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.
   🔗 Link - finder.eddiehub.io
   

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.
   🔗 Link - github.com/search/advanced
   

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.
   🔗 Link - github.com/topics/javascript
   

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.
   🔗 Link - good-first-issue
   

5. Scoutflo Atlas
   A curated list of BEST open source projects for Hacktoberfest 2023!
   🔗 Link - atlas.scoutflo.com/hacktoberfest
   

6. Quine
   It will find the repos with most good starter issues for you in your chosen languages and topics.
   🔗 Link - https://quine.sh/contribute
   
   I hope you have a great time contributing this year. Good luck!

Comments

[Bull]

Awesome article.

[Pradumna Saraf]

Thank you, Bull

[Anietie Brownson]

Nice article 👍

[Pradumna Saraf]

Thank you.

[Dumebi Okolo]

Thanks for sharing!

[Pradumna Saraf]

Thank you.

[Devanshukoli]

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

[Pradumna Saraf]

Thank you, Dev

[Bap]

Hey there! Thanks for the mention of Quine. 🫶

[Pradumna Saraf]

Welcome :)

[Johannes]

Great write up!! :)

[Pradumna Saraf]

Thank you, Jojannes.

[Rahul]

The Discord server of Hacktoberfest is also great to find repos

[Nirjas Jakilim]

Thanks for this awesome article. Happy hacktoberfest!

[Nischal Jain]

You can also checkout firstissue.dev

[Mitchell Mutandah]

Great article! Thank you.