GoKawiilHeyPuter launches 'Everything Project' to rebuild software as open source
HeyPuter has released the Everything Project, a mono-repository on GitHub aiming to recreate proprietary software like Office, Slack, Photoshop and AutoCAD as free, MIT-licensed alternatives. The repo spans categories including office tools, collaboration, creative tools, engineering, productivity, finance, business, developer tools and games, and requires Node.js 22.12 or newer to run.
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The project's broad scope suggests an attempt to challenge dominant proprietary software vendors across many categories simultaneously rather than targeting a single niche. Its success would depend on sustained developer contribution and whether individual app alternatives can match the functionality of entrenched commercial products, which remains unproven at launch.
- HeyPuter's Everything Project is a single GitHub mono-repo covering multiple software categories
- All code is MIT-licensed, allowing free use, modification and redistribution
- The project aims to replicate tools like Office, Slack, Photoshop and AutoCAD as open-source alternatives
Source: github.com, 2026-10-26
Published there as: “Everything”
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