A new open-source mono-repository — the Everything Project — has been published under the HeyPuter GitHub organization, with the stated goal of rebuilding and open-sourcing the world's commercial software from scratch. The MIT-licensed project aims to produce free alternatives to familiar proprietary tools, from Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop to Slack and AutoCAD.

What the Everything Project is

The Everything Project is a single mono-repository that collects open-source reimplementations of widely used commercial applications. Its stated goal, in the project's own words, is to "rebuild and open-source the world's software from scratch," recreating free, open-source alternatives to proprietary software.

The repository is licensed under the MIT license and spans nine languages: CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PowerShell, Python, Rust, Shell, TeX and TypeScript. It organizes its work into broad categories — Office, Collaboration, Creative Tools, Engineering, Productivity, Finance, Business, Developer Tools and Games.

How far the scope reaches

The project's application list reads like a catalogue of the most common pieces of commercial software:

  • Office — spreadsheet (an alternative to Excel, Google Sheets and Numbers), documents (Word, Google Docs, Pages), presentations (PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote), whiteboard (Miro, FigJam), PDF (Adobe Acrobat), notes (OneNote, Evernote) and records (Airtable, Access).
  • Collaboration — meetings (Zoom, Google Meet, Teams), team chat (Slack), email (Gmail, Outlook), contacts, calendar and e-signatures (DocuSign).
  • Creative Tools — photo editing (Photoshop), video (Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve), vector (Illustrator), audio (Audition), music (Ableton, FL Studio) and 3D (Maya, SketchUp).
  • Engineering — CAD (AutoCAD, DraftSight), parametric modelling (SolidWorks, Fusion) and circuit design (Altium, Eagle).

Each entry links to a runnable preview and its source code.

Status and traction

The repository was created on 13 October 2026 and has since gathered roughly 4,300 stars and over 500 forks on GitHub. Its leading contributor, "jelveh," has made the large majority of the commits so far.

The project should be read as early-stage. It is a mono-repository of reimplementations at various levels of completion, not a set of finished, production-grade replacements. Running an application requires Node.js 22.12 or newer; contributors and users git clone the repository, move into the relevant src/[app-name] directory, and start it with npm install and npm run dev.

Why it matters

For developers, the Everything Project is notable less for any single tool than for its scope: it is a coordinated attempt to make the everyday software that most people pay for available as free, inspectable, modifiable open source. That is an unusually large ambition for a single repository.

Whether it matures into functional, day-to-day replacements for the flagship products it targets remains to be seen. What is verifiable today is the starting point: a permissively licensed mono-repo, already public, with early builds of recognizable alternatives to some of the most used commercial applications on the market.

Sources

  • Everything Project repository — "We're rebuilding and open-sourcing the world's software from scratch," MIT license, nine languages, category and per-application list, Node.js 22.12+ setup instructions, created 2026-10-13, ~4,300 stars — github.com/HeyPuter/everything
  • Project brief describing it as "an MIT-licensed mono-repo that recreates the core of Office, Slack, Photoshop, and AutoCAD" — GoKawiil