Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Maintainers Wanted
No time to maintain your project? Find new maintainers!
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Maintainers Wanted launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A few days ago, someone I follow asked the community for help maintaining his side-project, 512kb.club. This got me thinking. There are loads of maintainers out there feeling burnt out, but they can't abandon their project since people are depending on the project to be maintained. In an effort to combat this, I built a website that lists projects looking for new maintainers. It's still quite empty and has some rough edges. Any feedback is very welcome!
2022 · seeking-maintainers.net · its alternatives →
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- 3IW
2019 · sourcesort.com · its alternatives →
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GitHub Reader▲109A quick way to browse GitHub issues and pull requests.
2018 · git-issues.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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🌐 The Internet Computer! Free, Open-Source, and Self-Hostable. - HeyPuter/puter
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Find any OSS project calling for collaborators
2020 · rfm.sospedra.me · its alternatives →
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Hire from the world's largest developer community
Jan 2026 · recruiter.daily.dev · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, A couple years ago, I got into programming and fell down the rabbit hole of open-source software. I started realizing a lot of the commercial software I used had open-source alternatives. In 2020, those alternatives were good but not perfect replacements. With LLMs entering the scene, there are even more open-source alternatives now and they're narrowing the gap between proprietary options. LLMs also got me thinking: will people continue using proprietary or opensource applications in the future when they can build their own personal application tailored specifically for their…
2020 · opensource.builders · its alternatives →
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Hi Hacker News! Shahar and Tal from Keep here. A few months ago, we introduced here at HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34806482) Keep as an “open source alerting CLI” and got some interesting feedback - mainly around UI, automation, and supporting more tools. We were VERY early back then, and we understood that although the current DX around creating alerts is not great, it's not that critical and developers don’t need another tool just for that. But we did find something else. While talking to developers and devops, we found that a lot of companies use many tools…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GitHired▲360Hey HN - today I’m launching GitHired. A hiring platform that ranks developers based on what they actually build — not what they claim on a PDF. It’s called GitHired, and here’s the core idea: GitHub > Resumes Instead of trusting “proficient in React” bullet points, we analyze a candidate’s actual GitHub: their real tech stack their most complex projects how active they are what kinds of contributions they make which skills match your job description and yes, we detect fake “green square farming.” Why we built this Because engineering hiring is broken. Resumes are inflated. Activity charts…
Dec 2025 · githired.tech · its alternatives →
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A faster, more flexible GitHub Enterprise.
2014 · enterprise.github.com · its alternatives →
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Open Source Maintenance as a service
2017 · maintainer.io · its alternatives →
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Code Finder▲255The ultimate search engine for GitHub repositories
2024 · codefinder.dev · its alternatives →
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2018 · youtube.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, Over the past few months we've been building Ringer, an Experts Marketplace focussed on Open Source Software. We want to help make Open Source more sustainable and believe that we can be a part of making that happen. We're approaching this from the perspective of the individual developer - if you contribute to OSS then you can register instantly with your GitHub account and list yourself to provide paid support, knowledge and help for the repositories that you contribute to. We only allow those who we can prove contribute to repositories to list themselves as experts, and show…
2022 · ringerhq.com · its alternatives →
- 18ET
SourceForge mirror of some projects
2015 · a-sf-mirror.github.io · its alternatives →
- 19FM
2017 · forked.yannick.io · its alternatives →
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SourceSort▲114Find the perfect open source projects to contribute to
2019 · sourcesort.com · its alternatives →
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- 23OG
2017 · open-source.now.sh · its alternatives →
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No-fluff guide to building a collaborative development team
2016 · zenhub.com · its alternatives →
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