A common question about how to find repositories to contribute to

• realworld

  121 78,363 8.1 TypeScript

  "The mother of all demo apps" — Exemplary fullstack Medium.com clone powered by React, Angular, Node, Django, and many more

  

Github has millions of projects, some large fraction with more than 100 stars, so it doesn't seem like you are searching very hard. But more importantly, why "100 stars"? Stars are meaningless and arbitrary. Many developers use stars like bookmarks. I just did a quick search and noticed a project like realworld (just a demo for learning, 65 contributors) has have more stars than Bitcoin (900+ developers, perhaps you have heard of it?)

• Bitcoin

  906 76,303 10.0 C++

  Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree

  

Github has millions of projects, some large fraction with more than 100 stars, so it doesn't seem like you are searching very hard. But more importantly, why "100 stars"? Stars are meaningless and arbitrary. Many developers use stars like bookmarks. I just did a quick search and noticed a project like realworld (just a demo for learning, 65 contributors) has have more stars than Bitcoin (900+ developers, perhaps you have heard of it?)

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• ebitenui

  16 478 8.3 Go

  User interface engine and widget library for Ebiten

  

I'll just throw this out there. I am building a ui framework for use with ebitengine. It's at 300ish stars and I love when people throw out PRs. If your interested in helping out, feel free to check it out and join the discord: https://github.com/ebitenui/ebitenui

• compiler

  3 447 8.7 Go

  The Astro compiler. Written in Go. Distributed as WASM. (by withastro)

  

• libopenapi

  1 334 9.6 Go

  libopenapi is a fully featured, high performance OpenAPI 3.1, 3.0 and Swagger parser, library, validator and toolkit for golang applications.

  

Want to get involved in the OpenAPI community? This is an up and coming library for working with OpenAPI docs lots of potential for improvement https://github.com/pb33f/libopenapi

• owncast

  94 8,946 9.9 Go

  Take control over your live stream video by running it yourself. Streaming + chat out of the box.

  

I always recommend people to contribute to software they use themselves. For me that is self-hosted servers like Mealie (Python+Vue) and Owncast (Go+React). Especially Owncast is a project that imo is comparatively easy to get into because the setup is kept really simple, documentation is good and the maintainers are super nice :) There are some good first issues, but in addition to that there are also often "debug problem X" issues that imo help one get into a project quick because you'll read a lot of code for them.

• steam-deck-utilities

  144 2,988 5.7 Go

  A utility to improve performance and help manage storage on Steam Deck.

Not sure if have a SteamDeck, but there's a lot of cool projects for the it at the moment, like /u/CryoByte33's https://github.com/CryoByte33/steam-deck-utilities.

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com featured

  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

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