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I Built a JavaScript Tool That Finds Promising GitHub Projects Before I Invest Time in Them

I combined repository activity, release frequency, issue response times, contributor growth, and dependency information into a lightweight research dashboard. I wanted to distinguish repositories experiencing temporary attention from projects that demonstrate sustained engineering work, especially in the growing ecosystem of AI coding agents and developer tools.

Dr.Michael

13 min read15 hours ago

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I have a habit of discovering interesting GitHub repositories, opening their source code, reading the README, checking the commit history, and imagining what I could build with them.

Sometimes I find a genuinely useful project.

Other times, I find a repository with thousands of stars, an impressive demo, and very little evidence that the software is being maintained.

That second category is more common than I…