GitHub stars are a terrible way to discover anything.
By the time a repo has 20k stars, it's not a discovery, it's a press release. Stars pile onto whatever already trended, and the genuinely interesting stuff, the weird little library someone's polished for six months, sits at 40 stars because nobody's pointed a flashlight at it.
I kept finding those projects accidentally and thinking there should be a better front door for them. So I built one.
GitGem surfaces open source that's gaining real momentum, not just stuff that's already huge. There's a trending feed you can filter by language and time, daily charts with rank movement, topic pages, and a curated layer for things that are great but will never trend.
It's in beta, so I'd genuinely love feedback on:
- Does the feed surface stuff you find interesting, or the same repos you'd see everywhere?
- Anything slow, broken, or confusing?
- Could you generate a badge for your repo? https://gitgem.org/badge
And if you maintain a repo you're proud of, you can add it to the showcase.. It's exactly the kind of project the site exists to put in front of people.
Tear it apart in the comments. 🙏
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