Echo

Judgement

What it is

Framework or platform

What it does

A minimalist Go web framework on top of net/http with routing, middleware, data binding and automatic TLS.

Adopt it when

You build HTTP APIs in Go and want a bit more structure than the standard library.

Watch out

The v5 release changed APIs, so upgrades from v4 take work.

Ready for

Production-ready

Runs as

Library

Built with

Go

How established

Established: started 11 years ago, latest release v5.4.4.

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Echo → Go → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

Built on Echo: 10 projects

1. 1
   LocalAI mudler

   LocalAI is the open-source AI engine. Run any model - LLMs, vision, voice, image, video - on any hardware. No GPU required.

   Complete system Usable You want a drop-in local replacement for OpenAI's API covering more than just text.

   ★ 50k MIT Go Active, pushed today
2. 2
   Hatchet hatchet-dev

   🪓 An orchestration engine for background tasks, AI agents, and durable workflows

   Building block Usable You have outgrown Celery or BullMQ and want durable workflows without operating Temporal.

   ★ 8.2k MIT Go Active, pushed today
3. 3
   RWKV-Runner josStorer

   A RWKV management and startup tool, full automation, only 8MB. And provides an interface compatible with the OpenAI API. RWKV is a large language model that is fully open source and available for commercial use.

   Complete system Usable You want to run RWKV models on your own PC and use them from ChatGPT-style clients.

   ★ 6.5k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed today
4. 4
   Vikunja go-vikunja

   The task manager you actually own.

   Complete system Production-ready You want a Todoist-style task app you host yourself, for yourself or a small team.

   ★ 5.9k AGPL-3.0 Go Active, pushed 5 days ago
5. 5
   Seanime 5rahim

   Open-source media server with a web interface and desktop app for anime and manga.

   Complete system Usable You watch anime from your own library and want AniList tracking built in.

   ★ 4.3k GPL-3.0 Go Active, pushed 19 days ago
6. 6
   Paisa ananthakumaran

   Paisa – Personal Finance Manager. https://paisa.fyi demo: https://demo.paisa.fyi

   Complete system Usable You keep or want to keep personal books in ledger format and want visual reports on top.

   ★ 3.2k AGPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed 16 days ago
7. 7
   Pgbackweb eduardolat

   🐘 Effortless PostgreSQL backups with a user-friendly web interface! 🌐💾

   Complete system Usable You have a few PostgreSQL databases and want scheduled dumps managed from a browser.

   ★ 2.7k AGPL-3.0 Go Active, pushed 2 months ago
8. 8
   Beta9 beam-cloud

   Ultrafast serverless GPU inference, sandboxes, and background jobs

   Framework or platform Usable You want Modal-style serverless GPU workloads, either on Beam's cloud or on your own GPU servers.

   ★ 1.8k AGPL-3.0 Go Active, pushed today
9. 9
   Swiftwave swiftwave-org

   Self-hosted lightweight PaaS solution to deploy and manage your applications on any VPS [Your own self-hosted Heroku, Vercel]

   Complete system Usable You want a Heroku-style dashboard on a few cheap VPSes or ARM boards without Kubernetes.

   ★ 909 Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed 4 days ago
10. 10
    Gol kevincobain2000

    No you don't need a 64GB RAM and ElasticSearch. An all in One - Dependency free (docker, local, remote) Log Viewer in Browser. Written in GO with God Speed.

    Developer tool Usable You want to read and search a server's logs in a browser without setting up a logging stack.

    ★ 117 MIT Astro Slowing, pushed 4 months ago

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