Worth a look, rarely the first result

How this is decided

Two different routes land a repo here, and they are not the same claim. Each row says which one applied.

Met the thresholds

Flagged mechanically by the discovery import: a score of at least 0.92 on maintenance, licence clarity, documentation, and self-description, and between 200 and 1k stars. The score is applied first and the star band last, so a low star count never qualifies anything on its own.

Editorial pick

A judgment call, and the star band does not apply. These sit below the best-known option in their own category rather than being small in absolute terms — Dokku has tens of thousands of stars, and still almost nobody reaches for it before Heroku or Vercel. Relative obscurity, not absolute.

Founder relevance is the one dimension no formula produces: it is an editorial call, present only on entries someone has actually reviewed. Every row shows its full score breakdown either way.