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guven0141today at 10:33 AM0 repliesview on HN

Why I built this: I’ve always felt that GitHub stars alone don’t tell the full story of a project's impact. I wanted to see if I could quantify the effort and "financial worth" behind a repository, even if just as a fun estimate. It started as a way to check the value of my own side projects and grew from there.

How it works: The tool fetches real-time data from the GitHub API. The valuation algorithm takes into account several factors:

Total stars and forks (popularity).

Commit frequency and recent activity (maintenance level).

Number of contributors (community strength).

Repo age and issue activity.

The Tech Stack: The app is built with Next.js and Tailwind CSS, and it’s deployed on Vercel. I tried to keep it as lightweight and fast as possible.

I’d love your feedback: Is the valuation logic too optimistic or too conservative? What other metrics should I include to make the estimate more "realistic" for the open-source world?