Workaround
review and clean up your GitHub stars
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GitHub doesn’t let you unstar repos in bulk, so I built Workaround, a simple app for reviewing and unstarring GitHub stars in batches.
HN · launched Jul 15, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 71%) · 0 views
Niche: git management and workflow tools · 221 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▼ -31% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes Workaround is a web dashboard that authenticates with GitHub OAuth, reads starred repositories via the GitHub REST/GraphQL API, uses an LLM to classify them, and calls unstar endpoints in batches.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 272 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #213 of 273 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 258 days after the earliest competitor.
- Star Digest · ph · 2026-11-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Stars Organizer · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- star-demo · github · 2026-11-05 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Star Exchange · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- ShipReel · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- GitHubRepo.cloud · ph · 2026-10-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Giithubstarxchange · github · 2026-09-27 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Similarity = cosine(your_GitHub_stars, Karpathy) Client-side · hn · 2026-01-06 · 172 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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