Workaround
review and clean up your GitHub stars
Details
- External ID
- 48916319
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Workaround
- Website domain
- workaround.run
- Launched
- July 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2873357228195938
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
GitHub doesn’t let you unstar repos in bulk, so I built Workaround, a simple app for reviewing and unstarring GitHub stars in batches.
Enrichment
- Theme
- git and repository workflow tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- github stars management tool
- Manually corrected
- False
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.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 141 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #97 of 142 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 258 days after the earliest competitor.
- buy-github-stars · github · 2026-09-17 · 178 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Star Exchange · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- github-stars-history · github · 2026-09-16 · 277 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Giithubstarxchange · github · 2026-09-27 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Similarity = cosine(your_GitHub_stars, Karpathy) Client-side · hn · 2026-01-06 · 172 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Browse GitHub repos in Emacs without cloning · hn · 2026-04-26 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- GWZ · hn · 2026-07-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- github-ranking-audit · github · 2026-09-17 · 213 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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