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Open source runs the world. The frameworks, libraries, and tools we rely on are strengthened by communities that share ideas, review code, and build in the open.
At Vercel, we want to help those communities thrive. That’s why we launched the Vercel Open Source Program: a developer initiative that gives maintainers the resources, credits, and support they need to ship faster and scale confidently.
Four times a year, we’ll welcome a new cohort of projects into the program. Members receive $3,600 in Vercel credits, perks from partners, and a dedicated Slack space to learn from one another.
Today we are announcing this spring's cohort.
Spring 2025 cohort
Vecto3d
Vecto3d converts your SVGs into 3D models. Since its launch, the project has gotten over 40K site visits and over 1,000 stars on GitHub. Unlike other SVG to 3D model converters, Vecto3d doesn’t charge for exporting.
Script Kit
Script Kit is a desktop app for launching scripts. It ships with an SDK to help simplify desktop/api actions and includes a custom set of prompts to handle user input/output. With over 8K commits across project repos and an existing large community, Script Kit is a thriving open source project.
Lenis
Lenis, with 33K weekly npm downloads and 10K GitHub stars, is a lightweight, robust, and performant smooth scroll library. Designed by @darkroom.engineering for effortless integration and modern browser optimization, Lenis makes it easy to add smooth scrolling effects-like parallax and WebGL syncing-to any website.
Fumadocs
Fumadocs is a beautiful documentation framework for Next.js. With over 6K GitHub stars, it leverages the power of Next.js while making it easier to create high-quality documentation sites. We use it at Vercel for our Flags SDK, Turborepo docs, and more.
Shadcn-table
Sadman wanted to build a quick way to setup a shadcn/ui table with server side pagination, sorting, and filtering. Shadcn-table is quickly gaining popularity with nearly 5k GitHub stars.
Morphic
Morphic is an AI-powered search engine with generative UI that transforms search results interaction. The project's growth to 7.3K stars and 2K forks stems from its simplicity, just two API keys needed for Vercel deployment.
Zola
Julien is building Zola to be the go-to open-source AI chat app. Fast, clean, multi-model, and easy to use. The goal is to make AI more accessible.
Valibot
Valibot helps you validate data easily using a schema. Started as just a research paper, Fabian has built this into a project with 7.5K GitHub stars and nearly 1 million weekly npm downloads.
shadcn-form
Shadcn-form helps you build forms faster by combining the reusable, copy/paste approach of shadcn/ui with other popular tools in the community like react-hook-form and zod. It’s growing in popularity with 2.2K GitHub stars.
jsPDF
With nearly 2 million weekly npm downloads, jsPDF was the first PDF generation lib in JS. It’s used by some of the biggest companies in the world like NASA.
LobeChat
The control panel for your AI interactions, LobeChat is doing wonders for the open source community with over 60k GitHub stars and over 12k forks. LobeChat is a modern, open-source AI chat framework that supports multiple AI providers, knowledge management, multimodal plugins, and one-click private deployment.
Milkdown
Milkdown allows users to build rich text markdown editors on their own. It’s especially helpful for junior developers, offering the Crepe editor as a ready-to-use package with well-designed themes. With nearly 10k in GitHub stars and over 17k in weekly npm downloads, this WYSIWYG editor is making a strong impact in the open source community.
KokonutUI
KokonutUI is a collection of components that can be installed with shadcn/ui CLI or open in v0 for further customization.
nuqs
With over 300K weekly npm downloads, nuqs is a type-safe search params state manager for React frameworks. It’s grown to be extremely popular in the Next.js community.
Nemo
Nemo is designed to help Next.js developers better understand how to build with middleware and compose smaller middlewares together. It has almost 5K weekly npm downloads.
RetroUI
RetroUI is an open source UI library based on React, Next.js, and shadcn/ui. Any of the components can be opened in v0 for further customization.
Tweakcn
In it’s first 2 weeks after launching, tweakcn gained 500 GitHub stars and now sits at almost 2.5K. Sahaj is on a mission to build the ultimate platform for making your website look awesome and customizable, building off the power of the shadcn/ui design system. You can generate your themes using AI and drop them into v0 or other shadcn/ui applications.
CourseLit
CourseLit is a platform for building and selling digital products on your website. Rajat wanted to open source all aspects of the infrastructure so that anyone could self-host the platform.
Comp AI
Comp AI is building an open source compliance automation platform as an alternative to Vanta & Drata. With over 1000 commits in the past 90 days and an active Discord of 500 developers, Comp AI is a thriving open source project.
EsJS
EsJS is a programming language with Spanish syntax that compiles to JS. This allows Spanish-speakers to learn programming in a more familiar and accessible way without giving up the power and versatility of JavaScript.
Gridiron Survivor
A community of open source builders, Gridiron Survivor’s are creating projects in the open to help build their resumes and land jobs. Elfgorithm is just one of the many open source projects they are building in public.
Creator: Shashi Lo
Frontpage
A federated link aggregator that has since been adopted as the defacto link-aggregation website for the Bluesky community. It serves as a front page to the internet, allowing users to post, vote, and comment on links and discussions from across the web.
The web runs on open source
Thank you to the spring 2025 cohort of our Open Source Program. We’re looking forward to watching these projects grow and give back to the community.
Want to join the program?
Applications for the Summer cohort open in July
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