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In April, we launched the Vercel Open Source Program to give maintainers the resources, credits, and support they need to ship faster and scale confidently. The first group joined through our spring 2025 cohort.
Today we are welcoming the winter 2026 cohort.
From AI-native apps and developer infrastructure to design systems and creative tooling, open source builders continue to amaze us. Meet the creators and explore their projects.
Link to headingWinter 2026 Cohort
Link to headingAnswer Overflow
Answer Overflow is an open source project that makes the content sent in public Discord servers accessible to search engines and AI agents. Over 300+ communities use Answer Overflow to create web pages from their Discord content and it serves 1.5 million month active users.
Link to headingUI TripleD
UI TripleD offers UI blocks, components, and full pages in shadcn/ui and Base UI, powered by Framer Motion, with a Landing Builder, Background Builder, and Grid Generator.
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An open source React Native OTA (Over-The-Air) update solution built as a modern alternative to CodePush, designed to avoid vendor lock-in and work across many infrastructure providers.
Link to headingScreenshot Studio
Screenshot Studio is an open source, fully in-browser canvas editor for creating high-quality visual designs without installs or backend dependencies, with real traction and an active contributor community.
Link to headingTakumi
JSX → Image. A next/og alternative with more advanced features, with growing adoption across companies and open source projects.
Link to headingAPIs.guru
A directory and tooling hub for OpenAPI definitions of public APIs, used by thousands of developers and increasingly by LLM-driven workflows.
Link to headingYourDigitalRights.org
A free, open source platform that helps people regain control of online privacy by automating data deletion requests to organizations and guiding users through resolution.
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An open source project that connects Android devices with desktops for file sharing, notification syncing, and remote control—powered by a global user base and active contributors.
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A free, open source library featuring hundreds of beautifully animated Heroicons for React, Vue, and Svelte—ready to drop into modern UIs.
Link to headingNeobrutal UI
A neobrutalist UI component library focused on bold, expressive design—built as an alternative to the minimalism-heavy component library landscape.
Link to headingKanaDojo
A free, community-built Japanese learning platform inspired by open source typing tools, with a growing global user base and contributor community.
Link to headingInsForge
An AI-agent-first backend platform that helps developers spin up production-ready backends in minutes, with a Supabase-style stack designed for agent workflows via MCP.
Link to headingPett.ai
An AI companion app where players care for and build relationships with virtual pets—grown from a simple bot into a highly engaged, global community experience.
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An open source, copy-paste-friendly map components library for modern web apps, built to make map integration clean, composable, and design-consistent.
Link to headingui-layouts
An open source front-end universe for React and Next.js with 100+ interactive components and motion-rich blocks—built to help developers ship beautiful UIs faster.
Link to headingdata-peek
A lightweight, open source tool for exploring databases and SQL without the overhead of traditional clients—popular in education and among developers who want simplicity.
Link to headingEldora UI
An open source React component library built with TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, MDX, and Framer Motion—focused on clean, reusable, well-documented UI building blocks.
Link to headingOutRay
An open source Ngrok alternative built for developers who want a cost-effective, feature-rich tunneling tool with transparent ownership and community momentum.
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An open source AI developer assistant for repository chat and automated README generation—built to reduce friction in understanding codebases and maintaining documentation.
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An open source component library with production-ready React components and UI blocks featuring smooth, performance-focused animations and strong accessibility defaults.
Link to headingCossistant
An open source, fully customizable support system built as the “shadcn of support”—open components, open source, and designed to look and feel like your product.
Link to headingWigggle UI
An open source library of simple, well-designed widgets for the web—bringing OS-style widgets into web apps, built on modern standards and shadcn/ui foundations.
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A project that saw rapid adoption and strong community engagement shortly after launch, reaching major milestones in stars and traffic within the first week.
Link to headingVengenceUI
An open source UI system focused on composable components, performance-first patterns, and real-world workflows—built to be easy to own, extend, and ship.
Link to headingGoDoxy
A high-performance reverse proxy and container orchestrator for self-hosters, designed to simplify service management and reduce setup headaches.
Link to headingMoving Icons
An animated icon library built natively for the Svelte 5 ecosystem, created to bring motion-rich, developer-friendly icons to Svelte projects.
Link to headingErsilia Model Hub
A large open source repository of AI/ML models for antibiotic drug discovery, run by a nonprofit focused on fueling biomedical research in the Global South.
Link to headinguseLayouts
An open source animated UI components library offering ready-to-use motion components for free, built to help developers quickly add polish to interfaces.
Link to headingAssertify
An open source, AI-powered test generation tool that produces framework-specific, production-ready tests—built to reduce the time and effort of maintaining automated test suites.
Link to headingDomainstack
An open source domain monitoring and reporting platform built to replace spreadsheets with a clean, end-to-end system for tracking and managing domain portfolios.
Link to headingPixjis
An open source 2D rendering engine for the web that powers fast, interactive graphics experiences across games, visualizations, and creative tooling.
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A TypeScript SDK for different in-browser AI model providers, built to make client-side AI integration simpler and more consistent across vendors.
Link to headingThe world runs on open source
Thank you to the winter 2026 cohort of our Open Source Program. We’re looking forward to giving back to the community and watching these projects grow.
And to our currently running cohorts (spring, summer, and fall): we're so glad to have you a part of our program!
Want to join the program?
Applications for the winter cohort open in January
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