# open-source-ideas/ideas

💡 Looking for inspiration for your next open source project? Or perhaps you've got a brilliant idea you can't wait to share with others? Open Source Ideas is a community built specifically for this! 👋

Repository: https://github.com/open-source-ideas/ideas
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ideas
License Family: other
Topics: open-source-community, ideas, open-source-initiative, community, hacktoberfest, open-source
Last push: 2025-09-24T14:59:31+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 52/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 43, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3612, "days_push": 343, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6805, forks 229 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:48.719455+00:00)

## What it is
A community-driven GitHub repository that collects crowdsourced open source project ideas as labeled issues. It connects people with ideas to developers looking for inspiration or projects to contribute to.

## Use cases
- find inspiration for my next open source project
- share an open source project idea with the community
- find beginner-friendly open source project ideas
- discover project ideas filtered by difficulty and workload
- find ideas to contribute to during hacktoberfest

## When to choose
- you want to build an open source project but don't know what to create
- you have an idea you want to share or find collaborators for
- you want beginner, intermediate, or advanced project ideas by category

## When to avoid
- you need a runnable tool or library rather than a list of ideas
- you want curated, maintained code rather than community discussion threads

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: developer-tools, documentation
- domain: developer-tools, awesome-lists, education
- platform: -
- tags: open-source, community, project-ideas, hacktoberfest, crowdsourced, web-server

## Member repositories
- open-source-ideas/ideas (main) score 52

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:48.719455+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:42:04.769411+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/open-source-ideas/ideas (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:48.719455+00:00, sha 82e46dbb4cf5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.