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We're beyond excited to introduce StarSearch to you all. Our newest feature at OpenSauced! In 2022, I worked at GitHub and consistently got feedback from open-source maintainers that they’d love more insights. This is also true for builders who depend on open source to ship and iterate quickly. Founders are choosing open source, but few know who to connect with for expertise. 🌟 Why StarSearch? In the 90s, I watched a show on television at my grandma's house called StarSearch. This same show discovered Beyonce, Ryan Gosling, and Justin Timberlake before they were stars. This new and complementary feature is live in our OpenSauced product today, and we have indexed millions of GitHub events and are excited to get your feedback on the approach. 🍕 Track impactful developers from open source projects 🍕 Discover new projects in open source 🍕 Identify your next core contributors Using StarSearch, you can find up-and-coming contributors through trends in public open-source data, which can set you apart from the rest when building. We love open source and want more folks connected to the who's who in this space. StarSearch is our first exploration of adding semantic search to fetch relevant context on the projects used, built, and depended on. 👀 Try it out and run the following test prompts https://oss.fyi/starsearch Who are some Tailwind experts who also have an interest in Rust? Who are the prevalent contributors in the Typescript ecosystem? What pull requests has charliermarsh worked on recently? 🙏 Thank you for exploring StarSearch! We've invested our passion and creativity into this; your feedback is invaluable. Dive in, engage, and know we're here for any questions or chats about the wonders of OpenSauced. 👇 We're all ears for your feedback below! 👇

Congrats on launching StarSearch. It’s the Github Contributor Tab on steroids. This opens up so many opportunities for finding the right person for the right task. Even just searching for specific packages or components, I can easily identify the persons who are instrumental in the development.

This is so cool! I love the idea of knowing specifics around who contributed what. So huge!

his StarSearch feature sounds interesting, it can help me better understand the contributors in open-source projects. I'm looking forward to trying it out and discovering new contributors.

i had a lot of fun working on the user interface (UI) for StarSearch. One exciting challenge that I tackled was loading dynamic widgets into a StarSearch response depending on the StarSearch response returned. I think I came up with an elegant solution, but I’m always welcome to feedback. 😎 It’s still early days, but we’ll be adding more dynamic widgets over time now that the logic is in place in the code base. Stay saucy peeps!

It's been really cool to watch the process and growth of this feature. We've been able to identify information that wasn't readily available before. It was there, but you would have to dig deep and spend a lot of time to find the answers for it. I'm a big fan of community and building bridges and I think StarSearch offers a new way to connect people. It also offers a great way to support people and projects as well. You can ask questions like, "Is the Laravel project at risk?" It'll let you know what its lottery factor (risk if a top contributor leaves) is and who the top contributors are. If a project is at high risk because a top contributor is putting in most of the contributors, that's an opportunity to support their continued work. I'm looking forward to seeing the continued development of StarSearch!

This is great! Love OpenSauced 🔥