Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to The Git Observatory
GitHub charted as a night sky. Every star is a real star
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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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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GitHub's Constellation: Top 1000 Stellar Projects
2024 · githublb.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Track your favorite Github awesome repos, not just star them
2021 · trackawesomelist.com · its alternatives →
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star-history▲74The missing star history graph of github repos
2019 · star-history.com · 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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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 · 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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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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2024 · starlens.aisprint.dev · its alternatives →
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GitGauge▲3Check if a GitHub repo's stars are real before you commit.
Apr 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · app.tooljet.io · its alternatives →
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Little Star▲78Efficiently and easily manage your GitHub stars
2021 · littlestarcloud.com · its alternatives →
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