// open source is more than stars

Not famous. Not abandoned. Just building.

SilentStars tracks 377 open source projects that are actively built but chronically undervalued. No hype. No trending algorithms. Just signal.

377 projects tracked
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354 actively building
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234 solo builders
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β˜… 20.9k combined stars

// Top picks

Highest signal-to-reach ratio β€” building more than their audience knows.

Newborn Newborn JavaScript JS
↑ 73 ?
gh-pull shiqicao/gh-pull

GitHub CLI extension for a local pull request dashboard. Group PRs by repository, monitor reviews and CI checks, and merge from your browser.

HEALTH ? 99 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem// release machine
Newborn Newborn TypeScript TS
↑ 58 ?
iota molimao/iota

Open-source, five-language mining dashboard for IOTA Train at Home, PRL, BNT, XMR, ERG, ZEPH and more: saved addresses, worker status, available rewards and optional Mac agent controls.

HEALTH ? 80 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem
Thriving Thriving TypeScript TS
↑ 42 ?
envilder macalbert/envilder

One secret mapping for local dev, CI/CD, and runtime. Envilder resolves cloud secrets from your own vaults without SaaS middlemen, duplicated config, or .env drift.

HEALTH ? 89 / Healthy
// funded// under pressure
Thriving Thriving TypeScript TS
↑ 40 ?
Peon Peon-sh/Peon

Open-source, self-hostable deployment platform. Deploy Git apps, Docker Compose, databases, and static sites to your own servers, the open alternative to Vercel/Heroku.

HEALTH ? 96 / Healthy
// release machine
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// Shipping

5+ releases in 90 days β€” these teams don't stop.

Thriving Thriving Kotlin KT
↑ 50 ?
MyPlayer Aashutosh2021/MyPlayer

A modern Android music player featuring local playback, online music search, streaming, offline downloads, playlist management, and advanced audio enhancement controls.

HEALTH ? 74 / Stable
// solo// hidden gem// release machine
Newborn Newborn HTML HT Go GO
↑ 35 ?
Arion AstraFoundry/Arion

Local-first voice input for macOS and Windows. On-device speech recognition, offline dictation, and local polishing.

HEALTH ? 80 / Healthy
// hidden gem// release machine
Thriving Thriving TypeScript TS CSS CS
↑ 51 ?
CookLLM Crvesoft/CookLLM

A lightweight launcher for llama.cpp / Ninfer / KVMem: model hub, multi-engine management, parameter presets, one-click start/stop, performance monitoring, community model exploration and downloads, and a built-in chat. A modern GUI launcher for llama.cpp / Ninfer / KVMem to manage modelsβ€”multi-engine hub, presets, one-click server, live metrics, downloader & chat UI.

HEALTH ? 89 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem// release machine
Thriving Thriving TypeScript TS
↑ 34 ?
dsh-mattpocock-skills-deck FeatherHunter/dsh-mattpocock-skills-deck

🌹 Comes with the 27 engineering and productivity skills from mattpocock/skills v1.3.1 out of the box, so you don't need to install the skills manually. Built on 52 billion tokens, this plugin adds 10Γ— development efficiency on top of the original skills and helps newcomers get up to speed with the skill suite faster. Supports issues on GitHub and GitLab; local Markdown is in preview. Thanks for your use and support πŸ’—

HEALTH ? 99 / Healthy
// solo// release machine

// Help wanted

The maintainer labelled the door open. Time to walk in.

Thriving Thriving Python PY
↑ 81 ?
grelmicro grelinfo/grelmicro

Grelmicro is a lightweight framework/toolkit which is ideal for building async microservices in Python.

HEALTH ? 97 / Healthy
// solo// help wanted// hidden gem// under pressure
Thriving Thriving HTML HT
↑ 73 ?
Monochromatic Aquaticat/Monochromatic

TypeScript and Rust monorepo: Claude Code and Pi coding-agent plugins, a minimal MCP stdio server framework, custom oxlint plugins and a pluggable Rust linter, policy-aware git tooling, core TS libraries, Wayland desktop apps (GTK4 file manager, Slint terminal, true-peak music player), OpenTofu infra automation, and a personal site.

HEALTH ? 84 / Healthy
// solo// help wanted// hidden gem// under pressure
Thriving Thriving HTML HT TypeScript TS
↑ 71 ?
Monochromatic Aquaticats/Monochromatic

TypeScript and Rust monorepo: Claude Code and Pi coding-agent plugins, a minimal MCP stdio server framework, custom oxlint plugins and a pluggable Rust linter, policy-aware git tooling, core TS libraries, Wayland desktop apps (GTK4 file manager, Slint terminal, true-peak music player), OpenTofu infra automation, and a personal site.

HEALTH ? 84 / Healthy
// solo// help wanted// hidden gem// under pressure
Thriving Thriving Rust RS TypeScript TS
↑ 65 ?
covenant open-covenant/covenant

A capability-based operating layer for long-running autonomous software engineering agents. Rust daemon, signed capabilities, append-only audit, drift-aware memory, fail-closed sandbox dispatch, commit-scoped provenance.

HEALTH ? 80 / Healthy
// solo// help wanted// hidden gem// release machine// fork magnet
Thriving Thriving Rust RS TypeScript TS
↑ 55 ?
rolter rolter-ai/rolter

(WIP) High-performance OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible AI gateway + load balancer in Rust (LiteLLM-proxy alternative)

HEALTH ? 97 / Healthy
// solo// help wanted// hidden gem
Thriving Thriving Python PY Java JV
↑ 54 ?
ragleap-core ragleap/ragleap-core

Open-source AI employees that ask before they act. 46 business roles, approval-gated autonomy, sandboxed code, Graph RAG on your own documents, WhatsApp/Telegram/Discord, Gemini, Anthropic, Ollama and 15 more LLM providers. Self-hosted, MIT.

HEALTH ? 85 / Healthy
// solo// help wanted// hidden gem// funded// release machine// fork magnet

// Under pressure

Healthy project, overwhelmed solo team. Worth saving.

Thriving Thriving Rust RS
↑ 65 ?
sandfs lydakis/sandfs

A copy-on-write sandbox filesystem for agents: mount any data lazily, fork it instantly, and see exactly what changed.

HEALTH ? 84 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem// release machine// under pressure
Newborn Newborn Dart DA C++ C+
↑ 50 ?
raccoon SoFluffyOS/raccoon

🦝 The Raccoon hosted Flutter runtime: the protocol package, the host-side runtime, the view widgets and the C++ runner, one repository, one tracker.

HEALTH ? 94 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem// under pressure
Newborn Newborn Python PY QM
↑ 49 ?
easy-R5 GISBoost/easy-R5

A QGIS processing plugin for transit accessibility analysis on the Conveyal R5 routing engine β€” travel-time matrices, cumulative accessibility and isochrones, inside QGIS, no R and no conda.

HEALTH ? 73 / Stable
// solo// hidden gem// release machine// under pressure
Thriving Thriving Rust RS
↑ 53 ?
xmux zer0ken/xmux

A cross-machine, cross-mux session switcher

HEALTH ? 99 / Healthy
// hidden gem// release machine// under pressure

// Solo builders

One person carrying it all. No team. No VC. Just commits.

Thriving Thriving HTML HT JavaScript JS
↑ 98 ?
sahilrajput03 sahilrajput03/sahilrajput03

Source code for sahilrajput.com β€” my personal tech blog and notes hub featuring essays, productivity tools, programming resources, links, and more, built to share thoughts, learning resources, and code.

HEALTH ? 89 / Healthy
// solo// legacy hero// fork magnet
Thriving Thriving C# C#
↑ 88 ?
OracleOfDereth advis61/OracleOfDereth

An Asheron's Call Decal plugin. Displays character status, buffs, and progression, along with quest details, exploration markers, titles, and Void Mage DoT timers.

HEALTH ? 94 / Healthy
// solo
Thriving Thriving TypeScript TS
↑ 87 ?
sokosumi masumi-network/sokosumi

This is the monorepo of the Sokosumi Marketplace, the web-app is built with Next.js and TypeScript, with a strong focus on UX and security

HEALTH ? 99 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem// release machine// fork magnet

// Legacy heroes

5+ years old and still committing. Resilience over hype.

Thriving Thriving Python PY
↑ 94 ?
envergo MTES-MCT/envergo

La rΓ©glementation environnementale pour les projets d'amΓ©nagement, de construction et les travaux sur haies

HEALTH ? 98 / Healthy
// hidden gem// legacy hero// fork magnet
Thriving Thriving Python PY
↑ 84 ?
dash rapidpro/dash

Library utilities for building dashboards against RapidPro

HEALTH ? 94 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem// legacy hero// fork magnet

// Fork magnets

More forks than stars β€” used as a building block, not just bookmarked.

Thriving Thriving TypeScript TS
↑ 68 ?
metagraphed JSONbored/metagraphed

Bittensor didn't ship with a map. We drew one β€” chain-direct block explorer, developer registry, and an agent toolkit built right in.

HEALTH ? 98 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem// funded// fork magnet

// Watched

Devs are tracking these before the public notices.

Thriving Thriving PHP PH JavaScript JS
↑ 75 ?
blockX palasthotel/blockX

WordPress-Plugin and npm package to make Gutenberg-block-development easier.

HEALTH ? 91 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem// legacy hero// community watch
Thriving Thriving Shell SH GO
↑ 57 ?
govuk-helm-charts alphagov/govuk-helm-charts

Helm charts for the GOV.UK website and publishing platform (content management system). Cluster turnup automation is in https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-infrastructure.

HEALTH ? 99 / Healthy
// legacy hero// community watch

// Funded

Financially supported. Committed to shipping long-term.

Thriving Thriving Go GO TypeScript TS
↑ 80 ?
srat dianlight/srat

SRAT (SambaNAS REST Administration Tool) is a new system designed to provide a simplified user interface for configuring SAMBA. It has been developed to work within Home Assistant.

HEALTH ? 99 / Healthy
// hidden gem// funded
At Risk At Risk JavaScript JS
↑ 72 ?
scroll-of-fire ssnfts24/scroll-of-fire

Living architecture of resonance. The Scroll of Fire Codex. A self-evolving manuscript blending physics, frequency, consciousness, and code into one harmonic system.

HEALTH ? 63 / Stable
// funded
Thriving Thriving Swift SW
↑ 68 ?
cloakdrop cloakyard/cloakdrop

A fast, private, multi-segment download manager for macOS β€” that feels like Apple made it.

HEALTH ? 98 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem// funded// release machine

// Hidden gems

Under 100 stars. Documented. Alive. Look closer.

Thriving Thriving Python PY HTML HT
↑ 86 ?
kospex kospex/kospex

Know your code and know your developers: git analytics, code ownership, key person risk, dependency and supply chain freshness, and tech landscape β€” from a CLI and local web UI.

HEALTH ? 91 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem// fork magnet
Thriving Thriving Lua LU
↑ 86 ?
debind mundi4/debind

Layered keybindings for World of Warcraft. Set a key once for every character, then override it on one class, one spec, or a single alt.

HEALTH ? 95 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem
Thriving Thriving Go GO TypeScript TS
↑ 85 ?
croupier cuihairu/croupier

Croupier is a Server / Agent / SDK platform for game operations and control, designed for multiple games and multiple environments within a single game company.

HEALTH ? 99 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem// release machine
Quiet Quiet C++ C+
↑ 85 ?
TablePilot Phoenix0531-sudo/TablePilot

TablePilotοΌšζœ¬εœ°δΌ˜ε…ˆηš„ε€ζ‚θ‘¨ζ Όζ™Ίθƒ½εˆ†ζžε·₯作台 | Local-first messy table analysis workbench for repair plans, insights, and explainable reports

HEALTH ? 78 / Stable
// hidden gem// release machine

// Newborn

Born in the last 2 months, committed in the last 2 weeks β€” fragile, alive, worth watching.

Newborn Newborn C C Python PY
↑ 30 ?
zve10-qemu cokeenet/zve10-qemu

Running ZV-E10 (gen 1) firmware in QEMU Running Sony ZV-E10 (gen 1) firmware in QEMU β€” boot patches, scripts and research notes (no firmware included)

HEALTH ? 70 / Stable
// hidden gem

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