GitHub README best practices for discoverability and conversion
Your README is your project's landing page and its primary search-indexed text. Here's what the good ones do differently — and what most maintainers get wrong.
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Longer-form updates and explainers. For a terse ship log, see Changelog.
Submit your repo free →Free listing. Peer reviews from real developers.
Why your open-source project isn't getting stars (and what to do)
12 stars after 3 weeks? The diagnosis is almost always distribution, not the project. Here's the exact fix sequence.
Read more →How to get feedback on your open-source project
Most users have opinions and never share them. Here's the specific sequence that gets useful feedback from real developers on your open-source project.
Read more →Where to submit your open-source GitHub project
Every venue worth submitting to in 2026 — organized by traffic profile, launch-day vs durable visibility, and honest tradeoffs for each.
Read more →The 800-character rule: why long reviews beat thumbs
Why we set the review minimum at 800 characters, what that actually filters out, and the data showing why a higher floor produces better signal than upvotes.
Read more →How to write a code review that helps the maintainer
A practical template for writing peer reviews of open-source projects: what to cover, what to avoid, and how to give honest feedback without being a jerk.
Read more →GitHub stars don’t measure quality. Here’s what does.
Stars measure how loud your launch was, not whether your project is worth using. Here are the 5 signals that actually tell you.
Read more →How to launch an open-source project in 2026
A pragmatic launch playbook for OSS maintainers: pick the right surfaces, sequence the launches, and keep visibility compounding after week one.
Read more →Topic pages, RSS, and the public API
Ways to browse and syndicate what’s on the RepoRanker board: topic index pages, the RSS feed, and the public JSON API.
Read more →Credits, boosts, and the 48-hour review window
How earning credits after the 48-hour review window, releasing reviews, and spending credits on leaderboard boosts all fit together.
Read more →What is RepoRanker?
A public leaderboard and credit-based review community for open-source GitHub projects. Submit free, earn credits for writing reviews, spend them on visibility.
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