Fastest-growing OSS startups for every quarter since Q2 2020

What it does

Datasets for the Runa Open Source Startup (ROSS) Index—quarterly top-20 trending open-source startups ranked by GitHub star growth. - RunaCapital/ROSS-Index

Since Q2 2020, the ROSS Index publishes the top open-source startups by the relative growth rate of GitHub stars at their repositories. The calculation of the growth rate starts from the moment when a repo crosses a 1000-star mark, and the results are published every quarter. The purpose of this index is to highlight new, trending open-source startups using a simple and transparent basis. It was created by Konstantin Vinogradov and is maintained by venture capital firm Runa Capital, which has invested early in many OSS startups, including n8n , Nginx , MariaDB , Twenty and Mastra . We chose only one basic metric as, otherwise, it would be hard to verify the index results externally. Any…from github.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Over five years ago, I started publishing the top 20 trending open-source startups every quarter, based on their relative GitHub star growth — the ROSS Index. It has become quite handy for 60K+ developers, founders, and other OSS fans who have visited it to date. To make it even more convenient, we have just…

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