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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.

JapanBeginner friendly★

Nekko Agent

Nekko Agent is a seriously fast local model server and an AI agent, together in one app. Run models on your own computer, bring in ChatGPT or Claude when you want them, and decide exactly what Nekko gets to touch.

  • TypeScript
  • Desktop
  • Local-first
  • AI
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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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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, Nekko Agent, Codex) can use. Not just a connector list: a proper server runtime.

  • TypeScript
  • Rust
  • MCP
  • Local-first
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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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JapanBeginner friendly

Nekko Dojo Skills

A public Agent Skills hub by Nekko Labs — a place to find, share, and install Claude Agent Skills. Browse the catalog, with a workflow graph for every skill, at vaizer.app/skills.

  • Agent Skills
  • Markdown
  • Claude Code
  • Good first PR
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JapanBeginner friendly

Nekko Dojo

1. Articles — director-level perspective on engineering, AI, and growing a career as the market shifts. 2. The Guide — a step-by-step path for switching into software development (especially for career-changers in Japan). 3.

  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Content
  • Good first PR
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Japan

Misskey

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

  • TypeScript
  • Vue
  • Large project
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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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