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A daily radar of GitHub repos that are gaining stars, with a short summary and a project idea for each. Pick one and build with it.
| Rank | Repo | Summary | Language | Stars | +24 h | +7 d | +30 d | Forks | Age | Last push | License | Category | Use it |
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| 1down 34 since 2026-11-06 | codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x | A curated collection of step-by-step guides for recreating popular technologies such as databases, shells, compilers, and web servers from scratch.Idea: Build a minimal key-value store in Python by following the database guide, adding a write-ahead log and a simple TCP interface. | Markdown | 560,454 | +45 | n/a | Pro | 52,434 | 8 y | 3 mo ago | none | Other | Build with it |
| 2down 34 since 2026-11-06 | sindresorhus/awesome | A curated index of Awesome lists, meta-collections that link out to community-maintained resource lists on nearly every programming and tech topic.Idea: Build a script that parses the awesome README tables of contents and generates a searchable local directory of linked lists by category. | n/a | 532,555 | +124 | n/a | Pro | 38,179 | 12 y | 2 mo ago | CC0-1.0 | Other | Build with it |
| 3down 34 since 2026-11-06 | public-apis/public-apis | A community-curated, manually maintained list of free public APIs spanning many domains, with the README also promoting APILayer's commercial API suite.Idea: Build a small dashboard that pulls random entries from several free APIs in the list and displays their status and sample responses. | Python | 496,772 | +37 | n/a | Pro | 55,511 | 10 y | 1 d ago | MIT | Other | Build with it |
| 4down 34 since 2026-11-06 | freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp | The open-source codebase behind freeCodeCamp.org, including its free coding curriculum, certifications, and learning platform.Idea: Build a small interactive coding challenge runner that loads lesson-style exercises and checks learner answers in the browser. | TypeScript | 458,675 | +8 | n/a | Pro | 48,135 | 11 y | today | BSD-3-Clause | Other | Build with it |
| 5down 34 since 2026-11-06 | morluto/rea | An MCP server that lets AI agents reverse engineer native binaries, JavaScript and Electron apps,.NET assemblies, and websites, with local analysis and evidence-backed conclusions.Idea: Build an agent workflow that inspects a feature in an Electron app and writes a report of its logic with cited evidence and stated limitations. | TypeScript | 438,220 | +422 | n/a | Pro | 108,575 | 6 mo | today | MIT | Claude Code and MCP | Build with it |
| 6down 34 since 2026-11-06 | EbookFoundation/free-programming-books | A large curated list of freely available programming books and learning resources, organised by language and topic, maintained by the Free Ebook Foundation.Idea: Build a tool that scrapes the list's markdown tables and lets learners filter free books by language, format and difficulty level. | Python | 401,148 | +21 | n/a | Pro | 67,257 | 13 y | 6 d ago | CC-BY-4.0 | Other | Build with it |
| 7down 34 since 2026-11-06 | openclaw/openclaw | A self-hosted AI assistant that runs on your own devices and connects to chat apps like Telegram, Slack, Discord and WhatsApp, with a local Gateway and plugin-based models and tools.Idea: Build a plugin that adds a custom tool, such as a home server status checker, and expose it through the Gateway to a Telegram chat. | TypeScript | 394,078 | +18 | n/a | Pro | 82,812 | 11 mo | today | MIT | AI and agents | Build with it |
| 8down 34 since 2026-11-06 | donnemartin/system-design-primer | A free, open source study guide covering large-scale system design concepts, interview questions with sample solutions, and Anki flashcard decks.Idea: Build a spaced repetition quiz app that imports the system design Anki deck and tracks which trade-off topics you miss most often. | Python | 377,152 | +30 | n/a | Pro | 59,199 | 9 y | 53 d ago | NOASSERTION | Other | Build with it |
| 9down 34 since 2026-11-06 | nilbuild/developer-roadmap | A collection of community-driven, interactive learning roadmaps, guides and best-practice articles covering many developer skills and career paths.Idea: Build a personal skill tracker that imports a chosen roadmap's topic list and lets you tick off completed nodes and log study hours. | TypeScript | 371,420 | +8 | n/a | Pro | 45,356 | 9 y | 1 d ago | NOASSERTION | Other | Build with it |
| 10down 34 since 2026-11-06 | jwasham/coding-interview-university | A free, self-directed computer science study plan with topic lists, resources and a daily schedule for preparing for software engineering interviews.Idea: Build a command-line flashcard app that tracks which topics from the study plan you have covered and quizzes you on Big-O and data structures. | n/a | 364,053 | +10 | n/a | Pro | 85,321 | 10 y | 1 d ago | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | Other | Build with it |
| 11down 34 since 2026-11-06 | awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted | A curated, categorised list of free software network services and web applications that can be run on your own servers.Idea: Build a script that parses the list's markdown, checks each linked project's last commit date, and publishes a monthly report of stale self-hosted tools. | n/a | 334,544 | +47 | n/a | Pro | 15,753 | 11 y | today | NOASSERTION | SaaS | Build with it |
| 12down 34 since 2026-11-06 | vinta/awesome-python | A curated, opinionated list of the best Python frameworks, libraries, and tools, organised by category from AI and web development to DevOps and security.Idea: Build a command-line tool that takes a task description, matches it against the list's categories, and prints the top three recommended libraries with their one-line descriptions. | Python | 333,029 | +36 | n/a | Pro | 29,057 | 12 y | today | NOASSERTION | Other | Build with it |
| 13down 34 since 2026-11-06 | mattpocock/skills | A collection of small, composable agent skills for coding assistants, taken from the author's own working setup, covering grilling sessions, shared glossaries and engineering workflows.Idea: Build a team skill pack that adds a project glossary and triage labels for your own issue tracker, then share it as a plugin for your agent. | Shell | 316,786 | +149 | n/a | Pro | 26,502 | 9 mo | 2 d ago | MIT | Other | Build with it |
| 14down 34 since 2026-11-06 | obra/superpowers | A composable skills framework and software development methodology that guides coding agents through design, planning, TDD, and subagent-driven implementation.Idea: Build a custom skill that teaches your coding agent your team's code review checklist and wire it into the subagent review step. | Shell | 313,652 | +66 | n/a | Pro | 27,901 | 13 mo | 3 d ago | MIT | AI and agents | Build with it |
| 15down 34 since 2026-11-06 | affaan-m/ECC | A performance optimisation harness for AI coding agents, bundling reusable skills, instincts, memory, security checks and research-first workflows for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode and Cursor.Idea: Build a skill pack that auto-loads project-specific instincts and memory into Cursor or Claude Code, then measure token use before and after to show the gain. | JavaScript | 298,624 | +87 | n/a | Pro | 44,130 | 9 mo | today | MIT | Claude Code and MCP | Build with it |
| 16down 34 since 2026-11-06 | practical-tutorials/project-based-learning | A curated, community-maintained list of programming tutorials where learners build complete applications from scratch, grouped by language.Idea: Build a small shell or key-value store in C by following one of the linked tutorials, then extend it with a feature the tutorial leaves out. | Python | 289,223 | +12 | n/a | Pro | 36,820 | 9 y | 5 d ago | MIT | Other | Build with it |
| 17down 34 since 2026-11-06 | 996icu/996.ICU | A GitHub repo serving as the home of the 996.ICU movement, which protests overtime culture in Chinese tech and hosts the Anti 996 License.Idea: Build a GitHub Action that scans a repo's LICENSE file and flags whether it uses the Anti 996 License, then adds a README badge automatically. | n/a | 277,208 | +3 | n/a | Pro | 20,671 | 7 y | 14 mo ago | NOASSERTION | Other | Build with it |
| 18down 34 since 2026-11-06 | deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | An open-source agent harness from DeepSeek AI built on an everything-is-a-plugin architecture using the Cordis framework, run via a Web UI.Idea: Build a plugin that adds a custom tool or data source to the harness and publish it under the dsh-plugin GitHub topic. | TypeScript | 274,987 | +121 | n/a | Pro | 33,604 | 2 mo | 3 d ago | MIT | AI and agents | Build with it |
| 19down 34 since 2026-11-06 | NousResearch/hermes-agent | A self-improving open-source AI agent from Nous Research that creates and refines skills, searches past sessions, and runs across chat platforms and terminal backends.Idea: Build a scheduled Telegram bot that uses the agent's cron scheduler to send a daily summary of your GitHub issues and pull requests. | Python | 261,226 | +42 | n/a | Pro | 57,833 | 15 mo | today | MIT | Claude Code and MCP | Build with it |
| 20down 34 since 2026-11-06 | trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge | A curated collection of lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners and CLI and web tools for sysadmins and security practitioners.Idea: Build a searchable static site that indexes the repo's tool entries by category and tags, letting users filter links and one-liners by task. | n/a | 256,416 | +34 | n/a | Pro | 14,808 | 8 y | 23 mo ago | MIT | Other | Build with it |
| 21down 34 since 2026-11-06 | torvalds/linux | The Linux kernel source tree, the core software that manages hardware, system resources, and fundamental services for Linux systems.Idea: Build a small kernel module that logs scheduler or memory events to a userspace dashboard, using the documented tracing and debugging interfaces. | C | 254,666 | +19 | n/a | Pro | 67,161 | 15 y | today | NOASSERTION | Other | Build with it |
| 22down 34 since 2026-11-06 | react/react | A JavaScript library for building declarative, component-based user interfaces for the web, servers and native mobile apps.Idea: Build a reusable component library with a shared state hook and render it both in the browser and on the server with React. | JavaScript | 252,271 | +47 | n/a | Pro | 51,812 | 13 y | today | MIT | Other | Build with it |
| 23down 34 since 2026-11-06 | multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills | A single CLAUDE.md file of behavioural guidelines that aims to make Claude Code make fewer wrong assumptions and overcomplicated changes, based on Andrej Karpathy's observations.Idea: Build a CLI that scores a git diff for unrelated edits and overengineering, flagging changes that do not trace back to the stated task. | n/a | 230,313 | +56 | n/a | Pro | 22,918 | 9 mo | 6 mo ago | none | Claude Code and MCP | Build with it |
| 24down 34 since 2026-11-06 | TheAlgorithms/Python | A large educational collection of algorithms and data structures implemented in Python, organised into directories by topic.Idea: Build a searchable study app that runs each algorithm's doctests and visualises its steps on sample inputs for learners. | Python | 225,927 | +1 | n/a | Pro | 51,276 | 10 y | 4 d ago | MIT | Other | Build with it |
| 25down 34 since 2026-11-06 | anomalyco/opencode | An open source AI coding agent that runs in the terminal, with a desktop app and built-in build and plan agents.Idea: Build a read-only code review bot that uses the plan agent to summarise pull request diffs and post findings as comments. | TypeScript | 225,079 | +36 | n/a | Pro | 30,372 | 18 mo | today | MIT | Other | Build with it |
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Data from the official GitHub API, refreshed daily. Repos with a big star jump and no commits are hidden as likely star farming. Every Monday: the weekly list and pages per category, such as Claude Code and MCP.