// open source is more than stars

Not famous. Not abandoned. Just building.

SilentStars tracks 293 open source projects that are actively built but chronically undervalued. No hype. No trending algorithms. Just signal.

293 projects tracked
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288 actively building
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216 solo builders
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★ 11.1k combined stars

// Top picks

Highest signal-to-reach ratio — building more than their audience knows.

Quiet Quiet Go GO
58
OpenAlive opn-build/OpenAlive

Prevent Windows from sleeping with silent mouse and keyboard simulation. Lightweight, no-telemetry, 8 languages.

HEALTH 61 / Stable
// solo// hidden gem// release machine
Thriving Thriving Python PY HTML HT
94
envergo MTES-MCT/envergo

La réglementation environnementale pour les projets d'aménagement, de construction et les travaux sur haies

HEALTH 98 / Healthy
// hidden gem// legacy hero// fork magnet
Thriving Thriving C++ C+
90
libtracer avatarsd-llc/libtracer

Lightweight zero-copy decentralized graph-based networking protocol for AI era

HEALTH 99 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem// release machine// under pressure
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// Shipping

5+ releases in 90 days — these teams don't stop.

Quiet Quiet Python PY
38
ha-world-cup-2026 Adya84/ha-world-cup-2026

⚽ Home Assistant World Cup 2026 integration with live fixtures, results, standings, statistics, predictions and a ready-to-import dashboard.

HEALTH 87 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem// funded// release machine
Newborn Newborn Kotlin KT
42
legadoC CCSSNE/legadoC

阅读Color 主打优化听书体验操作和界面向番茄靠齐。 书架升级,操作升级,书源融合,AI 净化,UI 升级 ,多媒体插入,Ai生图,发现页升级 好用点点star谢谢喵

HEALTH 100 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem// release machine
Thriving Thriving Swift SW Shell SH
55
vision-ocr charlesapetersen/vision-ocr

Make scanned PDFs searchable on your Mac. Download, drag, open — nothing else to install. Uses Apple's Vision OCR and writes a text layer that actually selects.

HEALTH 80 / Healthy
// solo// release machine
Thriving Thriving Dart DA Rust RS
61
gore dh0er/gore

Gothic Remake Savegame Editor

HEALTH 100 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem// release machine

// Help wanted

The maintainer labelled the door open. Time to walk in.

Thriving Thriving Kotlin KT
62
myplanet open-learning-exchange/myplanet

🌕 myPlanet android app reads data from 🌎 for offline use as well as it collect usage data and sends them back to the Planet.

HEALTH 98 / Healthy
// solo// help wanted// hidden gem// legacy hero// fork magnet
Thriving Thriving Shell SH Python PY
53
tunaOS tuna-os/tunaOS

Bringing a modern cloud-native experience to the Enterprise Linux Desktop

HEALTH 94 / Healthy
// help wanted// hidden gem// funded
Thriving Thriving Rust RS Kotlin KT
51
inkread j-raghavan/inkread

A Supernote friendly Rust e-ink reader with first-class handwriting

HEALTH 93 / Healthy
// solo// help wanted// hidden gem// release machine// under pressure
Thriving Thriving Python PY
50
Metasweeper eee555/Metasweeper

元扫雷v3.3.4 —— 包含无猜、可猜模式,录像播放器及插件系统的现代化专业扫雷版本

HEALTH 95 / Healthy
// help wanted// legacy hero

// Under pressure

Healthy project, overwhelmed solo team. Worth saving.

Newborn Newborn Python PY JavaScript JS
28
fermata sirged/fermata

Self-hosted sheet music server: organize, search, and practice from your own library — PDF reader plus interactive notation/tab rendering

HEALTH 87 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem// under pressure

// Solo builders

One person carrying it all. No team. No VC. Just commits.

Thriving Thriving C# C#
85
OracleOfDereth advis61/OracleOfDereth

An Asheron's Call Decal plugin. Displays character status, buffs, and progression, along with quest details, exploration markers, titles, and Void Mage DoT timers.

HEALTH 98 / Healthy
// solo
Thriving Thriving IL VE
85
uhdm2rtlil alainmarcel/uhdm2rtlil

Yosys SystemVerilog Parser - UHDM 2 RTLIL Yosys Pass. Highest ranking complex SystemVerilog 2 functional gate-level netlist flow for Yosys compilation

HEALTH 100 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem
Thriving Thriving AS TypeScript TS
82
Awesome-IIUM IIUMstudent/Awesome-IIUM

Welcome to our awesome list of IIUM university resources! This curated collection includes websites, articles, and other information relevant to students, faculty, and the IIUM community. It's organized by category and includes descriptions of each resource. If you have any suggestions for additional resources to include, please let us know!

HEALTH 97 / Healthy
// solo
Thriving Thriving Java JV
82
yosql metio/yosql

zero dependency database access for java

HEALTH 99 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem// legacy hero// funded
Thriving Thriving HTML HT
82
XposedOrNot-Website XposedOrNot/XposedOrNot-Website

XposedOrNot: A digital security platform offering extensive data breach monitoring and alerts, robust privacy tools, and a community-driven approach for enhancing information security awareness and education.

HEALTH 97 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem

// Legacy heroes

5+ years old and still committing. Resilience over hype.

// Fork magnets

More forks than stars — used as a building block, not just bookmarked.

Thriving Thriving Rust RS
82
git-internal libra-tools/git-internal

Internal Git infrastructure, experiments, and foundational components for Git-compatible monorepo systems

HEALTH 89 / Healthy
// hidden gem// release machine// fork magnet
Thriving Thriving TypeScript TS
74
metagraphed JSONbored/metagraphed

Bittensor didn't ship with a map. We drew one — chain-direct block explorer, developer registry, and an agent toolkit built right in.

HEALTH 99 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem// funded// release machine// fork magnet
Thriving Thriving Python PY
78
HasiiMusicBot hasindu-nagolla/HasiiMusicBot

An advanced Telegram Music Bot written in Python. Experience high-quality audio streaming, YouTube, Spotify and live radio playback, queue management, and multi-language support for Telegram voice chats using Pyrogram and PyTgCalls.

HEALTH 89 / Healthy
// solo// fork magnet
Thriving Thriving HTML HT
78
WanderLust koushik369mondal/WanderLust

Wanderlust is an open-source travel sharing platform where users explore, add, and review destinations. Built with Node.js, Express, EJS, and MongoDB. Part of GSSoC'25 — contributions welcome.

HEALTH 96 / Healthy
// hidden gem// fork magnet

// Watched

Devs are tracking these before the public notices.

// Funded

Financially supported. Committed to shipping long-term.

Thriving Thriving JavaScript JS
75
scroll-of-fire ssnfts24/scroll-of-fire

Living architecture of resonance. The Scroll of Fire Codex. A self-evolving manuscript blending physics, frequency, consciousness, and code into one harmonic system.

HEALTH 88 / Healthy
// funded
Thriving Thriving Shell SH
63
xfiles gioxx/xfiles

Le liste NoAds filtrano la pubblicità sul web e migliorano la tua navigazione. Scopri di più navigando sul sito web ufficiale.

HEALTH 100 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem// legacy hero// funded

// Hidden gems

Under 100 stars. Documented. Alive. Look closer.

Thriving Thriving C++ C+
82
TablePilot Phoenix0531-sudo/TablePilot

TablePilot:本地优先的复杂表格智能分析工作台 | Local-first messy table analysis workbench for repair plans, insights, and explainable reports

HEALTH 98 / Healthy
// hidden gem// release machine
Thriving Thriving TypeScript TS
77
mwscr dehero/mwscr

Original screenshots and videos from The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. No third-party mods. No color filters. No interface.

HEALTH 100 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem

// Newborn

Born in the last 2 months, committed in the last 2 weeks — fragile, alive, worth watching.

Newborn Newborn JavaScript JS C# C#
57
DSH-Portable WSL043/DSH-Portable

A truly portable DeepSeek Harness desktop build. Sessions, settings, plugins, and workspace move with the folder.

HEALTH 90 / Healthy
// hidden gem// release machine
Newborn Newborn JavaScript JS
30
awesome-dsh-plugin bruc3van/awesome-dsh-plugin

用 30 秒为你的 DeepSeek Harness找到合适的插件。 仓库由脚本每天自动抓取,再经人工逐个核实——真插件进目录,蹭热度的进黑名单,每条剔除理由公开可查。并告诉你每个插件适合谁、从哪里开始。

HEALTH 97 / Healthy
Newborn Newborn Rust RS Vue VU
38
reader hadc188/reader

「阅读3.0」(Legado)的桌面版,支持 Windows、macOS 和 Linux,使用 Rust、Tauri v2 与 Vue 3 构建。

HEALTH 79 / Stable
// solo// hidden gem// release machine

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The Undervalued Score +

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 — divided by a logarithmic reach factor.

score  = signal / reach

signal = 0.25·commit_velocity   // commits in last 90 days (cap 30)
       + 0.20·contributor_work  // unique authors × velocity (cap 100)
       + 0.20·issue_resolution  // closed ÷ total issues
       + 0.20·fork_ratio        // forks ÷ stars (proxy for real usage)
       + 0.10·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  = log₁₀(stars + watchers + 10)
The Health Score +

Is the project alive and maintained right now? A 0–100 pulse recomputed nightly from commit recency, rhythm, how fast issues close, and how quickly PRs get merged.

health = 0.35·recency       // days since last commit (90d decay)
       + 0.25·cadence       // commit rhythm consistency
       + 0.20·issue_health  // closed ÷ total issues
       + 0.20·pr_health     // merged ÷ total PRs
Health bands +

The colour and label on every card come straight from the health score.

Healthy   80 – 100   active, responsive, regular releases
Stable    60 – 79    maintained, steady, no alarms
Quiet     40 – 59    slowing down — watch this one
At Risk    0 – 39    going dark · candidate for rescue
// Tags — what each label means +

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 · active in last 3 months · documented
legacy_hero       repo > 5 years old · committed this year
fork_magnet       forks/stars > 0.5 · used as template or dependency
release_machine   5+ releases in the last 90 days
under_pressure    > 10 open issues · ≤ 2 contributors · health ≥ 60
community_watch   watchers > stars · devs tracking before the public
community_hub     GitHub Discussions enabled · > 20 discussions
funded            maintainer has active funding channel
Why rank against stars at all? +

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 — so the genuinely undervalued rise to the top.

// stars   = lagging indicator
// commits = leading indicator
// we rank by the leading one