Launch HN: Openbase (YC S20) – reviews and insights for open-source packages
Hi everyone! I'm Lior, one of the makers of Openbase ( https://openbase.io ). We help developers choose the right JS package for any task - through user reviews and insights about packages' popularity, reliability, activity and more. I have started Openbase out of my own frustration as a developer: there are 1.3 million JavaScript packages out there, and I found myself spending an increasing amount of time researching and evaluating packages every time I wanted to accomplish a task - displaying an autocomplete, sending an HTTP request, extracting significant keywords from an page, etc. Each time I would make that research, I spent hours reading different blogposts comparing those packages, going over PRs and commit messages to see how active the development or maintainers are, and trying to cross-reference data from npm and GitHub to get to a decision. We started by gathering data from npm and GitHub - from versions and dependencies, to commits, pull requests, maint
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