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Osscar

Measuring open-source growth beyond GitHub stars

Details

External ID
47933952
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Osscar
Website domain
osscar.dev
Launched
April 28, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
5
Upvotes percentile
0.11182519280205655
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Description

OSSCAR is a quarterly ranking of the fastest-growing open-source GitHub organizations. It's a joint project between Supabase and >commit, a VC focused on open-source.A few notes about the methodology: we focus on organization accounts (excluding personal accounts and forks), split them into two divisions by starting star count so smaller and larger ecosystems are evaluated among peers, measure growth across three signals (GitHub stars, contributors, and package downloads from npm, PyPI, and Cargo), normalize each signal within its division using a log–minmax transform, and combine the resulting scores into a single composite via the L² norm. Organizations are then ranked by this composite within their division. Full methodology is on the site.This is v1 of the ranking, so there’s a lot of room for improvement. In future versions we want to add other package managers, new signals and refine the methodology. Things we'd love opinions on:1. What do you think about the signals we are using? Which important ones are we missing? 2. Is log-minmax a robust scaler in this setting, or is there something better? 3. Is L^2 norm the right aggregation strategy for sparse, heterogeneous signals?Everything's open: the website, the data and the scoring pipeline. We'd love your feedback on the methodology, the rankings, signals we're missing, or anything that looks wrong. Issues and PRs very welcome.Repo: https://github.com/commitvc/osscar

Enrichment

Theme
git and repository workflow tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Analytics & BI
Audience
B2B
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
open source growth metrics beyond github stars
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes The project is an aggregation leaderboard combining public metrics from the GitHub API and package managers (NPM, PyPI, Crates.io) displayed on a web dashboard.

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Launched 179 days after the earliest competitor.

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