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Comment by zthomas | Hacker News Reader

Developer here, I subscribe to Github's official weekly newsletter and various other ones but always found that they did a poor job at highlighting what's trending. The "top trending" repos always seem to be most established projects like Bootstrap or ReactJs.

I'm using a peak detection algorithm to find which repos are spiking in traffic and rank the uptrend based on a normalized growth curve. This filters out all the well established repos and actually uncovers new trends and launches. Hope you guys find it useful!

Some notable features, there's also a better interface to search topics on github as well as a curated topics section: http://www.gitlogs.com/resource-guides http://www.gitlogs.com/search

Appreciate any feedback,

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This is awesome. I had the same desire and even told folks at GitHub that improving this report is low hanging fruit. It's been on my list of ideas to hack on for awhile :-)

Ideally you (well, really I :-P) also want star/follow activity from people you follow bundled in any update that's also reporting the projects discovered by your peak detection algorithm over that same period of time. There'd likely be some overlap in the report but you could indicate that in your report. This also gives you more incentive to login with GitHub which is a little lacking right now.

Anyway, thanks for doing this and great job :-)

Thanks for the feedback, the first thing on my list is definitely more personalization. I just wanted to get it out there and see if people liked it first.

Awesome product :) Is it possible to allow accounts so that user can browse starred repos from your web app ? I am suggesting this because the search feature's topics looks quite complete already, so it would be great to navigate hundreds of starred repos based on the topics, which is something I've been looking for.

You mean to browse repos that you starred yourself? Yup probably pretty easy to do.

This is cool! Any particular reason why you need permission to write all my public repositories when I log in?

Thanks, it's for starring a repo. Github ties it to that same permission scope. You can go to your Github integration settings and disable that scope just for a certain app if you want.

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