A GitHub trending board that stays useful after the hype

The default trending list is a firehose: twelve repositories, gone by tomorrow, half of them someone's weekend experiment. Reading it daily is fine entertainment and lousy research. What I wanted was the same data with a longer memory — star growth over time, the language a project is actually written in, and a way to look back at a month instead of a day.

That is what GitHomed does. It mirrors the trending feed, keeps a per-repository page with the growth curve, and splits the board by what a project produces rather than by language — so the ones that ship images, video or audio are collected separately from the general list. The image and video boards are the two I open most, because that is the kind of tooling I end up actually installing.

Three habits that made it useful

Open the monthly view once a week, not the daily list once a day.
Judge by star growth over a week, not by absolute count — the counts are dominated by old projects.
Read the project page before cloning. If a repo has no README section on how to run it locally, it stays bookmarked and never installed.

The other half of the problem is remembering what you already looked at. Keeping a short note per project — one line on what it does and one on why you skipped it — is worth more than a folder of stars, because a star tells you nothing a month later.