Open Source & Free Tools for Web Workers

happyconf.net is a web-based platform designed to transform inactive conference screens into professional, animated displays and provide organizers with practical event management tools.

The main features of this service include:

• Animated Slideshows: It allows organizers to create elegant presentations to highlight speakers, showcase sponsors, share announcements, and display quotes from the event.

• Integrated Event Utilities: Beyond slides, the platform includes a remote-controlled countdown timer, a large room clock, and a fair prize draw system to entertain and inform attendees during breaks.

• Web-Based and Installation-Free: The service runs entirely in a web browser, requiring no software installation; it can be projected onto any connected screen, TV, or projector.

• Professional Visual Themes: Users can choose from ready-made themes like "Cyberpunk," "Glassy," or "Romantic," or request a fully custom theme to match their specific graphic identity.

• Real-Time Dashboard: Content is managed through a private admin area, and the public display updates in real time as changes are made.

• Event-Based Pricing Model: Instead of a recurring subscription, it offers a "pay-per-event" system with tiers (Starter, Pro, and Custom) tailored to different event sizes, from small meetups to large professional conferences.

• Privacy and Data Sovereignty: To display content, a login is required; once an event is over, all user data is typically deleted to ensure privacy.

Quiqr is a desktop application designed for creating, sharing, maintaining, and publishing websites. Here's a summary of its main features:

• Local Operation: Quiqr runs directly on your computer, ensuring content remains local and provides fast performance without network latency.

• Static Site Generation: It uses static HTML files, which leads to cheap hosting, enhanced security, and stability.

• Hugo Integration: Quiqr is specifically designed for Hugo, featuring an embedded Hugo server and optimized Hugo features and allows for instant importing of Hugo themes.

• Template Gallery: It offers direct access to community templates through a built-in gallery, allowing users to create sites using pre-designed templates that include a CMS.

• Built-in Git Client: Quiqr includes a Git client for pushing sites to platforms like GitHub, BitBucket, or GitLab.

• Easy-to-use CMS: It provides a simple and fast CMS for managing website content.

• Open Source and Free: Quiqr is open source and available for free.

• Ready-made Templates: Offers ready to use site templates.

Primo is a visual CMS that allows you to easily manage content, edit code, and deploy static sites.

Key features of Primo include:

• Drag-n-drop page building Build pages by dragging and dropping pre-built blocks.

• Visual content editing Update text, images, and links directly on the page.

• Integrated development Access each block's code with a click. Blocks are Svelte components.

• Static Sites Websites are secure, scalable, and fast-loading.

• Real-time collaboration Invite collaborators as developers or content editors.

• Multisite: Create an unlimited number of websites on a single server.

• Deploy to Github: Deploy your site to a Github repository and then to any web host.

• Themes: Customize free themes using CSS variables.

• Primo Library: Access a growing library of pre-built blocks.

• Build with Svelte: Page blocks are written with Svelte.

• Internationalization: Manage content for over 60 locales.

• Primo API Improvements Enabled support for internationalized content, static content, and subpages.

• Icon Picker Field Choose from hundreds of thousands of open-source icons.

Primo allows you to set up your own server in under 5 minutes and manage unlimited sites. It is suited for smaller, custom websites.

Future updates may include using it headless alongside SvelteKit, NextJS, etc; design fields to give content editors predefined style options; and cloud functions for writing backend code from Primo.