Alternatives

Products that do what HubStar, the missing "star" feature for GitHub repositories does

After the recent HN discussion[1] about what's wrong with GitHub's "Watch" feature, I was spurred to finish a pet project I put about 8 hours into a month ago. HubStar[2] is the missing "star" feature for GitHub repositories. The idea is you log into the site using GitHub's OAuth, download a browser extension (currently only Chrome is available), and you can now star repositories directly from their GitHub pages. The links are stored remotely on the HubStar site for later searching. Prior to this I was using the GitMarks Chrome plugin, but my main problem with it was that it only showed me…

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Hubble▲84
Github stars management tool
2022
2
star-history▲74
The missing star history graph of github repos
2019
3
Star Order▲90
Manage your GitHub stars like a pro.
2022
4
StarLens▲160
What do your GitHub stars say about you?
2024
5
Githunt 2.0▲176
Explore the top projects on GitHub 🏆
2018
6
Astral▲188
Organize your GitHub stars with ease
2014
7
GitTags▲92
Tag your GitHub repos, gists, and stars
2020
8
Bookmarking for GitHub▲204
Save and organize your favorite GitHub repositories
2017
9
Stargazer▲29
Your open source journey stars here
2025
10
GitHub Recommender Extension▲74
Get similar repositories on GitHub based on its description
2022
11SB
StarCLI – Browse trending repos on GitHub by star, date, and more▲27
2020 · github.com
12
GitHub Repo Visibility Analyzer▲141
Make devs notice your repo
Nov 2025
13
Roundup▲111
Email digest of new releases from your starred GitHub repos
2017
14GA
GitStars - A better way to organize your GitHub starred repositories▲5
Just released a simple web tool, GitStars (http://www.gitstars.com) to help make the act of starring repositories on GitHub infinitely more useful. When you log into GitStars, your starred GitHub repositories are fetched and automatically tagged. You can freely edit the tags and help make the system's auto tagging better for everyone. In this early version, we were focused on helping you re-discover the repositories that you may have starred and lost track of. You can browse or search the repositories by the tags that were automatically generated. I would love to hear your comment on whether…
2012 · gitstars.com
15
GitHub Chat▲115
Chat with any github repository, file or wiki
2025
16
github-plus▲156
Chrome Extension to display file size, download & copy link
2016
17FA
Find alternatives to almost any popular GitHub repo▲120
Several months ago, I built a "stealth" feature that I could use. It hasn't been advertised, and I've been the only user. As I find it useful for myself, I believe others (software developers) may like it too. So, this is the first public post about it, and if it gets any positive feedback, I may put some time into promoting it more. In essence, given that you've opened a GitHub repo (there are ~225k of the more popular ones indexed as of now), you can replace "github" with "libhunt" within the URL, and you will find the top alternatives and related projects. For example, here are three…
2022
18
Octohub▲127
The missing app for GitHub
2015
19
Github Compare▲80
Compare Github repositories
2019
20
Twitter for Github▲85
Chrome extension to display handles on Github
2016
21
Contributions For GitHub 2.0▲81
GitHub commit graph, now with WidgetKit and Mac support
2021
22
The Hub▲84
Github activity in your Mac's menubar
2015
23TM
The missing star history graph of GitHub repository▲6
2015 · github.com
24GS
GitHub Stars Semantic Search - Find Your Starred Projects▲5
2024 · github.com

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