Open-Source Early Radar

Surface genuinely new open-source projects and their earliest users for maintainers

Problem

GitHub Trending is homogeneous and systematically spotting emerging open-source projects is hard; some authors already scrape GitHub plus HN, Reddit and X mentions to do it, but ordinary maintainers lack the time and plumbing to build that pipeline.

Solution

A subscription radar that aggregates fresh GitHub repos with mentions across HN and Reddit, flags projects whose discussion is spiking while stars are still low, and adds short summaries and active contributor lists so authors can decide whom to watch, partner with, or promote.

Users

Open-source maintainers, DevRel people, and technical scouts who want early exposure to new projects

MVP

Crawl new repos and mentions; rank by mention velocity rather than stars; weekly email digest; detail page showing discussion sources and contributors

Revenue

Free weekly digest capped; paid tier for custom keyword monitoring, Slack alerts and team seats

Why now

AI accelerated release cadence, making filtering essential; existing indie projects show the crawl-and-summarize approach is buildable solo