up-for-grabs.net VS explore

Up-for-Grabs projects: Find issues specifically marked for beginner contributions.

Up For Grabs maintains a “list of open source projects which have curated tasks specifically for new contributors.” (Source: Up For Grabs)

If you're unsure where to begin, websites like Up For Grabs can be valuable resources. They curate lists of open source projects that actively seek contributions, making it easier for you to find projects that are suitable for your skills and interests. These platforms provide a starting point for your research and help you navigate the vast space of open source projects.

Up For Grabs - Shows you repositories that need your attention , it's quite amazing because it's mostly beginner rated issues that are quite easy to solve

the sidebar links http://up-for-grabs.net/

Up For Grabs - a website that lists beginner-friendly open-source projects

Up For Grabs

There isn't a lot going on there, but I like the way he added the little language and tech-stack icons to his GitHub profile using the images served by the GitHub Explore page as well.

Checking the GitHub explore page for fun projects and inspiration

Uh? How is this AI thingie different from Github Explore?

https://github.com/explore

What is the real URL for Github Feed?

The Before I Die Code project’s front end is built with React, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, and it’s currently deployed on Vercel. However, the technology will change with the deployment as I am planning on applying for this open-source project to be featured on the GitHub explore page. For this, the project will need to be using GitHub pages.

New users finding a project is much more likely on GitHub. I'm not necessarily talking about search. I would expect that experience to be about the same on both, though generally, I see a lot more empty projects showing up in results on GitLab for some reason, at least for things I've searched for there. Github seems to do reasonably well with search ranking. I'm more concerned about the poor experience with https://gitlab.com/explore compared to https://github.com/explore where people are going to be discovering new libraries when they don't know what they are looking for and are either browsing topically or just browsing for fun and learning. GitLab seems to do particularly poorly in their curation and selection of what they show you. GitHub on the other hand, has connected me with countless extremely high quality projects through this feature. Finally, the discoverability advantage of GitHub over gitlab is also simply because more people use GitHub. You don't need to primarily use GitHub to use it to point to GitLab If you want to work there, but you're certainly going to have more users finding your project if you have presence on GitHub.

You can also star projects you find interesting and github will use that for the EXPLORE tab to show you other cool projects.

Subscribe to atom/rss feed of https://github.com/explore (you prolly want to have a gihub account) or https://github.com/trending and be sure to at least 'follow' any projects that may interest you. No need to install everything.

Otherwise search for "good first issue" or similar, there are some sites that curate them. Or see GitHub Explore

Sauce: https://github.com/explore