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Discovering Open-Source Projects

Comments focus on ways to find, discover, and curate interesting open-source projects, particularly on GitHub, with recommendations for 'Awesome' lists, aggregators, and browsing platforms.

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Sample Comments

brador • Feb 28, 2014 • View on HN

Is there any website that collates cool Github projects like this?

pknerd • Apr 5, 2021 • View on HN

How do you find interesting Open source projects?

linux-modder • Aug 27, 2016 • View on HN

Opensource project pages and most Open Source centric / leaning blogs are good sources for info on these sorts of things.

mindcrime • Dec 27, 2019 • View on HN

Just browse around GitHub, Gitlab, Sourceforge, Savannah, etc., until you find something that looks interesting.

ysnp • Feb 26, 2022 • View on HN

Is there a way or a good place to see an overview of the open-source projects in this area if we want to support them?

sohodlers • Sep 12, 2019 • View on HN

I heard there are some project in GitHub. You may check them out..

richerlariviere • Jan 7, 2016 • View on HN

Hey, maybe you will find something interesting with the "Awesome" list on Github? https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

elkos • Feb 17, 2019 • View on HN

I would really appreciate a similar list for open-source projects

Octoth0rpe • Feb 18, 2024 • View on HN

Have you tried looked through the 'awesome' pages on github? https://github.com/topics/awesome

vitobotta • Apr 23, 2011 • View on HN

Cool, it's also a nice way to discover repos and projects