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10 GitHub Repos Quietly Making Developers Rich While They Sleep

8 min readMay 28, 2026

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Hi everyone, I am Nitin Gavhane and in this blog I’m going to show you 10 open-source GitHub repos that smart developers are turning into real recurring income — some charging $2,000/month, some doing six-figure exits — without writing a single line of core product code.

The repos do the heavy lifting. The money is in what you do with them.

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Why GitHub Is the Biggest Untapped Business Directory on the Internet

Most people use GitHub to store code. Some people use it to get hired. A small group of developers figured out something different: GitHub is a catalogue of pre-built products waiting to be packaged, deployed, and sold to people who will never touch a terminal.

That’s the game here.

You don’t need to build a product. The product exists. You need to find the painful problem it solves, wrap it in a service, and charge for that. Every repo below has people doing exactly this — right now, quietly, while posting nothing about it on Twitter.

1. n8n — The Automation Agency in a Box

Repo: https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n

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Nitin Gavhane
Nitin Gavhane

Written by Nitin Gavhane

Started freelancing, got obsessed with AI and security. Now sharing everything I learn with builders and founders. https://nitingavhane.com/