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Top 23 Readme Open-Source Projects
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github-profile-readme-generator
🚀 Generate GitHub profile README easily with the latest add-ons like visitors count, GitHub stats, etc using minimal UI.
github-profile-readme-generator (rahuldkjain)
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AppSignal
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metrics
📊 An infographics generator with 30+ plugins and 300+ options to display stats about your GitHub account and render them as SVG, Markdown, PDF or JSON!
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beautify-github-profile
This repository will assist you in creating a more beautiful and appealing github profile, and you will have access to a comprehensive range of tools and tutorials for beautifying your github profile. 🪄 ⭐
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The-Complete-FAANG-Preparation
Dive into this repository, a comprehensive resource covering Data Structures, Algorithms, 450 DSA by Love Babbar, Striver DSA sheet, Apna College DSA Sheet, and FAANG Questions! 🚀 That's not all! We've got Technical Subjects like Operating Systems, DBMS, SQL, Computer Networks, and Object-Oriented Programming, all waiting for you.
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
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readme-typing-svg
⚡ Dynamically generated, customizable SVG that gives the appearance of typing and deleting text for use on your profile page, repositories, or website.
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github-readme-streak-stats
🔥 Stay motivated and show off your contribution streak! 🌟 Display your total contributions, current streak, and longest streak on your GitHub profile README
I used this widget to display the number of days on my GitHub profile. It was great until it stopped working some time ago. Some API changes probably. Maybe it'll come back eventually. But I didn't want to wait. I found an alternative that works here and now.
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The-Documentation-Compendium
📢 Various README templates & tips on writing high-quality documentation that people want to read.
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Project mention: Show HN: Textile – A desktop app for weaving together bits of text | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-01
`Textile` is a similar language to Markdown, used to weave text across multiple IDEs, programming languages, and CMSs:
https://textile-lang.com/
Textile is one of the core markups supported by GitHub and Pandoc:
https://github.com/github/markup / https://pandoc.org/
And many CMS, most famously TextPattern and MoveableType, but also things like Jekyll:
https://textile-lang.com/article/textile-markup-language-sup...
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awesome-github-profile-readme-templates
This repository contains best profile readme's for your reference.
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profile-readme-generator
Enhance your GitHub profile with this amazing tool, which allows you to create a personalized README quickly and easily. This profile README generator is the best you'll find
Project mention: Github-Tools VS profile-readme-generator - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/Github-Tools | 2026-05-12Another great tool that helps users generate a README.md file for their profile repo.
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github-readme-activity-graph
A dynamically generated activity graph to show your GitHub activities of last 31 days.
github-readme-activity-graph
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Readme discussion
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Readme projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | github-profile-readme-generator | 24,450 |
| 2 | awesome-readme | 21,521 |
| 3 | metrics | 17,250 |
| 4 | Best-README-Template | 16,386 |
| 5 | Badges4-README.md-Profile | 13,507 |
| 6 | beautify-github-profile | 12,551 |
| 7 | The-Complete-FAANG-Preparation | 12,277 |
| 8 | readme-md-generator | 11,134 |
| 9 | readme-typing-svg | 9,391 |
| 10 | github-readme-streak-stats | 7,155 |
| 11 | grip | 6,836 |
| 12 | github-profile-trophy | 6,664 |
| 13 | standard-readme | 6,372 |
| 14 | The-Documentation-Compendium | 6,044 |
| 15 | markup | 6,041 |
| 16 | awesome-github-profile-readme-templates | 5,327 |
| 17 | readme-template | 5,251 |
| 18 | profile-readme-generator | 4,023 |
| 19 | waka-readme-stats | 3,998 |
| 20 | readme-ai | 2,997 |
| 21 | github-readme-activity-graph | 2,341 |
| 22 | awesome-for-non-programmers | 1,973 |
| 23 | awesome-readme-template | 1,863 |
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