6 MORE Repos to Replace Paid Software! (ElevenLabs, Pro Tools, AutoCAD)

0:00Man, it's a wild time to be alive. GitHub is absolutely out of control right now with a lot of repos being dropped lately that are doing a ton of heavy lifting. From AI agents being able to reverse engineer closed source apps to somebody absolutely having it out for Adobe and ProTools and releasing rebuilds of their software for free and open source. You can run voice cloning locally now and video editing is something that AI agents are becoming very good at. So, these are six open source repos that are genuinely worth knowing about including one that solved a very specific problem I had with my Hermes agent that I run on a hosting VPS

0:32happens to be sponsoring this video, but we'll get to that in a minute. Starting off with number one is REA or RE reverse engineer anything and this is probably the most consequential on this entire list. Reverse engineer anything with agents from app behavior down to native binaries. This doesn't go in and rip off

0:47source code or anything wild like that. What this is is a framework to go in and give your coding assistant evidence. Typically, if you ask Cloud Code or Codex to recreate a feature in a closed source app, it'll do the best it can just throwing the dart and get its best guess from behavior, screenshots, docs, that kind of thing. Essentially, you just turn it on, tell it to watch what happens while you complete an action. It takes notes and gives that to your agent

1:08so it can complete it for itself, right? The other example it gives is how Notion copies text to your clipboard. So, all you do is you say use RE to trace how Notion copies text and then it'll watch what happens when you do that. It lets the agent investigate the underlying application. There are so many legitimately excellent use cases for this that I'm already reading about. My most favorite is people reporting that they're reverse engineering drivers for hardware that no longer has some

1:30support. A lot of people are doing that. Somebody got their Stream Deck working on Linux. I've got an old audio card that I want to reverse engineer drivers for and this repo is a big deal. I just put out a video on this today and it's already at a million views and the number one sort of response I got is people wanting to reverse engineer support for HP printers not using HP proprietary ink cartridges, which I absolutely want to see. If that happens, I'll keep you posted. This repo is a massive deal. The next one I want to talk about is kind of along this line

1:57where someone has decided that Adobe must die. This is ArtCraft. ArtCraft is less a singular repo and more a declaration of war on traditional SaaS. It's a community of people that are reverse engineering the entire Adobe suite plus plus. Like there's also a Pro Tools replacement and replacement for AutoCAD in here as well. Any sort of digital creative tool they're working on here. At the moment it's got 12 apps with one launcher. So it does image editing, vector illustrations, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics, page layout, word processing, audio,

2:25presentations, CAD, and spreadsheets. Native open source from the ArtCraft team built in Rust. Open source and free to use. Obviously this is massive and any one of these could have their own dedicated video. But a couple things, I'm not an expert in like a lot of these and honest caveat is these are all still being assembled. They're in development or early alpha, right? They're not quite finished yet. The only one I will speak to is SoundCraft because I do have

2:49extensive music production experience. This is pretty good. It is laid out almost exactly like Pro Tools. So if you're used to that or you went to production school, you can get in there and not have to pay the Avid license or whatever. I've always been a Reaper guy, but either way I absolutely love what these guys are doing. The feedback on all of these has been really good, especially PhotoCraft, which is the one that is farthest along. People are

3:08saying that it is absolutely functional. There are features that are still being rolled out. But that's not the point. There's a thread between the first repo that we featured and this project here that are both blowing up. Things are changing and that's exciting to me. This is going to shake a lot up and more importantly there's now no barrier to entry if you want to jump in and try something new. Jump on all of that. Ties in really well to the third repo I want to talk about today, which is HyperFrames. I use HyperFrames all the time. HyperFrames is an open source HTML to video framework. So essentially what

3:33it does is it turns code to video. Basic idea is instead of motion graphics being locked behind a bunch of key frames in whatever editor you're using, HyperFrames generates individual frames and then stitches them together with JavaScript to make videos. Much like old school cartoons, frame by frame. That sounds like a bunch of nerd speak, but if you want to see it in action, I've been using this this week on Instagram to generate cartoons. I'll just show you what I'm talking about. The number one trending GitHub repo this week is called reverse engineer anything. You point your coding agent at an app and it shows you how that app works. You're not

4:02stealing source code or anything, but say you love a particular app feature. This shows you exactly how it's built so you can build your own. There you go. So you can see how it animates my little pixel art guy and it animates the motion graphics behind him. So you can use this in a couple of different ways. For talking head videos like this, you could use HyperFrames for like lower thirds or different retention edits, that kind of thing. Or you can do like full cartoon animations, right? Like every character in this video was drawn with code. And you can do these different motion graphics without HyperFrames, but the

4:27advantage is it makes everything kind of reusable. Builds things out into its own kit. This is fantastic. I use it all the time. Speaking of reusable, my transition game is on fire today. I want to talk about hindsight, which is persistent agent memory. This might seem kind of boring because we hear a lot about memory, especially if you've been watching the space for the last little while. At first it was like, you got to have rag and then you got to have graph rag and then you got to have what was it like, graphify, something like that. But it all speaks to the same problem we

4:52want to solve. We want our agents to be able to behave a little bit like people, right? Remember the conversation when we come back. Ideally, we want it to be able to learn our preferences so it can anticipate needs. And the personal agent that I use is Hermes. It does that. It has that sort of memory layer baked into it, but its memory capacity is really really short. So that's where hindsight comes in. Hindsight is a really detailed memory system that uses a bunch of different techniques. It manages retain and recall very well. The nifty thing about hindsight is it also has a reflect layer. So it doesn't just capture all

5:21that information and hang on to it. It looks over it and finds patterns so it gets way better at what it needs to do. Like I said off the top, I run my personal Hermes agent on a hosting or VPS and they also happen to sponsor this video. So I'll take a second to get you caught up on the setup that I use myself. You can get your very own Hermes agent on the cloud. And when we come back, I'll show you how to set up memory for that agent. To get started, click the top link in the description and it'll send you over to the Hostinger

5:44page where you can set up your very own VPS. VPS stands for virtual private server. All that means is it's a computer somewhere else that you can run all these different apps from and not have to rely on your own hardware. I recommend the KVM 2 plan. I have a couple of these myself and you can run pretty much all of your agents on the

6:01one VPS. So, we'll start with this guy. Go choose plan. From this payment page, you can select the length of your term either 1 month, 12 months, or 24 months. There is a pretty significant discount going on at the moment. However, if you use coupon code e m a i at checkout, it'll apply an additional 10% off your order. 2 years of VPS hosting and you're

6:20saving $700. You're going to be using this anyway, so thanks a lot to Hostinger for setting us up with the discount code. Click continue to move through payment. Once you do that, add the card, Hostinger will spin up your VPS. Usually takes 3 to 5 minutes. Once that's done, you'll be out here on the other side looking at the same thing I am with a brand new Hostinger VPS with Hermes already installed. So, click the top link in the description and make sure you lock in the best price, the easiest deployment, and super reliable hosting. Let's get back to it. This is my actual VPS. I've

6:48got this spun up with Hermes and Nine Router. I've got a video on that as well, but the best part is I can just tell their agent what to do and I don't have to mess around with Docker Compose or anything. Go in here. I'm just going to copy this. Please deploy this Hindsight Compose project on the VPS I'm viewing. First, check Docker Manager for my Nine Router and identify the API endpoint. Awesome. Hindsight recommends that you build it with Docker, so I'm just going to copy this without the Open AI key because I prefer to use my Nine Router. And I'm just going to paste this

7:17in here, too. And away it goes. There, confirmed Hindsight is running on ports. Fantastic. We're just going to go over and get this set up with our Hermes agent. Go to my terminal. Go Hermes memory setup. Boop. I'm going to go over to Hindsight. We'll go local external. We see that Hindsight is now active. Now, Hindsight running on that Docker container is my Hermes agent default memory, which gives it a significant upgrade. Next one on the list is called Voice Studio, and this one I'm actually very excited about as well because it is a fully free open-source 11 Labs alternative. It covers voice cloning, voice design, dubbing, transcription,

7:54dictation, and audiobook generation in one spot. Audio generation, or particularly voice cloning, are typically behind a subscription, right? Or some sort of credit-based payment structure. So, every time you want to tweak a setting, or you're trying to work this out so it sounds right, you're burning through credits. I've tried a few local like voice models before, but the difference here is this is actually really good. I got this set up off camera just because I wasn't entirely sure how long the models would take to set up, but it took about 10 minutes. I uploaded my voice sample in order to clone it. The number one trending GitHub

8:25repo this week is called reverse engineer anything. So, I've loaded in my voice so that I can use that as a reference, and let's just see exactly how this goes. We're just going to copy that same first line, synthesize audio. The number one trending GitHub repo this week is called reverse engineer anything. There you go. That's not so bad. I haven't quite went in and tweaked the settings or found the way that it works best for me, but you can see how beneficial this is. The clone is absolutely usable. I didn't know what these settings meant exactly, so I asked Claude, and the steps are how many

8:54refinement passes the model takes to build the audio. Or equals cleaner. CFG is how strictly the text follows the reference voice. Speed, obviously, is your speaking rate. Anyway, all that's to say you can go in and tweak this so that it matches your preferences. It also comes with a lot of default voices, right? So, we can use this one. The number one trending GitHub repo this week is called reverse engineer

9:14anything. Which is fantastic. There's a lot of really cool things you can do in here. Not just cloning, uh which I think is crazy useful, obviously, but you can do like designing different voices and like preset templates for whatever it is you're using. You can go and create stories, like audiobooks, and have different characters inside this one app. You can dub video as well in what they say, 600 some odd languages, and it's all on your own local device. The last one I want to talk about is called Hyp it, and this follows the open-source creative making stuff sort of format that we've been talking about here

9:44today. Hyp it clones video format. Okay, so the idea is you give it a reference video, and instead of just recreating that video with a different avatar like you would do with C dance or something like that, this tries to reconstruct like the production recipe. Okay, so it takes the shots, captions, B-roll, effects, timing, overall tone, and just the format decisions that made this

10:03video work. And that's This is cool. It's not stealing somebody else's video. What it is is it's taking the format or the idea behind how it was presented and makes it reusable. So, I see this as beneficial to get into content creation to find your style, or also to copy your own videos. Like if you have an outlier video that's working for you, you can just copy that format again and double down on what's working best. They give you some examples of how this works out in the wild. The example videos are all AI generated, so you know, don't pay attention to that. But it does show you

10:30how this works. At least he's got the most followers on Instagram. Messi? Man won a World Cup looking like somebody's So, just a standard tier list, right? And then you can also go in and change the host, which I don't love, but you could. Built like a Greek god, plays like a Greek tragedy. But hey,

10:45You could trade the effects. Lost in IKEA. Went to Miami and turned the world into a retirement home. visual, or you can change the Elon is DC. Man bought Twitter for 44 billion dollars just to change the name. Sends rockets to Mars but can't send a tweet without crashing the stock market. You know what I mean? I want to make it clear that I'm not down with stealing other people's content one-to-one, but this could be great for format research or repurposing your own videos. Another thing I'm thinking is if you're really nervous behind camera or whatever, you could pair this with your new voice clone and your hyperframes animated

11:15avatar, right? It could be a really great way to still put yourself out there without having like a panic attack every time or taking 10 hours to make a short-form video. All of these things can work together and be very good for you. There you have it. You can understand exactly why I'm so pumped on

11:27the state of the GitHub Union right now. I'm using every single one of these. Are ya is the most impressive and I like I said before, the most consequential of all of these in terms of potential. Art Craft shows the future is bright and you guys just watch me upgrade my Hermes agent with hindsight. So, I mean, every single one of these is absolutely useful. I'll leave a link to all of those down in the description and thanks again to Hostinger for sponsoring this video. If you like this video, there's another one right there for your viewing pleasure. Thank you so much for hanging

11:52out and we'll see you in the next one.