// open source is more than stars
SilentStars tracks 342 open source projects that are actively built but chronically undervalued. No hype. No trending algorithms. Just signal.
Highest signal-to-reach ratio β building more than their audience knows.
Thriving JI 
PY This repository manages the infrastructure for my personal servers (mail server, blog, supporting services) using Ansible. Focus on reproducibility, minimal manual intervention and secure defaults.
Thriving 
TS Open-source, self-hostable deployment platform. Deploy Git apps, Docker Compose, databases, and static sites to your own servers, the open alternative to Vercel/Heroku.
Quiet 
GO Prevent Windows from sleeping with silent mouse and keyboard simulation. Lightweight, no-telemetry, 8 languages.
Thriving 
C+ Repository for the lifecycle feature
Thriving TS C+ play at https://gimhol.github.io/Little-Fighter-Wemake/
Thriving 
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JS Source code for sahilrajput.com β my personal tech blog and notes hub featuring essays, productivity tools, programming resources, links, and more, built to share thoughts, learning resources, and code.
Thriving TS Promise-based password confirmation wrapper for Nextcloud https://npmjs.org/@nextcloud/password-confirmation
Thriving TS Seize Platform - Backend
Thriving 
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CS DataPass
5+ releases in 90 days β these teams don't stop.
Thriving TS The AI workspace where teams share agents, skills and automations that the whole company builds on.
Thriving 
RS Standalone automatically updated mirror of OpenAI Codex apply-patch
Thriving MD HT l0g website
Newborn JS Windows local-first file organizer and media catalog with MCP tools for AI assistants. Supports verified batch archiving of local files, media library building, and AI access through MCP.
Newborn PY Regression testing for LLM applications β with the baseline in your repository, not on someone's server.
Thriving PY One-click DLSS 5 Neural Rendering manager for PC. Swapper, Feeder, OptiScaler, RenoDX, Multipass, ReShade, F8 overlay. Works on RTX 20/30/40/50, AMD RDNA, Intel Arc. DX8-12, Vulkan, OpenGL, emulators.
The maintainer labelled the door open. Time to walk in.
Thriving PY Generates python code representing a puzzle
Thriving TS HT Itqan CMS β Quranic Content Management System β Frontend
Thriving HT TypeScript and Rust monorepo: Claude Code and Pi coding-agent plugins, a minimal MCP stdio server framework, custom oxlint plugins and a pluggable Rust linter, policy-aware git tooling, core TS libraries, Wayland desktop apps (GTK4 file manager, Slint terminal, true-peak music player), OpenTofu infra automation, and a personal site.
Thriving PY Run Claude Code, Codex, and any Omnigent agent with superior security, resiliency, and observability.
Thriving 
C C Compiler for MC6800 (fork from chibicc)
Quiet PY A simple, developer-friendly library to create Matrix bots.
Thriving PY Toolkit for evaluation of weather and climate models.
Thriving 
KT A privacy centric system for cross publisher, cross media ads measurement through secure multiparty computations.
Newborn PY Governance-as-code for AI coding agents: author a policy once, enforce it on every agent (Claude, Copilot, Cursor, Codex) via git hooks, CI, and native controls.
Thriving TS Weather Map Layer for MapLibre/Mapbox GL JS powered by Open-Meteo OMfiles
Thriving C+ conan.io reStructuredText documentation
Thriving TS The UI of the Kaoto project
Thriving PY Live index of Claude Code extensions, hooks, and plugins β refreshed every 15 minutes from GitHub
Thriving PY Live index of LLM evaluation tools and benchmarks, refreshed every 15 minutes from GitHub
Healthy project, overwhelmed solo team. Worth saving.
Thriving GO Open Source software factory.
Thriving RS Bamboo β a local-first Rust agent harness and runtime with sessions, tools, skills, MCP, sub-agents, workflows, schedules, and context assembly over HTTP, SSE, and WebSocket.
Thriving 
SW Tiling that feels like it shipped with macOS. Settings instead of config files, seven layouts incl. PaperWM-style scrolling, native Desktops kept intact, Lua underneath. Accessibility only, never SIP.
Thriving TS The code-first TypeScript CMS for any runtime.
Thriving C+ Lightweight zero-copy decentralized graph-based networking protocol for AI era
Newborn GO Per-core Curve Optimizer tuning for Zen 5 desktop CPUs on NixOS
Newborn GO Provision and operate HashiCorp Nomad clusters on cloud providers: kops for Nomad. Vultr first.
Thriving TS An experiment in building modern marine charts. Currently alpha and not to be use for navigation.
Thriving GO Drive Pi entirely from XMPP.
One person carrying it all. No team. No VC. Just commits.
Thriving TS 
VU A project for editing Unifont glyphs in browsers.
Thriving AP Test of http://mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/justdomains
Thriving R BugSigDB data files
Thriving 
C# An Asheron's Call Decal plugin. Displays character status, buffs, and progression, along with quest details, exploration markers, titles, and Void Mage DoT timers.
Thriving LE GitHub Action which automatically updates Lean projects
Thriving RS Rich Presence for Github
Thriving GO TS Croupier is a universal GM (Game Master) backend system designed for game operations. It supports integration with multi-language game servers and provides a unified management interface along with powerful extensibility.
Thriving GO Nakama, with EchoVR protocol support
Thriving IL VE Yosys SystemVerilog Synthesis that matches Verilator (RTL matches gate-level simulation)
5+ years old and still committing. Resilience over hype.
Thriving PY La rΓ©glementation environnementale pour les projets d'amΓ©nagement, de construction et les travaux sur haies
Thriving PY Argopy API status
Thriving PY Tweets about upcoming brazilian Smash Ultimate tournaments and results
Thriving PY HT ArcadeDB Documentation
Thriving 
JV Klass is Statistics Norway's system for classifications and code lists.
Thriving JV Encryption and decryption gui
Thriving JV APAW. Arquitectura y Patrones Web. MΓ‘ster en IngenierΓa Web
Thriving PY Bikeshed datafiles and scripts to update them.
Thriving TS A standard logging system for all platforms
More forks than stars β used as a building block, not just bookmarked.
Thriving 
LU LibCustomIcons is a lightweight library for The Elder Scrolls Online that allows custom icons for players.
Thriving RS Internal Git infrastructure, experiments, and foundational components for Git-compatible monorepo systems
Thriving TS Bittensor didn't ship with a map. We drew one β chain-direct block explorer, developer registry, and an agent toolkit built right in.
Thriving HT TS An AI-powered product that helps young children learn foundational numeracy through gradual, fun activities β taking concepts to students effectively.
Thriving 
PH To make changes to the wiki, please request PR. (It does not work for translations.)
Thriving 
SH PY Custom ROM builder and some features based on many projects such as UNICA, Legacy-UI, and AstroRom.
Thriving TS A SignalK plugin that provides tidal predictions for the vessel's position from various online sources.
Thriving TS A place to store JSON lists for different purposes.
Thriving MD Source for the official Midnight developer documentation site (docs.midnight.network), built with Docusaurus.
Devs are tracking these before the public notices.
Watched C# Commitments API for the Apprenticeship Service
Watched TS Provides an overview of P&E services and related metadata
Watched JS A collection of client side patterns for faster and easier web development
Thriving GO Helm deployment charts for Wikimedia. Mirror from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/operations/deployment-charts - our actual code is hosted with Gerrit (please see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing)
Financially supported. Committed to shipping long-term.
Thriving PY π Lightweight package that makes it easy to submit URLs to the IndexNow API of Bing, Yandex, DuckDuckGo, and other search engines π
Thriving PY Github Homepage
Thriving GO TS SRAT (SambaNAS REST Administration Tool) is a new system designed to provide a simplified user interface for configuring SAMBA. It has been developed to work within Home Assistant.
Thriving MA JS π Uptime monitor and status page for Open Food Facts, powered by @upptime
Thriving TS http://putout.cloudcmd.io/
Thriving TS A comprehensive TypeScript library for SEO analysis, content optimization, and meta tag generation with AI-powered suggestions.
Thriving JS SWADE Ultimate Condition Changer
Thriving TS Patch, parse and stringify TOML while preserving comments, whitespace and formatting.
Thriving JS cables user interface
Under 100 stars. Documented. Alive. Look closer.
Quiet TS JS The webpage source code for the Brainrot esoteric programming language
Thriving JS ποΈ Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for SQL Server integration with Warp terminal. Execute queries, explore schemas, export data, and analyze performance with natural language commands.
Thriving PO GraphTools is a comprehensive PowerShell module designed to simplify and automate the administration, auditing, and reporting of Microsoft Entra ID environments by leveraging the Microsoft Graph API.
Thriving TS This is the monorepo of the Sokosumi Marketplace, the web-app is built with Next.js and TypeScript, with a strong focus on UX and security
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Thriving PY JU An integrated software for the cellular and circuit physiology of visual processing during behavior --- :movie_camera: :wrench: :minidisc:
Thriving TS Open source, self-hosted GitHub orchestration for AI coding agents. Runs Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, OpenCode and Mistral Vibe on your server and ships every change as a reviewed pull request: issue to PR, AI code review, automated fix loops.
Thriving RS TS Local-first knowledge base with semantic search for AI coding assistants. Fewer tokens, faster context.
Thriving JU Definition and review of CDDS mappings for CMIP7
Born in the last 2 months, committed in the last 2 weeks β fragile, alive, worth watching.
Newborn JS SO Automated trading bot for Ethereum with gas preview, router support and terminal menu.
Newborn SW Use a reMarkable as a pressure-sensitive drawing tablet on macOS
Newborn GO What to image tonight: ranks deep sky targets and comets for your location, weather, Moon and telescope
Newborn TS Your agent, on your phone. A native Android app for Hermes Agent, running entirely on-device (Termux).
Newborn SW A lightweight native Gmail client for macOS. No Electron, no bloat.
Newborn KT Unofficial Android companion app for Samsung Galaxy Fit3.
Newborn TS Teloa Community β AI-Native Team Studio
Newborn TE Daily curated AI safety selections and paper lists (md / bib / json) with Agent setup guide Β· AI Safety HOT
Newborn SH Two Agent Skills that help an AI agent make an interface clear, consistent, easy to use and scalable, and Russian text clear and correct (English version planned), without the signs of AI-generated work. They work in Claude, Codex, Cursor and other compatible agents.
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How much a project earns versus how much attention it actually gets. Above 50 means the work is outrunning its audience. Recomputed nightly from commit velocity, contributor effort, issue resolution, fork utility, release cadence, and project maturity β divided by a logarithmic reach factor.
score = signal / reach
signal = 0.25Β·commit_velocity // commits in last 90 days (cap 30)
+ 0.20Β·contributor_work // unique authors Γ velocity (cap 100)
+ 0.20Β·issue_resolution // closed Γ· total issues
+ 0.20Β·fork_ratio // forks Γ· stars (proxy for real usage)
+ 0.10Β·release_cadence // releases in 90 days (cap 3)
+ age_bonus // +0 to +0.30 after 6 months
+ homepage_bonus // +0.05 if homepage is set
reach = logββ(stars + watchers + 10)β Is the project alive and maintained right now? A 0β100 pulse recomputed nightly from commit recency, rhythm, how fast issues close, and how quickly PRs get merged.
health = 0.35Β·recency // days since last commit (90d decay)
+ 0.25Β·cadence // commit rhythm consistency
+ 0.20Β·issue_health // closed Γ· total issues
+ 0.20Β·pr_health // merged Γ· total PRsβ The colour and label on every card come straight from the health score.
Healthy 80 β 100 active, responsive, regular releases
Stable 60 β 79 maintained, steady, no alarms
Quiet 40 β 59 slowing down β watch this one
At Risk 0 β 39 going dark Β· candidate for rescueβ Tags are independent behavioral signals computed nightly. A project can hold multiple at once. They drive the home page sections.
solo_builder one person holds > 80% of commits (last 180d)
needs_contributors has open "help wanted" or "good first issue" labels
hidden_gem < 100 stars Β· active in last 3 months Β· documented
legacy_hero repo > 5 years old Β· committed this year
fork_magnet forks/stars > 0.5 Β· used as template or dependency
release_machine 5+ releases in the last 90 days
under_pressure > 10 open issues Β· β€ 2 contributors Β· health β₯ 60
community_watch watchers > stars Β· devs tracking before the public
community_hub GitHub Discussions enabled Β· > 20 discussions
funded maintainer has active funding channelβ Stars are an outcome, not effort. A project with 8 stars and daily commits is doing more interesting work than one coasting on 8k. We measure the building, then divide by the attention already received β so the genuinely undervalued rise to the top.
// stars = lagging indicator
// commits = leading indicator
// we rank by the leading oneβ