AwesomeTrend: re-rank awesome lists by momentum

Re-ranks awesome-list repos by recent momentum so hidden gems surface

Problem

Developers discovering open source via awesome lists often find them unsorted even alphabetically, let alone by trending stars. Users of popular lists like awesome-selfhosted complain about information overload and struggle to find actively maintained projects.

Solution

Scrapes repos from major awesome lists daily, ranks them by recent star growth and commit activity, and provides a filterable web view by category, language, and last update. Sends a weekly digest.

Users

Open-source enthusiasts, self-hosters, tech leads doing quick vendor selection

MVP

Daily scrape of 20-30 popular awesome lists; score by star velocity, recent commits, issue activity; filterable static site by language/category; daily RSS/email digest; one-click CSV export

Revenue

Free basic ranking plus $5/mo premium for custom watchlists, email push, and export API

Why now

AI coding assistants have multiplied project counts while list maintainers can't keep up; GitHub API makes it cheap for a solo dev to start