Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Little Star
Efficiently and easily manage your GitHub stars
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Little Star launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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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…
2012 · its alternatives →
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Hey friends! We have built an app for getting insights about your favorite GitHub community using large language models. The app uses LLMs to analyze the GitHub profiles of users who have starred the repository, capturing key details like the topics they are interested in. It takes screenshots of the stargazer's GitHub webpage, extracts text using an OCR model, and extracts insights embedded in the extracted text using LLMs. This app is inspired by the “original” Stargazers app written by Spencer Kimball (CEO of CockroachDB). While the original app exclusively used the GitHub API, this…
2023 · its alternatives →
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Add GitHub star badges to your project effortlessly
2024 · github-star-badge.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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2024 · starlens.aisprint.dev · 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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StarMe▲2Add an animated GitHub star reminder to your README
Apr 2026 · starme.dev · its alternatives →
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Compare npm trends and github stars together
2025 · basicutils.com · its alternatives →
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