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Pradumna Saraf
Pradumna Saraf

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Top ways to find projects for Hacktoberfest 2023

Hacktoberfest 2023 is here, and there's always a common question regarding the contributors: How can one find projects for Hacktoberfest 2023?

In this article, we will explore some tools as well as built-in GitHub functionalities to find great projects.

  1. Finder by EddieHub Community
    It finds good first issues from all over GitHub and gives you a list of them. You can further filter down the issues by clicking on the labels.
    ๐Ÿ”— Link - finder.eddiehub.io
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  2. GitHub's advanced search. GitHub advanced search provides tons of filters to find repos and issues according to our preferences. You can filter by language, extension, issue labels, number of stars/forks, etc.
    ๐Ÿ”— Link - github.com/search/advanced
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  3. GitHub Topics
    It's a very cool feature on GitHub. With the help of this, you can find a particular project with a topic. The topic can be languages, events, tech, etc.
    ๐Ÿ”— Link - github.com/topics/javascript
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  4. Good First Issue label
    good first issue is the best way to start your Open Source journey. You can find all of these on GitHub by doing a label search.
    ๐Ÿ”— Link - good-first-issue
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  5. Scoutflo Atlas
    A curated list of BEST open source projects for Hacktoberfest 2023!
    ๐Ÿ”— Link - atlas.scoutflo.com/hacktoberfest
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  6. Quine
    It will find the repos with most good starter issues for you in your chosen languages and topics.
    ๐Ÿ”— Link - https://quine.sh/contribute
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    I hope you have a great time contributing this year. Good luck!

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Johannes โ€ข

Great write up!! :)

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Pradumna Saraf โ€ข

Thank you, Jojannes.

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Bull โ€ข

Awesome article.

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Pradumna Saraf โ€ข

Thank you, Bull

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Anietie Brownson โ€ข

Nice article ๐Ÿ‘

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Pradumna Saraf โ€ข

Thank you.

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Devanshukoli โ€ข

Great Article. I find it really helpful. Since I was wondering that There is lots of project.

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Pradumna Saraf โ€ข

Thank you, Dev

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Bap โ€ข

Hey there! Thanks for the mention of Quine. ๐Ÿซถ

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Pradumna Saraf โ€ข

Welcome :)

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Rahul โ€ข

The Discord server of Hacktoberfest is also great to find repos

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Dumebi Okolo โ€ข

Thanks for sharing!

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Pradumna Saraf โ€ข

Thank you.

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Madhu Saini โ€ข

Great blog, Pradumna!!
This is really very helpful, I'm getting lots of DM that how can they find repos to contribute so, I've shared your blog link to all of them.

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Nischal Jain โ€ข

You can also checkout firstissue.dev

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Nwakaego-Ego โ€ข

This is really helpful. Thank you Pradumna

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