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24 alternatives to StarHog – See who starred your open source project

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!

StarHog is a tool for open-source project maintainers to track and analyze who has starred their repositories. It displays star counts broken down by day, week, and month to help monitor project health and growth… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. StarHog – See who starred your open source project launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    AI Copilot, but for git history

    2024 · 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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    The missing star history graph of github repos

    2019 · star-history.com · its alternatives →

  4. 4WD
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    StarLens▲160

    What do your GitHub stars say about you?

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    :sparkles: Browse trending GitHub projects from your command line - GitHub - hedyhli/starcli: :sparkles: Browse trending GitHub projects from your command line

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    StarCLI▲58

    CLI for browsing trending github repos by stars

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Manage your GitHub stars like a pro.

    2022 · starorder.app · its alternatives →

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    Your open source journey stars here

    2025 · stargazerapp.vercel.app · 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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    Hubble▲84

    Github stars management tool

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Public datsets made with https://getomni.ai/. Contribute to getomni-ai/datasets development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Efficiently and easily manage your GitHub stars

    2021 · littlestarcloud.com · its alternatives →

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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 · its alternatives →

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    Connecting open-source collaborators & maintainers

    2023 · its alternatives →

  16. 16FI
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    GitRanks▲127

    Hi HN, I built GitRanks because I’ve always wanted a clear, fun way to see how my open-source work compares - both globally and right here at home. The app pulls in GitHub data to give every developer an at-a-glance “scorecard”, then rolls those into live leaderboards so you can: - Track rankings by stars, contributions and followers - Filter worldwide vs. your own country - Refresh daily - no waiting weeks to see your progress - Discover rising devs you’ve never heard of and follow their work Tech Stack: - Back: MongoDB | NestJS | BullMQ | GraphQL - Front: Next.js | Tailwind | Shadcn Data:…

    2025 · gitranks.com · its alternatives →

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    Discover your developer personality

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Track your favorite Github awesome repos, not just star them

    2021 · trackawesomelist.com · its alternatives →

  20. 20SR

    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 →

  21. 21OG
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    GitTags▲92

    Tag your GitHub repos, gists, and stars

    2020 · gittags.app · its alternatives →

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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 · 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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