A one-person open-source radar
Not an official ranking — the tool I wished existed when I was hunting for new repos.
Every time I went looking for a new open-source tool, I ended up bouncing between GitHub search, Awesome Lists, and Hacker News threads, and the picture was always scattered. git-stars.org's information architecture was the first thing that felt like the right shape — leaderboards sliced by language, topic, and owner, plus a rising-stars view for catching things before they blow up.
What I wanted was my own data pipeline, my own visual language, and the freedom to track signals git-stars doesn't — a 90-day rising window, a trending leaderboard, and eventually a work-category breakdown. So this exists: data collected entirely from the official GitHub API, synced daily, frontend built from scratch on its own design system.
It's still MVP-stage. The leaderboards are in place; trending is still accumulating the snapshot history it needs to unlock. The long-term goal is browsing open-source tools by work category with LLM-assisted recommendations — that's later. Right now the priority is getting the fundamentals solid.
Where the data comes from
Everything comes from the official GitHub REST / Search API — no HTML scraping, no third-party mirrors. Inclusion requires 500+ stars and a recent push; a full sync runs daily, with a lightweight rising-stars scan every 4 hours on top.
How the visual design works
The information architecture takes cues from git-stars — facts and functional structure aren't copyrightable — but the colors, layout, typography, and card shapes were all designed from scratch to read differently on purpose.
What's next
Trending unlocks automatically once enough snapshot history accumulates; next up is a per-repo page with a star-history chart, and longer-term, browsing tools by work category with LLM recommendations. None of that exists yet — the database columns are already reserved for it.
Relationship to git-stars.org
This is an independent project, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or representing git-stars.org. Its information architecture was an inspiration, credited here with thanks; the data pipeline, code, and visual design are built entirely independently.
Data disclaimer
Numbers here reflect what we pulled from the GitHub API at the time of our last sync, which may lag slightly behind what GitHub itself shows, and completeness isn't guaranteed. For anything that matters, check GitHub directly.