Today I finally have the trending open source list I'd been wanting for years with Trendshift's recent releases
Five things I'd gotten tired of with other trending lists out there before:
- The same projects everywhere: X, HN, newsletters, dashboards all surface the same 10 repos for the week
- "Trending" almost always means "most stars gained," which means mature repos cycle forever and actual breakouts get buried
- A repo hits a trending list one day, gone the next, and a week later I can't even remember the name to look it up
- A project is hot and no one tells me why, what's the discussion, what's it replacing, what do people who tried it think
- Topic tags are whatever random words the maintainer typed, so filtering by topic is meaningless.
What Trendshift now offers:
✅ Different ranking per timescale: daily weights momentum and freshness; weekly, monthly, and yearly weight sustained growth.
✅ Each repo shows the discussion driving it, not just the star count.
✅ Historical view: what was trending then, what kept its momentum, what collapsed and when.
✅ Curated topic list with AI classification
The hard part still ahead: making predictions about where projects are headed, and showing the reasoning behind every prediction. Trendshift isn't here to amplify whatever's hyped in the past or now. The goal is a real read on what was, what is, and what's likely next in open source.
Lets see if Trendshift can answer it in the near future 🚀🚀🚀
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