How RepoRanker works
RepoRanker is a public board for open-source GitHub repositories with long-form peer reviews and a credit economy. The home "Top" sort is not a secret engagement feed: ordering follows a published formula based on peer reviews, star momentum, and optional boosts. Boosts amplify your score — they cannot manufacture rank that reviews haven't earned. Use the "Most reviewed" sort to discover projects purely by review activity.
The basics
Submit, review, boost
1. Submit your repo
Any active public GitHub repo is eligible. Add a short tagline. Your project goes live on the leaderboard immediately. No approval queue.
2. Review other projects
Sign in with GitHub, browse the feed, and write a substantive review. Reviews must be at least 800 characters. After a 48-hour dispute window, the review is released and you earn credits. You do not earn credits for reviews that are successfully disputed.
3. Get visibility
Spend earned credits on time-boxed boosts (leaderboard pin, featured slot, and more), or pay in USD for the same boost types on the pricing page. Credits are not sold for cash; you earn them by reviewing. Paying is always for a specific boost, not for buying credit balance.
Credits
How the credit economy works
Credits are RepoRanker’s in-app points. You earn them by writing released reviews and use them to activate boosts. The more you review, the more you can amplify your own projects. Or you can pay for boosts directly without spending credits.
Earning credits
Sign-up bonus
25 credits
one time, on account creation
Write a review
+10 credits
released after 48-hour dispute window
Spending credits
Leaderboard boost
20 credits
24 hours at top of feed
Featured spotlight
50 credits
48 hours in featured section
Review request
80 credits
4 days: reviewers earn 2x credits on badged repos
Leaderboard
How the home feed is ordered
The default Top list is fully deterministic. Exact tie-breaks (time filters, search, and how boosts interact with other repos) are on the Leaderboard rules page.
Boosts
What a boost does
A boost is a time-limited visibility upgrade for your repo. There are three types. Each runs for a fixed window, then expires automatically. Boosts can be activated with earned credits or purchased directly in USD on the pricing page — no credit balance required for paid boosts.
Leaderboard boost
24 hours · 20 creditsMultiplies your rank score on the main leaderboard for 24 hours, pushing your repo higher in the default feed. The multiplier amplifies organic signal — reviews and star momentum you've already earned. A repo with no reviews scores zero regardless of boosts. The multiplier is capped at 2× so a well-reviewed repo always outranks a boosted-but-unreviewed one.
Featured spotlight
48 hours · 50 creditsPins your repo in the Featured section at the top of the home page — above the main leaderboard — for 48 hours. Up to 3 repos can be featured simultaneously. This placement is independent of your leaderboard rank: your repo appears in the spotlight regardless of where it sits in the main feed.
Review request
4 days · 80 creditsSignals to the community that you are actively seeking reviews. Your repo is badged "Seeking reviews · 2× credits" in the leaderboard and on your repo page for 4 days. During that window, reviewers earn double credits (20 instead of 10) for reviewing your project. That credit bonus is locked in at submission time — reviewers get their 2× even if the boost expires before the 48-hour dispute window closes.
Reviews
How peer reviews work
A review is a written assessment: what the project does, who it is for, and what could improve. The 800-character minimum filters out one-liners.
After you submit, a 48-hour dispute window runs. The maintainer can dispute if the review is low-effort, off-topic, or dishonest. If no dispute is filed, the review is released, becomes public, and your credits are granted.
One review per repo per reviewer. You cannot review your own repos. There is no star rating. The text is the signal, and it lives on the repo page regardless of the main feed sort.
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