Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to HubStar, the missing "star" feature for GitHub repositories
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…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. HubStar, the missing "star" feature for GitHub repositories launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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star-history▲74The missing star history graph of github repos
2019 · star-history.com · its alternatives →
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Little Star▲78Efficiently and easily manage your GitHub stars
2021 · littlestarcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Explore your GitHub repositories with ease
2023 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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When I came across a study that traced 4.5 million fake GitHub stars, it confirmed a suspicion I’d had for a while: stars are noisy. The issue is they’re visible, they’re persuasive, and they still shape hiring decisions, VC term sheets, and dependency choices—but they say very little about actual quality. I wrote StarGuard to put that number in perspective based on my own methodology inspired with what they did and to fold a broader supply-chain check into one command-line run. It starts with the simplest raw input: every starred_at timestamp GitHub will give. It applies a…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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File system for GitHub & GitLab. Contribute to winfsp/hubfs development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Create and maintain your own Awesome-style list from GitHub stars! - maguowei/starred
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GitNews Web▲265Trending repositories from GitHub, HackerNews & Reddit
2019 · git.news · its alternatives →
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2024 · starlens.aisprint.dev · its alternatives →
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I made this as a fun tiny project to experiment with Remotion [1] to generate videos. You can find the source code on GitHub [2]. [1] https://www.remotion.dev/ [2] https://github.com/scastiel/github-stars-video
2023 · scastiel.dev · its alternatives →
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Gitingest is a open-source micro dev-tool that I made over the last week. It turns any public Github repository into a text extract that you can give to your favourite LLM easily. Today I added this url trick to make it even easier to use! How I use it myself: - Quickly generate a README.md boilerplate for a project - Ask LLMs questions about an undocumented codebase It is still very much work in progress and I plan to add many more options (file size limits, exclude patterns..) and a public API I hope this tool can help you Your feedback is very valuable to help me prioritize And…
2024 · gitingest.com · its alternatives →
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Get similar repositories on GitHub based on its description
2022 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Just in case you want to keep a backup Github Starred Repos.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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