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Train on a real team. 🚢

Solo projects teach you to write code. These teach you the job: reading a codebase you didn't write, surviving code review, shipping to people who notice when it breaks. Once a pull request of yours is merged, you have something almost no other junior applicant does.

New to this? Chapter 6 of the guide walks through making your first contribution, step by step.

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Projects to contribute to

Each of these welcomes newcomers and labels issues you can actually start on. Pick one, read its contributing guide, and take a good first issue.

Kotrain’ site: “Train your models. Run your agents. Own your machine.”
JapanBeginner friendly★

Kotrain

Agent Nekko helps you write, code, and handle repetitive work. Use AI running on your computer or connect an online AI service. You choose what Nekko can access and review its work. A model is the AI you choose; local means it runs on your own computer.

  • TypeScript
  • Desktop
  • Local-first
  • AI
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Vaizer’s site: a skill drawn as a workflow graph of command, context, tool and loop nodes
JapanBeginner friendly★

Vaizer

See how your agents work and what they're focused on. A Nekko Labs product, served at vaizer.app.

  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • AI
  • Agents
  • Claude skills
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Hypergate’s site: “Every MCP server. One gate.” over a glowing gate ring
JapanBeginner friendly

Hypergate

Local-first runtime and manager for MCP servers. Run MCP servers securely, supervise them, and expose one gateway endpoint any agent harness (Claude Code, Cursor, Kotrain, Codex) can use. Not just a connector list: a proper server runtime.

  • TypeScript
  • Rust
  • MCP
  • Local-first
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Getsu’s site: a crescent-moon cat mark above “A life you can look back on, one month at a time”
JapanBeginner friendly

Getsu

A monthly journaling and goal-tracking app — the calm antidote to daily-habit apps that become a chore and get abandoned.

  • TypeScript
  • Local-first
  • Product
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Misskey’s site: “Create. Connect. with Misskey.” beside its green 3D logo
Japan

Misskey

🌎 Misskey is an open source, federated social media platform that's free forever! 🚀

  • TypeScript
  • Vue
  • Large project
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Good First Issue: beginner-friendly issues listed per repository, browsable by language
GlobalBeginner friendly

Good First Issue

An aggregator of beginner-friendly issues across popular open-source projects worldwide. A solid way to find your very first contribution if nothing above fits yet.

  • Good first issue
  • Aggregator
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