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Open Source Heroes – Explore the world of Open Source

15 points by markets86 3y ago

az09mugen 3y ago
Very good idea ! It's nice also to see which company participates the most in open source projects
- markets86 3y ago
  Thanks! You can also filter out contributors by language and/or country: https://opensource-heroes.com/contributors https://opensource-heroes.com/contributors. And you can even explore stats for each country: https://opensource-heroes.com/countries https://opensource-heroes.com/countries. And much more! There is also "Reviews" (like Google or Truspilot, but for open source).
dang 3y ago
It looks like a nice project but lists can't be Show HNs (see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) so I've taken Show HN out of the title now.
- markets86 3y ago
  There is only one curated section, which is "Awesome" pages (https://opensource-heroes.com/awesome https://opensource-heroes.com/awesome). The rest of the data of the whole site is pulled from GitHub API.
  - dang 3y ago
    Ok, I've edited the word "curated" out of my comment above. Sorry for the confusion.
saulpw 3y ago
The top users are not open source contributors, but creators of those "awesome" lists and dev interview prep resources, which are overwhelmingly popular (by number of Github stars) even though they have zero code and don't have open source licenses (they use Creative Commons licenses).
arp242 3y ago
Top users and repos is almost exclusively "awesome-X" lists and things like that. I'm not saying these things aren't useful, but it's not really the same as contributing to open source or being a "top-rated open source developer".
- markets86 3y ago
  That's right, we have thought a few times that we should just skip repos with no language detected from rankings (and probably move this kind of resources to another section). Btw, in the "Top Contributors" section, you can filter out contributors by languages, example: https://opensource-heroes.com/contributors?language=python https://opensource-heroes.com/contributors?language=python
  - arp242 3y ago
    That list still seems pretty biased (I think at least, because hovers to show the cards are mostly off-screen, in Firefox anyway).
    - markets86 3y ago
      The only semi-manual section is https://opensource-heroes.com/awesome https://opensource-heroes.com/awesome. All other data in the site is asynchronous updated via the GitHub API. But yeah, we still need to improve some UI stuff, specially in mobile (it looks quite good in desktop).
      - arp242 3y ago
        I appreciate that it's automated; my point is that's not actually a great way to do it, and that some curation is needed.
  - arp242 3y ago
    Also, that isn't really a list of "contributors", but of "organisations with the most stars". Those are different things. For example "public-apis"[1] didn't "contribute" anything as that's not a person, and looking at GitHub[2] there are a bunch of substantial contributors (the person who created the organisation/repo only has 12 commits by the way); [1]: https://opensource-heroes.com/o/public-apis https://opensource-heroes.com/o/public-apis [2]: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis/graphs/contributors https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis/graphs/contributo...
cloths 3y ago
Curious to know what the data source is? Github API?
- markets86 3y ago
  Yes! All data is fetched via GitHub API (due to the massive amount of data and the API rate limit, data is not updated in real time).
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15 points by markets86 3y ago

az09mugen 3y ago

Very good idea ! It's nice also to see which company participates the most in open source projects

markets86 3y ago
Thanks! You can also filter out contributors by language and/or country: https://opensource-heroes.com/contributors https://opensource-heroes.com/contributors. And you can even explore stats for each country: https://opensource-heroes.com/countries https://opensource-heroes.com/countries. And much more! There is also "Reviews" (like Google or Truspilot, but for open source).

dang 3y ago

It looks like a nice project but lists can't be Show HNs (see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) so I've taken Show HN out of the title now.

markets86 3y ago
There is only one curated section, which is "Awesome" pages (https://opensource-heroes.com/awesome https://opensource-heroes.com/awesome). The rest of the data of the whole site is pulled from GitHub API.
- dang 3y ago
  Ok, I've edited the word "curated" out of my comment above. Sorry for the confusion.

saulpw 3y ago

The top users are not open source contributors, but creators of those "awesome" lists and dev interview prep resources, which are overwhelmingly popular (by number of Github stars) even though they have zero code and don't have open source licenses (they use Creative Commons licenses).

arp242 3y ago

Top users and repos is almost exclusively "awesome-X" lists and things like that. I'm not saying these things aren't useful, but it's not really the same as contributing to open source or being a "top-rated open source developer".

markets86 3y ago
That's right, we have thought a few times that we should just skip repos with no language detected from rankings (and probably move this kind of resources to another section). Btw, in the "Top Contributors" section, you can filter out contributors by languages, example: https://opensource-heroes.com/contributors?language=python https://opensource-heroes.com/contributors?language=python
- arp242 3y ago
  That list still seems pretty biased (I think at least, because hovers to show the cards are mostly off-screen, in Firefox anyway).
  - markets86 3y ago
    The only semi-manual section is https://opensource-heroes.com/awesome https://opensource-heroes.com/awesome. All other data in the site is asynchronous updated via the GitHub API. But yeah, we still need to improve some UI stuff, specially in mobile (it looks quite good in desktop).
    - arp242 3y ago
      I appreciate that it's automated; my point is that's not actually a great way to do it, and that some curation is needed.
- arp242 3y ago
  Also, that isn't really a list of "contributors", but of "organisations with the most stars". Those are different things. For example "public-apis"[1] didn't "contribute" anything as that's not a person, and looking at GitHub[2] there are a bunch of substantial contributors (the person who created the organisation/repo only has 12 commits by the way); [1]: https://opensource-heroes.com/o/public-apis https://opensource-heroes.com/o/public-apis [2]: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis/graphs/contributors https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis/graphs/contributo...

cloths 3y ago

Curious to know what the data source is? Github API?

markets86 3y ago
Yes! All data is fetched via GitHub API (due to the massive amount of data and the API rate limit, data is not updated in real time).

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