Workaround
Unstar GitHub Repos in Bulk
Details
- External ID
- 48956548
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Workaround
- Website domain
- workaround.run
- Launched
- July 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 11
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5764635603345281
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Github currently doesn’t let you unstar repositories in bulk. To resolve that let me introduce Workaround : a web app where users can not only unstar GitHub repos in bulk but also use AI filters and discover and star repos with AI.https://github.com/Ayush0054/workaround
Enrichment
- Theme
- git and repository workflow tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- bulk unstar github repositories
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a web app utilizing the standard GitHub REST/GraphQL API for starred repositories, augmented with LLM prompts for categorization and bulk unstar API calls.
Discussion
9 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Whether the world needs this product, Privacy concerns about GitHub star history being used for profiling, Vague repercussions of making GitHub profile private
Feature requests: Export star list to JSON format for personal historical record before deletion, Clearer classification criteria for deprecated/unmaintained repos
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 111 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #45 of 112 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 252 days after the earliest competitor.
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- GWZ · hn · 2026-07-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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- Srcmap · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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