Openbase

Choose the right open-source package every time

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Openbase helps developers choose the right open-source package every time - through user reviews, categorization, side-by-side comparison, and unparalleled insights about packages' popularity, reliability, activity and more.
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Lior Grossman
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Maker
Hello Product Hunt! 😻 After months of hard work, we are very excited to introduce you to Openbase! Openbase.com helps developers choose the right open-source package every time - through user reviews and unparalleled insights about package popularity, reliability, activity and more. I started Openbase out of my own frustration: there are 1.3 million JavaScript packages out there, and I found myself spending an increasing amount of time researching and evaluating packages every time I wanted to accomplish a task - implementing an autocomplete, showing a tooltip, or sending an HTTP request. We’ve built Openbase so it can help you choose the right package with: ⭐ Reviews - any developer can rate and review packages based on their experience, and we’ve even thrown in some badges (e.g. Great Documentation, Performant, etc.) Check it out: https://openbase.com/js/react 📊 Insights - we offer useful insights to help you compare packages, such as star count over time, commit frequency, time between versions, average time to resolve issues and PRs, percent of commits by the community, as well as information about dependencies, contributors and more. See here: https://openbase.com/js/webpack 📂 Categories - we’ve organized packages into categories, so you can visit a category page like React Autocomplete Libraries or Node HTTP Request Libraries to discover and compare packages within that category. e.g. https://openbase.com/categories/... We’d love to hear your feedback about Openbase, and in particular how we can improve the reviews feature. We are here to answer your questions!
Titus Decali
My first thought was "Is this really needed" but after a single search I realized that you have done an excellent job on this. I was just looking for a package earlier today and wasted 2 hours reviewing the options. After a search on your site, I got a bunch new options that I hadn't even considered before. Bookmarked, and I'll be using this often. Thanks!
Lior Grossman
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Maker
@titusdecali Thank you for the kind words Titus. This product was created out of our own pain - spending hours comparing different libraries just like you mentioned. Funnily, we've even used Openbase many times while building Openbase. We're really glad you like it! Let us know if there are any additional capabilities you'd like to see.
Titus Decali
@liorgrossman I'm curious how the search results are sorted. I would prefer seeing the listings by stars, or have a results page that allows me to sort options on my own rather than going directly to the detail page of each directly.
Lior Grossman
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Maker
@titusdecali Currently we use npms to power our autosuggest with some modifications. We do have a search results page on our pipeline, where you can see a nice bunch of insights for each package (rating, stars, downloads, commit history). In addition, we want to combining the concept of categories (e.g. Tooltip, or Logger) into our search results.
Aleksandr Volodarsky
Very useful, thanks. And I love the design. Good Luck!
Jonathan Lucas
Maker
@volodarik Thank you! We are really lucky to have @gil_finkelstein1 on board!
Aleksandr Volodarsky
Great job @gil_finkelstein1. We also love black design lemon.io
Gil finkelstein
Keycon.space
Maker
@volodarik thank you Aleksandr :)
Gil finkelstein
Keycon.space
Maker
@volodarik Dark theme rules :)
Ethan Glover
Very well done. I saw the slick video and rolled my eyes but this has legitimate function. I think I may start using this over npmjs.com to search for packages.
Jonathan Lucas
Maker
@eglove Thank you, that's great to hear. We have many more exciting features on the way as well!
Gil finkelstein
Keycon.space
Maker
@eglove Thank you very much Ethan :) We've much more interesting stuff coming up. If you have any questions or feedback, we always eager to listen and act by, and for our users and community. Feel free to contact me at any subject at gil @openbase.io
Ethan Glover
@openbase @gil_finkelstein1 I'm curious what the monetization strategy is? I don't see any ads. Maybe this would be related to the interesting stuff you have coming? ;)
Gil finkelstein
Keycon.space
Maker
@openbase @eglove No ads! We have different approach. We believe in our value to the community. There is a lot to do in matter of monetization... Ads not one of them :) (I HATE ADS)
Lior Grossman
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Maker
@eglove Thank you for the kind words!
Zeynep Urgun
Congrats on launch. Could not try login with github b/c github crashed 25mins ago. How many unique reviewers and how active?
Lior Grossman
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Maker
@zurgun Correct! GitHub crashed, fortunately you can still use the site normally, but you cannot create an account since it's done with GitHub login. We're tracking the recovery at: https://www.githubstatus.com/
Jonathan Lucas
Maker
@zurgun Yeah this is unfortunate timing for a rare Github outage. I hope you will come back and check out our review tools when Github comes back up! (Hopefully soon)
Zeynep Urgun
@liorgrossman :-| yes!!! for 1hr down now... Can be used nonGitHub.
Jonathan Lucas
Maker
@liorgrossman @zurgun Looks like it's coming back online now!
Zeynep Urgun
@liorgrossman @jonathan_lucas Yes!! Such Fresh Design. Good Luck
Leandro
Merida for Remote Workers
Congrats on the launch, it's a great product! Loved reading about your design process.
Jonathan Lucas
Maker
@leandro8209 I have to say, working with @gil_finkelstein1 has been a pleasure. His work is top-notch!
Gil finkelstein
Keycon.space
Maker
@leandro8209 Thank you Leandro :)
Lior Grossman
Competely
Maker
Thank you for the kind words @leandro8209
Russell Jurney
This is interesting. What's next for openbase?
Lior Grossman
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Maker
Thanks @rjurney We're very bullish on package reviews and ratings. We also plan on adding lists soon (so you can save your favorite packages, packages you want to save for later, packages you want to share with colleagues). Nevertheless, we want to improve some aspects of the product (filtering categories by framework, adding bundle size, better side-by-side comparisons). We do plan on expanding to other programming languages in the future. Anything in particular you'd like to see on Openbase?
Lior Grossman
Competely
Maker
@rjurney Yep! Library search, discovery, and comparison
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