Replace Webflow with Astro
Plus: Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot, 5 projects climbing, and 8 more builds from the week.
Morning, builders. This week we’re replacing Webflow — your website builder. Below are the 3 open-source tools that do the job, ranked, with how hard each is to run. Then: what builders shipped this week. Every item links to its source.
Replace this subscription: Webflow
It’s your website builder. Here’s what you can run instead:
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What builders shipped
Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot
- The story
- 836 points and 246 comments on Hacker News · neufangled.com.
- The signal
- open source
Nvidia – open-source auto-ontology
- The story
- 288 points and 138 comments on Hacker News · github.com.
- The signal
- open source
Revolut moves to self-hosted GLM
- The story
- 192 points and 168 comments on Hacker News · twitter.com.
- The signal
- self-hosted
Climbing the index
- thedotmack/claude-mem+3.1k★ this weekAgent framework
Persistent Context Across Sessions for Every Agent – Captures everything your agent does during sessions, compresses it with AI, and injects relevant context back into future sessions. Works with Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex, Gemini, Hermes, Copilot, OpenCode + More
- cathrynlavery/diagram-design+2.1k★ this weekVisualization grammar
Editorial diagram design for Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Factory Droid, Qoder, and Pi. 45 diagram types. Self-contained HTML + SVG. No shadows. No Mermaid slop.
- Graphify-Labs/graphify+1.9k★ this weekAgent framework
Turn any codebase, with its docs, SQL schemas, configs, and PDFs, into a queryable knowledge graph. A /graphify skill for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini CLI: local deterministic AST parsing, every edge explained, no vector store.
- chen08209/FlClash+1.8k★ this weekNetworking & tunnels
A multi-platform proxy client based on ClashMeta,simple and easy to use, open-source and ad-free.
- lfnovo/open-notebook+532★ this weekNotebooks
An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features
Quick hits
- We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years 164 pts · github.com
- Synaptics Appears to Use Legal Threats to Block Open-Source DisplayLink Driver 229 pts · phoronix.com
- Kairos – Open-source risk and fraud decisioning platform 104 pts · github.com
- Bong: DuckDuckGo bang alternative, open-source and self-hosted 31 pts · bong.glendalab.com
- Octomind – open-source AI harness that saves your tokens, static rust 56 pts · github.com
- Dear Open Source Developers: It's OK not to embargo 19 pts · opensourcesecurity.io
- Open-Source 5G Ran Platforms: A Dual Perspective on Performance and Capabilities 52 pts · arxiv.org
- Gauge – Open-Source CLI to recursively improve your docs 42 pts · github.com
How this was made. Replacement: one subscription per week, rotating through every product in the catalog with at least two open-source replacements, tools ranked by GitHub stars. Stories: Hacker News and Lobsters posts from the past seven days that clear an engagement floor and carry a build-it-yourself signal, ranked by points × signal strength. Climbing: stars gained over seven days from nightly GitHub snapshots.