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title Submit your free software projects
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List your free software to list on freeware projects directory

Add your free software projects to this freeware projects directory. Let everyone find and use your software for their works. This platforms allows only software projects that comes under open-source, freeware, free-tier, freemium. Please do not free-trial or premium-only software projects here. Our aim is to help developers to utilize all available free resources on the internet.

How to add your free software projects?

If you are a non-developer and know some usefull free projects, please just recommend them here. If you are a developer and have understating of git, please following instructions to add free project resources:

  • Fork the repository selvaklnc/freeware from GitHub.
  • Add your project details as per the instructions there.
  • Commit and create pull-request to our main repository selvaklnc/freeware

Instructions for adding free software projects

While adding your resources to this forked repository, please follow instructions as mentioned below:

  • Go to /_projects directory and duplicate any existing resource like sample-free-project.md
  • Rename the filename suitably related to the project.
  • Make sure that the project does not already exists in the directory.
  • Fill out all the details without modifying format like spacing, tab spacing, etc.
  • Read more about data fieldsand how to fill out

Details about data fields

  1. layout: project

    This should be always project. Do not change this field.

    2. <li><code>title: </code>
<p>Write a suitable title in around 60 characters. e.g. <code><em>VS Code IDE code editor</em></code></p></li>

<li><code>link: </code>
<p>Exact link to the project site e.g. <code><em>https://code.visualstudio.com</em></code></p></li>

<li><code>canonical_url: </code> <em> (Optional)</em>
<p>If you simply copy paste the content from the project site, you should again enter the URL that was already entered above in link field. e.g. <code><em>https://code.visualstudio.com</em></code>. If you write your own unique content, you can just remove this field. </p></li>

 <li><code>icon: </code> <em> (Optional)</em>
<p>Enter project icon name e.g. <code><em>va-code.jpg</em></code>. Before that you need to place the required icon in the same name inside <code>/icons</code> directory adhering to the following conditions:.</p>
    <ul>
    <li>Check if the icon already exists.</li>
    <li>Incon size should be below 3 KB.</li>
    <li>Recommended format is JPG.</li>
    </ul>
</li>
  2. cat:

    Enter category name e.g. Development Tools

  3. type:

    Enter type of the project. e.g. Open source. It may be freeware, open source, freemium and free-tier.

  4. tags:

    Enter suitable tags.

  5. authors:

    Enter your GitHub username. If already exists, add it in listed format like tags.

Freeware projects includes free-tier, open-source and more