Longer-form updates and explainers. For a terse ship log, see Changelog.
RepoRanker was a peer-review platform with credits, boosts, and an 800-character review minimum. All of it is retired. What failed, what replaced it, and why a board covered in paid rows adds up to exactly one card payment.
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Read more →Most users have opinions and never share them. Here's the specific sequence that gets useful feedback from real developers on your open-source project.
Read more →Every venue worth submitting to in 2026, organized by traffic profile, launch-day vs durable visibility, and honest tradeoffs for each.
Read more →A practical template for writing peer reviews of open-source projects: what to cover, what to avoid, and how to give honest feedback without being a jerk.
Read more →Stars measure how loud your launch was, not whether your project is worth using. Here are the 5 signals that actually tell you.
Read more →A pragmatic launch playbook for OSS maintainers: pick the right surfaces, sequence the launches, and keep visibility compounding after week one.
Read more →Ways to browse and syndicate what’s on the RepoRanker board: topic index pages, the RSS feed, and the public JSON API.
Read more →A public board for open-source GitHub projects. Listing is free, a place near the top starts at $3, and every paid row shows what it cost.
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