElite
337·Elixir

vutuv is a social network. Think of it as a fast, secure and less annoying open-source alternative for LinkedIn, Facebook and X.

#linkedin#social-network
92%
Merge Rate
14h
Review Time
33%
1st-Timers
2 GFI
Scorecard
beyond-all-reason
teiserver
beyond-all-reason/teiserver
SElite
102·Elixir

Middleware server for online gaming

91%
Merge Rate
1d
Review Time
81%
1st-Timers
15 GFI
Scorecard
nerves-hub
nerves_hub_web
nerves-hub/nerves_hub_web
SElite
269·Elixir

Manage your Nerves device fleet, including firmware updates, health reports, and interactive device consoles.

#buildroot#elixir#iot
87%
Merge Rate
23h
Review Time
88%
1st-Timers
3 GFI
Scorecard
www-zaq-ai
zaq
www-zaq-ai/zaq
SElite
65·Elixir

Connect your people, tools and data with your custom AI agents. ZAQ is an open source collaborative and sovereign agentic operating system

85%
Merge Rate
23h
Review Time
29%
1st-Timers
6 GFI
Scorecard
DROOdotFOO
raxol
DROOdotFOO/raxol
SElite
73·Elixir

Write one app, render it to a terminal, a browser, or as agent tools. The terminal for your Gundam.

#ai-agents#beam#distributed-systems
93%
Merge Rate
8d
Review Time
50%
1st-Timers
15 GFI
Scorecard
expert-lsp
expert
expert-lsp/expert
AWelcoming
2.0k·Elixir

Official Elixir Language Server Protocol implementation

#elixir#language-server-protocol#lsp
89%
Merge Rate
17h
Review Time
100%
1st-Timers
1 GFI
Scorecard
etalab
transport-site
etalab/transport-site
AWelcoming
235·Elixir

Rendre disponible, valoriser et améliorer les données transports

90%
Merge Rate
3d
Review Time
100%
1st-Timers
1 GFI
Scorecard
ash-project
ash_ai
ash-project/ash_ai
AWelcoming
188·Elixir

Structured outputs, vectorization and tool calling for your Ash application

88%
Merge Rate
21h
Review Time
100%
1st-Timers
1 GFI
Scorecard
dwyl
phoenix-liveview-chat-example
dwyl/phoenix-liveview-chat-example
BSolid
162·Elixir

💬 Step-by-step tutorial creates a Chat App using Phoenix LiveView including Presence, Authentication and Style with Tailwind CSS

#auth#authentication#chat
71%
Merge Rate
7h
Review Time
100%
1st-Timers
1 GFI
Scorecard
glific
glific
glific/glific
AWelcoming
221·Elixir

The Main application that provides the core interface via the glific APIs

#elixir#graphql#postgres
80%
Merge Rate
5d
Review Time
78%
1st-Timers
3 GFI
Scorecard
dwyl
hits
dwyl/hits
BSolid
451·Elixir

:chart_with_upwards_trend: General purpose hits (page views) counter

78%
Merge Rate
4d
Review Time
100%
1st-Timers
3 GFI
Scorecard
OpenFn
lightning
OpenFn/lightning
BSolid
295·Elixir

Lightning ⚡️ is latest version of the OpenFn platform, a DPG and DPI building block that governments use to manage complex service/workflow automation and data integration projects.

#dpg#dpi#elixir
73%
Merge Rate
6d
Review Time
56%
1st-Timers
1 GFI
Scorecard
carverauto
serviceradar
carverauto/serviceradar
BSolid
909·Elixir

Open-Source Network Management, Monitoring, ITOM, and Security Analytics

#armis#homelab#monitoring-tool
24%
Merge Rate
10h
Review Time
0%
1st-Timers
1 GFI
Scorecard
pass-agent
loomkin
pass-agent/loomkin
BSolid
179·Elixir

What if AI agents could form teams as fluidly as humans? Spawn specialists in milliseconds, share discoveries in real-time, review each other's work, and remember everything across sessions. Watch it all unfold in a live mission control UI. Open source.

#ai-agents#beam#elixir
92%
Merge Rate
-
Review Time
100%
1st-Timers
1 GFI
Scorecard
bonfire-networks
bonfire-app
bonfire-networks/bonfire-app
BSolid
933·Elixir

Bonfire - tend to your digital life in community. Customise and host your own online space and control your experience at the most granular level.

#activitypub#decentralized#elixir
67%
Merge Rate
6d
Review Time
100%
1st-Timers
2 GFI
Scorecard
sorentwo
braintree-elixir
sorentwo/braintree-elixir
BSolid
103·Elixir

:credit_card: Native elixir client for Braintree

#braintree#elixir#payment-processing
40%
Merge Rate
-
Review Time
0%
1st-Timers
2 GFI
Scorecard
dwyl
learn-elixir
dwyl/learn-elixir
BSolid
1.7k·Elixir

:droplet: Learn the Elixir programming language to build functional, fast, scalable and maintainable web applications!

#beginner#beginner-friendly#elixir
-
Merge Rate
-
Review Time
0%
1st-Timers
1 GFI
Scorecard
dwyl
quotes
dwyl/quotes
BSolid
347·Elixir

💬 a curated list of quotes that inspire action + code that returns quotes by tag/author/etc. 💡

#elixir#json#quotes
100%
Merge Rate
23h
Review Time
0%
1st-Timers
1 GFI
Scorecard
maennchen
crontab
maennchen/crontab
DRisky
101·Elixir

:alarm_clock: Parse Cron Expressions, Compose Cron Expression Strings and Caluclate Execution Dates.

#cron#crontab#elixir
-
Merge Rate
-
Review Time
0%
1st-Timers
2 GFI
Scorecard
quantum-elixir
quantum-core
quantum-elixir/quantum-core
DRisky
2.4k·Elixir

:watch: Cron-like job scheduler for Elixir

#cron#crontab#crontab-format
-
Merge Rate
-
Review Time
0%
1st-Timers
6 GFI
Scorecard

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