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

Описание и применение

StarBack преобразует новых звёздочков GitHub в поток открытий проектов, используя GitHub Actions и Issues без внешних сервисов.

Задача

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

Результат

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

Рабочий процесс

• 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").

Доказательства

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

Источник

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

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