Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. GitHub Popularity Contest launched in 2013; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   GitHub Polls▲252

   Polls for GitHub issues and readme

   2017 · gh-polls.netlify.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   GitHub Awards▲173

   Discover your ranking on GitHub

   2015 · serp.co · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Epic Dev Battles of History▲124

   Challenge top dev in an epic GitHub contribution showdown!

   2025 · epicdevbattlesofhistory.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Scores by Hyperlog▲70

   Rank GitHub profiles of over 70 Million+ developers

   2022 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Forkest▲61

   Turn your GitHub contributions into a pixel-art garden

   27d ago · forkest.dev · its alternatives →

6. 6
   GitHub user polls (markdown friendly)▲50

   Polls for user feedback in GitHub issues. Contribute to apex/gh-polls development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Github Serendipity▲82

   Smart way to explore popular github repo

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

8. 8FV
   Feature voting for GitHub▲108

   2015 · feathub.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   A small game where you have to guess the stars of GitHub repositories▲5

   Hey everyone, here is a small project I've built over the last weekend. I'd love to know what you think :)

   May 2026 · starguessr.vincentwill.com · its alternatives →

10. 10GP
    GitHub Party!▲7

    2015 · github.party · its alternatives →

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    Frankly▲101

    A dashboard of issues and PRs across GitHub repositories.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

12. 12GM
    Ghit.me – hit counter badges for GitHub▲7

    2015 · ghit.me · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Contest Domination▲64

    Contest software to help build impressive email iists

    2014 · contestdomination.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Contentify▲70

    a real-time collaborative content manager on top of Github

    2014 · thyb.github.io · its alternatives →

15. 15SE
    Software Engineer search tool based on GitHub public contributions▲7

    2015 · findmyninja.io · its alternatives →

16. 16SK
    Source Karma, discover how people react to you on GitHub▲7

    2021 · sourcekarma.vercel.app · its alternatives →

17. 17GW
    GitHub Watches for User▲7

    2012 · gh.hnresources.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Social Authoring▲11

    $100k Developer Writing Competition Powered by GitHub API

    2015 · airpair.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Avoiding spam on GitHub▲8

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Every Developer in the World, Ranked▲11

    We've indexed 5M+ GitHub users and built a ranking system that goes beyond follower counts. The idea started from frustration: GitHub is terrible for discovery. You can't answer "who are the best Python developers in Berlin?" or "who identified transformer-based models before they blew up?" without scraping everything yourself. So we did. What we built: CodeRank score - a composite reputation signal across contributions, repository impact, and community influence Tastemaker score - did you star repos at 50 stars that now have 50,000? We track that Comparison Builder - allows users to build…

    Mar 2026 · coderank.me · its alternatives →

21. 21GT
    Guess the Karma. Game I made about predicting popularity on Reddit▲7

    2015 · guessthekarma.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    GitHub Trends Analysis▲11

    Measure technology popularity and adoption trends on GitHub

    2025 · trends.domage.dev · its alternatives →

23. 23
    CodeNav – token highlighting and click-to-find usages on GitHub▲5

    2014 · ianww.com · its alternatives →

24. 24IM
    I made an app to automatically request code reviews on GitHub▲5

    2017 · app.assignees.io · its alternatives →

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