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80 project ideas across 14 categories. Find the right crates for your next Rust project.

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Container Runtime

Docker/Podman alternative - OCI-compliant container runtime

🐳System & Container

⏱️ 3-6 months

nixoci-speccaps+2

linuxcontainersnamespaces

systemd alternative - Service manager with dependency resolution

🐳System & Container

⏱️ 2-4 months

nixsignal-hookdaemonize+2

linuxinitdaemon

Process Manager

supervisord alternative - Async process supervision

🐳System & Container

⏱️ 1-2 months

tokionixsysinfo

asyncprocesssupervision

Secure code execution with Landlock, seccomp, and namespaces

🐳System & Container

⏱️ 2-3 months

landlockseccompilernix+1

securitysandboxlandlock

Virtual Machine Monitor

Hypervisor using KVM - Run virtual machines

🐳System & Container

⏱️ 6+ months

kvm-ioctlskvm-bindingsvmm-sys-util+1

virtualizationkvmhypervisor

Tokio alternative - Build your own async executor

⏱️ 4-6 months

miopollingasync-task+1

asyncruntimeexecutor

hyper alternative - Low-level HTTP server implementation

⏱️ 2-4 months

socket2httparse

httpservernetworking

Axum/Actix alternative - Build a routing framework

⏱️ 2-3 months

hypertowermatchit+1

webframeworkrouting

nginx alternative - Load balancing and TLS termination

⏱️ 2-4 months

hyperrustlstokio

proxyload-balancingtls

HAProxy alternative - Layer 4/7 load balancing

⏱️ 2-3 months

load-balancingnetworkinghigh-availability

Build a DNS resolver and authoritative server

⏱️ 2-3 months

trust-dns-prototokio

dnsnetworkingprotocol

WireGuard-style VPN with modern cryptography

⏱️ 4-6 months

tun-tapringx25519-dalek

vpncryptographynetworking

tcpdump alternative - Network traffic analysis

⏱️ 1-2 months

pcappnetetherparse

networkinganalysispackets

Key-Value Store

Redis alternative - In-memory data structure server

💾Database & Storage

⏱️ 2-3 months

tokiosleddashmap

databasekey-valuecache

SQLite alternative - Embedded SQL database engine

💾Database & Storage

⏱️ 6+ months

sqlparsermemmap2

databasesqlquery-engine

InfluxDB alternative - Time series data storage

💾Database & Storage

⏱️ 3-4 months

arrowparquettokio

databasetime-seriesanalytics

Elasticsearch alternative - Full-text search engine

💾Database & Storage

⏱️ 3-5 months

tantivyserde_json

searchfull-textindexing

MinIO alternative - S3-compatible object storage

💾Database & Storage

⏱️ 2-4 months

storages3object-storage

Memcached alternative - Distributed caching

💾Database & Storage

⏱️ 1-2 months

dashmaplrutokio

cachedistributedmemory

Write-Ahead Log

WAL implementation for database durability

💾Database & Storage

⏱️ 1-2 months

crc32fastmemmap2byteorder

databasedurabilitywal

Password Manager

Secure password storage with encryption

🔐Security & Crypto

⏱️ 1-2 months

ringaes-gcmargon2+1

securityencryptionpasswords

Certificate authority and management

🔐Security & Crypto

⏱️ 2-3 months

rcgenx509-parserring

pkicertificatesx509

Vault alternative - Secure secrets storage

🔐Security & Crypto

⏱️ 2-3 months

secretsencryptionvault

OAuth2/OIDC authentication server

🔐Security & Crypto

⏱️ 2-4 months

oauth2jsonwebtokenaxum

Hardware Security Module integration

🔐Security & Crypto

⏱️ 2-3 months

hsmpkcs11hardware

Encryption Tool

age/gpg alternative - File encryption

🔐Security & Crypto

⏱️ 1-2 months

chacha20poly1305x25519-dalek

encryptionfilecryptography

clap alternative - Command line argument parsing

🖥️CLI & Terminal

⏱️ 2-4 weeks

cliparsingarguments

TUI framework with widgets and layouts

🖥️CLI & Terminal

⏱️ 1-2 months

ratatuicrossterm

bash alternative - Interactive shell with scripting

🖥️CLI & Terminal

⏱️ 3-6 months

shellscriptinginteractive

Terminal Multiplexer

tmux alternative - Session and window management

🖥️CLI & Terminal

⏱️ 2-4 months

terminalmultiplexersessions

ranger alternative - Terminal file browser

🖥️CLI & Terminal

⏱️ 1-2 months

ratatuiwalkdircrossterm

tuifile-managerbrowser

vim/nano alternative - Terminal text editor

🖥️CLI & Terminal

⏱️ 3-6 months

make alternative - Task runner with dependencies

⏱️ 1-2 months

petgraphwalkdir

buildtasksdependencies

Package Manager

cargo-like package manager

⏱️ 3-6 months

tomlsemverflate2+1

package-managerdependenciesregistry

Linter/Formatter

Code analysis and formatting tool

⏱️ 2-4 months

synquoteproc-macro2

linterformatteranalysis

Git operations with libgit2

⏱️ 1-2 months

gitvcsrepository

CI/CD pipeline runner with Docker

⏱️ 2-4 months

tokiobollardserde_yaml

Log collection and analysis

⏱️ 1-2 months

tracingserde_jsontokio

loggingaggregationanalysis

Performance profiling with flamegraphs

⏱️ 2-3 months

perf-eventinfernosymbolic

profilingperformanceflamegraph

Token generation from source code

🗣️Language & Compiler

⏱️ 2-4 weeks

lexertokenizercompiler

AST generation from tokens

🗣️Language & Compiler

⏱️ 1-2 months

parserastgrammar

Tree-walk or bytecode interpreter

🗣️Language & Compiler

⏱️ 2-4 months

interpreterbytecodevm

Compiler Frontend

LLVM or Cranelift backend integration

🗣️Language & Compiler

⏱️ 4-8 months

compilerllvmcranelift

Just-in-time compilation

🗣️Language & Compiler

⏱️ 4-6 months

jitcompilerruntime

Language Server

LSP implementation for IDE support

🗣️Language & Compiler

⏱️ 2-4 months

tower-lsplsp-types

lspidelanguage-server

WebAssembly runtime and execution

🗣️Language & Compiler

⏱️ 2-4 months

wasmwebassemblyruntime

Extract, transform, load data pipelines

📊Data Processing

⏱️ 2-3 months

arrowdatafusiontokio

etldatapipeline

Stream Processor

Kafka Streams-style stream processing

📊Data Processing

⏱️ 2-4 months

rdkafkatokioserde

streamingkafkareal-time

Schema validation and data quality

📊Data Processing

⏱️ 1-2 months

serdevalidatorthiserror

validationschemaquality

Schema Registry

Schema management and evolution

📊Data Processing

⏱️ 1-2 months

schemaregistryavro

CSV/JSON Processor

High-performance file processing

📊Data Processing

⏱️ 2-4 weeks

csvserde_jsonrayon

csvjsonprocessing

Structured log parsing and analysis

📊Data Processing

⏱️ 2-4 weeks

logsparsinganalysis

Complete game engine with ECS

🎮Graphics & Game

⏱️ 6+ months

Hardware-accelerated 2D rendering

🎮Graphics & Game

⏱️ 2-3 months

2dgraphicsrendering

Modern 3D rendering with PBR

🎮Graphics & Game

⏱️ 4-8 months

2D/3D physics simulation

🎮Graphics & Game

⏱️ 3-6 months

rapier2dnalgebra

physicssimulationcollision

Real-time audio processing

🎮Graphics & Game

⏱️ 2-4 months

cpalrodiosymphonia

audiosoundmusic

Entity Component System framework

🎮Graphics & Game

⏱️ 2-4 months

ecsgamearchitecture

N-dimensional array operations

⏱️ 2-4 months

ndarraynum-traits

tensormatharrays

Deep learning framework

⏱️ 3-6 months

neural-networkdeep-learningml

Inference Engine

ONNX model inference

⏱️ 1-2 months

inferenceonnxml

Vector Database

Similarity search with embeddings

⏱️ 2-4 months

vectorembeddingssearch

Text and image embeddings

⏱️ 1-2 months

tokenizersfastembed

embeddingsnlptext

RabbitMQ alternative - Durable message queue

📡Messaging & Queue

⏱️ 2-4 months

tokiocrossbeamsled

queuemessagingrabbitmq

Publish-subscribe messaging

📡Messaging & Queue

⏱️ 1-2 months

pubsubmessagingbroadcast

Event store and CQRS

📡Messaging & Queue

⏱️ 2-3 months

serdeuuidchrono

event-sourcingcqrsevents

Celery alternative - Background job processing

📡Messaging & Queue

⏱️ 1-2 months

tokioredisserde

task-queuebackground-jobscelery

Metrics Collector

Prometheus alternative - Metrics collection

🔍Observability

⏱️ 1-2 months

metricsprometheusmonitoring

Jaeger alternative - Distributed tracing

🔍Observability

⏱️ 2-3 months

tracingopentelemetry

tracingdistributedjaeger

Application performance monitoring

🔍Observability

⏱️ 2-3 months

tracing-subscribersysinfo

apmmonitoringperformance

Service health monitoring

🔍Observability

⏱️ 2-4 weeks

reqwesttokioserde

healthmonitoringuptime

rsync alternative - Efficient file synchronization

📁File & Document

⏱️ 1-2 months

notifywalkdirblake3

tar/zip archive creation and extraction

📁File & Document

⏱️ 2-4 weeks

archivecompressiontar

PDF document creation

📁File & Document

⏱️ 1-2 months

pdfdocumentgeneration

Image Processor

Image manipulation and processing

📁File & Document

⏱️ 1-2 months

imageprocessingmanipulation

Video Processor

Video transcoding and processing

📁File & Document

⏱️ 2-3 months

videotranscodingffmpeg

Consensus (Raft)

Raft consensus algorithm implementation

🌍Distributed Systems

⏱️ 3-6 months

raftconsensusdistributed

Service mesh with gRPC

🌍Distributed Systems

⏱️ 3-5 months

tonictowerhyper

service-meshgrpcproxy

Distributed Lock

Distributed locking with Redis

🌍Distributed Systems

⏱️ 1-2 months

distributedlockredis

Distributed configuration with etcd

🌍Distributed Systems

⏱️ 1-2 months

etcd-clienttonic

configetcddistributed