What is Open Radar?
Discover and contribute to open source projects with Open Radar. Find beginner-friendly repositories, collaborate with developers, and grow your coding skills.
Problem
Users manually search for open source projects on platforms like GitHub, facing difficulty discovering suitable projects and overwhelming number of repositories to filter beginner-friendly options.
Solution
A platform that aggregates and filters open source projects for contribution opportunities, enabling users to browse curated repositories by technology stack, skill level, or activity status. Example: filtering "JavaScript" projects labeled "good first issue".
Customers
Web developers, students, and open-source contributors aged 18-35 seeking hands-on coding experience and portfolio-building.
Unique Features
Beginners-first repository tagging system, contribution progress tracking, and collaboration tools connecting developers directly with maintainers.
User Comments
Simplifies project discovery
Great for first-time contributors
Saves hours of GitHub searching
Helps build coding confidence
Needs more niche tech stacks
Traction
Launched on ProductHunt on 2023-09-15 with 280+ upvotes. Claims 8,000+ monthly active users according to internal analytics.
Market Size
The global open source services market is valued at $25 billion (Grand View Research 2023), with GitHub alone hosting 100M+ repositories and 65M+ developers (GitHub Octoverse 2023).
