About Hacktoberfest
If you are a frequent visitor of this site there's a high probability you've heard about Hacktoberfest. It's a month-long challenge to celebrate the open-source community.
And the best of it? There's a prize! Let's see that in the organizers' words:
To qualify for the official limited edition Hacktoberfest shirt, you must register and then make four pull requests (PRs) between October 1-31 (in any time zone). PRs can be made to any public repo on GitHub, not only the ones with issues labeled Hacktoberfest. If a maintainer reports your pull request as invalid or behavior not in line with the project’s code of conduct, you will be ineligible to participate. This year, the first 50,000 participants who successfully complete the challenge will earn a T-shirt.
Finding repositories to work on
I know from experience how hard is to find repositories and issues for your first contributions. Fortunately, there are some excellent tips and guides on the program's details page for beginners.
If you're a more experienced developer there's a chance you want to find interesting projects you've never heard of. I've made a little tool to help you with that.
Randomrepo.com
Randomrepo.com is a filterable database of Github repositories over 1000 stars. The projects you find there already got some traction and proved to be useful for a lot of people.
On every page refresh, you get one random repository matching the filters. You can filter the repositories either by the number of stars or by its main programming language.
It's a little side project of mine that still requires some tweaking but I thought it might be helpful this month.
Feel free to add any comments regarding Randomrepo or Hacktoberfest below.
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