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Products that do what Fastest-growing OSS startups for every quarter since Q2 2020 does
Over five years ago, I started publishing the top 20 trending open-source startups every quarter, based on their relative GitHub star growth — the ROSS Index. It has become quite handy for 60K+ developers, founders, and other OSS fans who have visited it to date. To make it even more convenient, we have just open-sourced its full dataset for 22 past quarters, including the fresh list for Q3 2025, so everyone can play with it — for instance, analyze what happened with startups from the first quarters. Given that in the very first index issue (Q2 2020), 5 out of 20 early-stage startups (n8n,…
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2016 · oswatch.net
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OSSCAR is a quarterly ranking of the fastest-growing open-source GitHub organizations. It's a joint project between Supabase and >commit, a VC focused on open-source. A few notes about the methodology: we focus on organization accounts (excluding personal accounts and forks), split them into two divisions by starting star count so smaller and larger ecosystems are evaluated among peers, measure growth across three signals (GitHub stars, contributors, and package downloads from npm, PyPI, and Cargo), normalize each signal within its division using a log–minmax transform, and combine the…
Apr 2026 · osscar.dev
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Hey guys, we just launched a platform to match top startups with high end projects. We're focused on supporting startups that would rather take on a short term consulting gig than raising a round of funding. We'd love some feedback. Thanks!
2011 · grouptalent.com
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2013 · betabeers.com
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