ScionOfBalance
5 hours ago
I stumbled upon this website and easily found some repos I never heard about that helped me greatly to gain knowledge on otherwise hard to spot niches. The query filters, growth metrics and immediate overviews were much more helpful than a "blind" google search.
alessandroflati
5 hours ago
Thanks for sharing that — exactly the use case I built it for. The niche discovery angle (finding strong repos in categories you didn't know to search for) is something I want to lean into more. Curious: which topic filters did you find most useful, and were there any niches that felt underpopulated or missing entirely?
ScionOfBalance
5 hours ago
Personally, I explored the AI/ML and DevTools topics, together with keywords like "learn", "hands-on", and similar, since I was looking for educational repositories to learn programming languages like Rust or Go, without resorting to the old fashioned "reed the manual" way.
So, I would say that if some sort of "Educational" topic was added to the menu on the left, it would have made my search even easier and more spot-on.
By the way, I appreciate the answer, and congrats on your idea and the outcome so far :)
alessandroflati
4 hours ago
Really glad it helped with that use case - finding hands-on learning resources is something I hadn't explicitly designed for, but it makes a lot of sense as a discovery pattern.
The "Educational" topic is a good idea. The taxonomy is currently derived from GitHub topics, so repos would need to be tagged with something like tutorial, learning, or educational to surface there... but I can look at whether there's enough coverage to make it a useful filter. Adding it to the backlog!
Thanks for the kind words, and for the concrete suggestion — this is exactly the kind of feedback that helps.