| 20 Feb 2026 |
 Zellrus | * Nix Software - a user-friendly package search website
Have you ever wanted to install a program but didn’t know its exact name? My website tries to solve this problem.
The main feature of Nix Software is that packages now have logos, screenshots, categories, and descriptions with Markdown support, all of which can be translated into different languages. Everything is managed through an admin panel.
The website also includes smart search. You can search in different languages, with typos, or even use abstract queries like "music" or "browser".
At the moment, more than a thousand packages have metadata. Users can suggest their own package information or translations. The more metadata packages have, the better the search works and the more user-friendly the site becomes.
The website also provides a public REST API for anyone who wants to use it.
I don’t speak English, so I’m using AI to help with translation. Sorry for any mistakes.
Nix Software - https://nixsoftware.org
Frontend - https://codeberg.org/Zellrus/nix-software-frontend
Backend - https://codeberg.org/Zellrus/nix-software-backend
| 15:58:37 |
 zodman | nice! has icons :), it miss the source of the package.nix, and a Idea its you can link the wiki pages to the software because the name its been in the wiki for example weechat > https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Weechat | 16:09:25 |
| zodman | you can add the list of the PR of the software too :) | 16:10:26 |
| Zellrus | Good idea. I’ll see what I can do. | 16:18:42 |
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