StarSearch is our AI-powered feature that provides in-depth insights into contributor history and activities, bringing transparency and a new depth of knowledge about open source projects.
We're beyond excited to introduce StarSearch to you all. Our newest feature at OpenSauced!
In 2022, I worked at GitHub and consistently got feedback from open-source maintainers that they’d love more insights. This is also true for builders who depend on open source to ship and iterate quickly. Founders are choosing open source, but few know who to connect with for expertise.
🌟 Why StarSearch?
In the 90s, I watched a show on television at my grandma's house called StarSearch. This same show discovered Beyonce, Ryan Gosling, and Justin Timberlake before they were stars. This new and complementary feature is live in our OpenSauced product today, and we have indexed millions of GitHub events and are excited to get your feedback on the approach.
🍕 Track impactful developers from open source projects
🍕 Discover new projects in open source
🍕 Identify your next core contributors
Using StarSearch, you can find up-and-coming contributors through trends in public open-source data, which can set you apart from the rest when building. We love open source and want more folks connected to the who's who in this space. StarSearch is our first exploration of adding semantic search to fetch relevant context on the projects used, built, and depended on.
👀 Try it out and run the following test prompts https://oss.fyi/starsearch
Who are some Tailwind experts who also have an interest in Rust?
Who are the prevalent contributors in the Typescript ecosystem?
What pull requests has charliermarsh worked on recently?
🙏 Thank you for exploring StarSearch! We've invested our passion and creativity into this; your feedback is invaluable. Dive in, engage, and know we're here for any questions or chats about the wonders of OpenSauced.
👇 We're all ears for your feedback below! 👇
About StarSearch on Product Hunt
“AI Copilot, but for git history”
StarSearch launched on Product Hunt on May 23rd, 2024 and earned 422 upvotes and 167 comments, earning #3 Product of the Day. StarSearch is our AI-powered feature that provides in-depth insights into contributor history and activities, bringing transparency and a new depth of knowledge about open source projects.
On the analytics side, StarSearch competes within Open Source, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence and GitHub — topics that collectively have 1.1M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how StarSearch performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted StarSearch?
StarSearch was hunted by Brian Douglas. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Brian Douglas