Trending has no memory
GitHub Trending shows roughly 25 repos, resets daily, and keeps no history. Miss a Thursday and that repository simply never existed as far as you're concerned. There's no way to say "keep this one where I can find it."
The problem
A star count is a lifetime total. It never tells you what's happening now.
GitHub's headline number only ever goes up. It counts a star from 2019 exactly the same as one from this morning, which means a repository can be dead for two years and still outrank the thing that's replacing it. Discovery built on that number is discovery pointed at the past.
Stars are purchasable
A few dollars buys thousands of stars from accounts created the same week. The graph looks like a rocket. The contributor list is one person and the issue tracker is empty. Raw counts cannot tell you the difference — and by the time you can, you've written code against it.
Picking wrong is expensive
Choosing an unmaintained dependency doesn't hurt on day one. It hurts in month six, when you hit a bug nobody has answered, the maintainer's last commit is 14 months old, and the migration off it is a week of work you didn't plan for.
Sorted by stars
The past
1
legacy-labs/starfieldLast commit 19 months ago · 2 contributors
48.2k
+31
2
growthkit/boostr9.1k stars in 4 days · 1 contributor · no issues
11.4k
+9.1k
3
corevm/runtime-x62 contributors · 240 commits this month
3.9k
+1.8k
What a star sort gives you. An abandoned project in first place, a purchased spike in second, and the thing you should actually be looking at buried underneath both.
RepoVelocity · 30 days
Right now
1
corevm/runtime-x62 contributors · 240 commits this month
verified
+86%
2
legacy-labs/starfieldLast commit 19 months ago · 2 contributors
watch
+0.1%
—
growthkit/boostrFiltered out — star curve inconsistent with activity
suspect
hidden
What momentum plus Signal Score gives you. The same three repositories, re-ordered by what's actually happening — and the bought one flagged and filtered before you ever click it. Free, no account needed.
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Most of this site is free, and we'd rather say so plainly.
The ranking engine, the credibility scoring and every filter are open to anyone with a browser — no account, no email, no trial clock. Sign in with GitHub, still free, and you also get watchlists, folders, and hourly tracking on repositories of your own. Membership exists for one specific moment: when the free top 100 stops being deep enough, and three tracked repositories stop being enough.
What you get, and what it costs
Three things a bookmark folder will never do for you.
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Keep the shortlist that's currently living in 40 open tabs.
Bookmark a repo and it goes into a folder you named — Evaluating for Q3, Rust HTTP stack, things my CTO keeps mentioning. It's the same list next week, on your laptop and your phone, with live momentum numbers attached to every row instead of a dead URL.
The point isn't storage. It's that your list keeps updating itself. Open it in a month and you can see, in one glance, which of your candidates kept climbing and which quietly stalled out. Bookmarks and folders both come with a free account.
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Eval · Q312
AI tooling23
New folder
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hyperium/hyperSaved 6 weeks ago · still climbing
verified
+12%
★
tokio-rs/axumSaved 6 weeks ago · accelerating
verified
+31%
★
quiet-fork/tide-nextSaved 6 weeks ago · momentum fading
watch
−4%
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Track the repos that matter to you, not just the ones that made a board.
Your own project. A competitor's. The internal-ish tool your team depends on that will never chart. Paste owner/repo or a github.com link and RepoVelocity starts collecting hourly snapshots for it — the same momentum maths, applied to your list instead of ours.
Which also means you can finally answer "is our repo growing faster than theirs?" with a curve rather than a feeling. Three slots come with a free account; membership raises it to 25.
Track a repo
Free · 3 slots
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rival
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The interesting stuff is rarely in the top ten.
Everyone gets the top 100 of every board — which is genuinely a lot, and it's where the consensus picks live. But consensus picks are the ones your competitors already found. Rank 340 on the 30-day growth board is where a two-month-old project with 61 contributors is quietly compounding.
Membership removes the cap. Every board scrolls to its full depth, with the same filters, the same Signal Score, the same hourly refresh. This is the thing you're actually paying for — that, and the jump from 3 tracked repositories to 25.
Growth · 30 days
Membership
99
okteto/pipeline-lite18 contributors · 3 months old
normal
+44%
100
vellum-io/schema-drift31 contributors · 5 months old
verified
+41%
101
ferrous/edge-cache27 contributors · 2 months old
verified
+39%
102
plainkit/obsv44 contributors · 7 months old
verified
+38%
103
hansa/queue-rs61 contributors · 2 months old
verified
+37%
That's the free top 100
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Two rows differ. We've highlighted them rather than padding the table to make the paid column look busier than it is.
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| Hourly re-ranked boards | ✓ | ✓ |
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| All time windows & ranking models | ✓ | ✓ |
| Category, language & age filters | ✓ | ✓ |
| Growth-curve comparison | ✓ | ✓ |
| Saved bookmarks | ✓ | ✓ |
| Folders | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Custom repositories tracked | 3 | 25 |
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Questions
The things worth asking before you hand over $7.
What do I get without paying anything?
Without an account: every ranking board, Signal Score credibility bands, all filters, growth-curve comparison, and the top 100 of each board. With a free account on top of that: saved bookmarks, folders to organise them, and hourly tracking for 3 repositories of your own choosing. None of that expires or asks for a card.
So what does membership actually unlock?
Two things, and we'd rather be specific than vague about it. It removes the rank-100 cap so every board scrolls to its full depth, and it raises custom repository tracking from 3 to 25. If neither of those limits is bothering you yet, the honest advice is to stay on the free plan until one does.
Do I need a credit card to sign up?
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What exactly is a Signal Score?
A credibility measure built from four checks per repository: contributor spread, commit cadence, issue and pull request activity, and the shape of the star curve against the underlying work. Each repository lands in a band — verified, normal, watch or suspect. A repo whose stars arrive in a vertical line while its contributor count stays at one gets flagged, and suspect repositories are hidden from the boards by default. More on how it works →
Can I cancel? What happens to my saved lists?
Cancel any time from the Stripe customer portal. You keep member access to the end of the period you've already paid for, then drop back to the free plan. Your bookmarks and folders are unaffected either way — they're free-account features, not membership ones, so there's nothing to lose by cancelling. If you were tracking more than 3 repositories, those stay stored; you just can't add past the free allowance again until you rejoin.
What do you actually store about me?
Your GitHub user id, handle, display name, avatar URL and email, plus whatever you choose to save. Sessions are opaque random tokens and only their SHA-256 hash is ever written to the database, so a stolen dump can't be replayed as a login. Card details never touch our servers — Stripe holds those. Full detail in the privacy policy.
Why $7 and not free-with-ads?
Because ads would change what gets ranked. The entire value of this site is that the ordering is a function of the data and nothing else — the moment a repository can pay to move up, the boards are worth nothing. Membership money keeps the incentives pointed the same direction as yours.
Is this useful if I'm not a full-time engineer?
Yes — arguably more so. If you're building fast with AI assistance, your stack choices carry more risk, not less, because you're shipping on libraries you haven't read line by line. Picking ones with real contributor depth means the answers, examples and fixes you'll need actually exist when you go looking.
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