I built StarBack — discover projects from people who star your GitHub repo

Description and use

StarBack turns new GitHub stargazers into a project discovery feed using GitHub Actions and Issues, all within GitHub and without external hosting.

GitHub stars are one‑directional; stargazers often disappear after starring, so maintainers lack insight into what projects those users are building.

StarBack turns each new stargazer into a curated project discovery feed, all running natively inside GitHub without external hosting or databases.

1. Add two small workflow files to .github/workflows/ in the repo.
2. Configure the required GitHub secret.
3. When someone stars the repo, GitHub Actions runs the StarBack workflow.
4. StarBack queries the stargazer’s public repositories via the GitHub REST API.
5. Repositories are filtered (exclude forks, archived, disabled, inactive) and scored using stars, recent activity, forks, description, topics, and homepage.
6. The highest‑scoring repo is added as a task in a GitHub Issue inbox (e.g., "StarBack Inbox").

StarBack is a GitHub-native tool that turns new stargazers into a project discovery feed.

Everything runs with GitHub Actions, Issues, and the GitHub REST API.