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Products that do what StarHog – See who starred your open source project does
Over the weekend, I built a small project to help open-source projects better understand who starred their projects. It helps you see the number of stars per day, week, month etc so you can monitor the health and the general trend as well. Lastly, it lets you fetch their public contact info, if you wish to do so. I initally built it as a Python script but after a few friends said they had the same problem, I decided to make it into a website. Would love to hear what you think!
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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
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2024 · starlens.aisprint.dev
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GitHub profile analysis - Build your embedding from your Stars - Compare and discover popular people with similar interests and share yours - Generate a Skill Radar - Recommend repositories you might like
Jan 2026 · puzer.github.io
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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
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2020 · github.com
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I created a leaderboard showcasing the top 1000 GitHub repositories based on the number of stars. With GitHub hosting over 100 million public repositories, this leaderboard highlights the top 0.001% in terms of the number of stars. Stars might not be the perfect metric for adoption—metrics like the number of monthly downloads could be more accurate—but this list still represents some of the most popular and influential projects in the open-source community. You can check out the leaderboard here: https://githublb.vercel.app/
2024 · githublb.vercel.app
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For the past month, we've been monitoring GitHub's public event stream to catch spam comments and fake stars. Today, the spammers are back. Go check out the damage! You can see the spam comments and which users are posting the spam in real time. Also, here's a post we wrote about how we set it up: https://www.trytrench.com/blog/preventing-spam-and-fake-star...
2024 · play.trytrench.com
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2024 · github.com
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Since everyone seems to be making a github application, I thought I'd share mine. It's an aggregated view of all of a given person's github projects, as well as easyish lookups for linkedin/stackoverflow/hackernews. It attempts to determine both productivity (how much code did this person write?) as well as impact (did anyone care?) I'd love any feedback, but go easy on the number of simultaneous searches as I'm trying to play nice by github's api limits. check it -- http://www.gitalytics.com
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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
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2021 · app.tooljet.io
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2018 · opml.bb8.fun
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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
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