A job search engine you host yourself, freehire collects postings from employer career pages, so results link back to the original listing instead of a recruiter repost. Adapters for Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, Ashby, iCIMS, and dozens more normalize every posting into one schema and collapse cross-board duplicates into one entry. Full-text search narrows results by region, work mode, seniority, skills, and salary using curated dictionaries instead of model guesses, so filters return what they promise. Saved searches send email or Telegram digests of new matches, shared boards travel as unindexed links, and insights and trends show which skills are gaining postings and what roles pay by region. A ghost-job signal flags repost patterns and stale listings and shows its evidence, so you can spot roles that never actually close. The CV builder renders PDFs from templates marked ATS-safe or not, a deterministic score compares CVs with vacancies, and a connected LLM tailors CVs using only facts you assert, then rehearses the interview. An application board tracks every stage, a mail inbox links recruiter replies to the application they answer, and reminders flag silent leads. Self-hosters choose their own sources: one catalog row adds a company, and cron-driven workers crawl and index it. A keyless public API, a CLI, and an autofill Chrome extension extend it. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

With over 38,000 GitHub stars, nearly one million registered users, and over 1.3 million resumes created, Reactive Resume delivers a professional resume creation experience that rivals commercial platforms like Resume.io and Zety without collecting user data, showing advertisements, or imposing paywall restrictions. The real-time WYSIWYG editor renders changes instantly as users type, providing immediate visual feedback across all resume sections including work experience, education, skills, certifications, projects, and custom sections with typed extensions. Over fifteen professionally designed templates with full color customization, font selection, spacing adjustment, and icon style selectors ensure each resume reflects individual style preferences. The drag-and-drop system lets users move items between sections and pages freely across multi-column and full-width layouts. PDF generation produces pixel-perfect documents using a headless Chromium rendering pipeline, ensuring consistent output across all devices and print settings. Multi-language support covers over twenty languages with RTL script handling for Arabic and Hebrew. Authentication supports passkeys and multiple OAuth providers via Better Auth, while self-hosted deployment runs via Docker Compose with PostgreSQL and Browserless for PDF rendering. The import system accepts JSON Resume format, LinkedIn data exports, and PDF/DOCX files when AI integration is configured. AI-powered content suggestions using OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, or local Ollama models help improve bullet points and professional summaries. A CSS editor with autocompletion allows fine-grained styling control. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

JobSpy API turns seven major job boards into a single REST endpoint, aggregating listings from LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, Google Jobs, ZipRecruiter, Bayt, and Naukri through one GET request. Built on FastAPI with the Python JobSpy scraping library, the API returns structured JSON or downloadable CSV containing job titles, companies, locations, salaries, descriptions, posting dates, and direct application URLs. Filters cover search terms, location, distance radius, job type (full-time, part-time, contract, internship), remote status, hours since posting, country, and salary range. Interactive Swagger UI and ReDoc interfaces provide try-it-now functionality for testing queries directly in the browser. Security includes x-api-key header authentication with configurable rotation, per-endpoint rate limiting with adjustable thresholds, and response caching with configurable TTL to reduce redundant scraping. Global proxy support routes outbound requests through HTTP/HTTPS proxies to avoid IP-based rate limiting from job boards. Environment variables control everything from default search parameters and logging levels to CORS origins and documentation paths. Health check and ping endpoints integrate with uptime monitoring services. Docker Compose exposes the API on a configurable port. MIT licensed.

Grammar, punctuation, and style errors a dictionary lookup can't see: LanguageTool is open-source proofreading powered by a Java rule engine covering English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, and 25+ other languages. Self-hosting the HTTP server is how you get Grammarly-class checking without sending every sentence you write to a third party - a real concern when the text being proofread is confidential email, legal drafts, or unreleased documentation. Your instance exposes the standard /v2/check API, so the official ecosystem plugs straight in: browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox accept a custom server URL, and integrations exist for VS Code, LibreOffice, Obsidian, Vim, Emacs, and many editors. Notably, self-hosting restores free browser-extension checking that the hosted service moved behind a premium subscription - your server, no character limits, no paywall. Detection quality is tunable: optional n-gram datasets (multi-gigabyte language models for en, de, es, fr, nl) teach the engine word-order and confusion-pair errors like there/their and brakes/breaks, and a fastText model improves automatic language identification. Everything runs offline once models are downloaded. The core is LGPL, the API is documented with Swagger, and rules are community- maintained and constantly expanding.

Stitching together separate SaaS subscriptions for applicant tracking, time-off requests, expense approvals, and monthly payroll creates fragmented employee records and costly per-seat bills; Frappe HR consolidates over 13 human resource modules into one self-hosted platform. People operations teams manage the complete employee lifecycle from job openings, interview assessments, and offer letters through structured onboarding, internal transfers, promotions, and exit interviews. Shift planners organize rotational rosters and capture geolocation-verified attendance check-ins, while employees request leave against regional holiday calendars and multi-tier policies. Finance and payroll managers build custom salary structures, configure regional income tax slabs, process regular or off-cycle payslips, and reconcile employee expense claims and cash advances directly with ERPNext accounting ledgers. Goal tracking and appraisal cycles align individual key result areas (KRAs) with self-evaluations and manager feedback scores. A progressive web app interface lets staff submit leave requests, log attendance, and file expense receipts from their phones. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

The first AI-enabled open-source Human Capital Management system built for the agentic era — not a legacy HRMS with AI features bolted on, but a platform architected from the ground up with native MCP, A2A, and WebMCP protocols enabling any LLM client to query employee records, create calendar entries, and orchestrate multi-step HR workflows. Built on the battle-tested SuiteCRM/SugarCRM CE foundation and extended with 17 dedicated HR modules — recruitment pipeline with candidate scoring, onboarding checklists, competency matrices, employment history tracking, leave management with accrual policies, time and attendance, resource booking, travel and expense reporting, workplace management, performance evaluations, job description builder, employer branding campaigns, offboarding workflows, and a configurable analytics engine — all controlled through granular role-based permissions. The integrated LangGraph-powered AI agent operates with human-in-the-loop confirmation before mutating data, while the MCP server layer exposes structured HR operations to Claude Desktop, GitHub Copilot, and any MCP-compatible client. Native REST API enables integration with SAP, Workday, and custom applications. Mobile apps for iOS and Android provide field access to employee data and approvals. Runs on Apache2 with PHP 8.2, MySQL 8.0 or MariaDB, and ElasticSearch 7.10+ for full-text search and list indexing. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL v3 licensed.

New hires fail from information overload and IT bottlenecks, not lack of goodwill - the observation behind ChiefOnboarding, a free, open-source employee onboarding platform (Django, Celery, PostgreSQL, Redis). Its answer is sequences - drag-and-drop timelines that drip-feed to-do items, resources, courses, forms, and badges to each new hire, triggered by dates or by completing a previous item, so nobody faces everything at once. Onboarding starts before day one: preboarding pages welcome hires early, and colleagues can leave personal messages that appear there. The account provisioning module creates the new hire's Slack, Google, Asana, and other accounts automatically on the scheduled day via a library of integrations plus custom webhooks - the IT ticket queue never gets involved. Everything works through two equivalent interfaces: a full web dashboard and a Slack bot, either usable standalone. Slack can even auto-create new hire accounts when someone joins the workspace and assign default sequences with zero manual action. Colleague tasks with comments and collaboration, a searchable people directory, scheduled introductions, and per-hire timezone awareness (no 3 a.m. notifications) round it out. No trackers, no phoning home - third-party credentials sit in encrypted fields on your server.