I launched trendshift.io in 2023 as a tool to help discover popular repositories and learn from projects featured on GitHub Trending. Over time, however, I found it increasingly difficult to find the most interesting and newest projects using the existing pages, as they no longer met my evolving expectations.

Some challenges

Many great open source projects repeatedly appear on GitHub Trending, but I need a way to surface repositories I haven’t come across yet.

Some repositories once trended and were actively maintained for a period before gradually losing momentum. I want to quickly assess whether a repository is still popular, continues to receive contributions, and is actively maintained.

Technology evolves rapidly. Sometimes I simply want to find projects created within the last five years, the past year, or even just the last few months.

The “Repository Engagements” Page

To address these needs, I’ve launched a new page: Repository Engagements.

Trendshift.io now continuously pulls data from GitHub and stores the monthly activity of tracked repositories. Including stars, forks, merged PRs, issues and closed issues. You can now view the top 10 repositories each month based on selected filters, including the option to only show repositories created after a specified date. This provides a quick overview of active, popular, or newly created repositories featured in GitHub Trending each month.

Additionally, every repository tracked in the database now features a Monthly Activity Chart on its detail page. This makes it easy to understand a project’s engagement over time and determine whether it remains relevant, popular, and actively maintained.

And that’s not all the features

I do have a few more ideas that I’m excited to build:

I don’t need to explore every repository, but I would like to group or bookmark certain repositories so I can follow them more easily. It would be even better if I could write notes or record my own thoughts about these open source projects. 1.

A more comprehensive search feature: how about a page that allows searching all recorded trending repositories using custom filters? Perhaps we could even save those filters and use them to build a personalised dashboard. 1.

A way to quickly compare different repositories, especially when deciding which packages to use.

Can’t wait to share more. Happy digging: https://trendshift.io/repository-engagements