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Startups projects on GitHub

Resources and advice for founding and running startups.

As of , the most-starred Startups projects on GitHub are weekly (106.3K stars), chinese-independent-developer (61.8K stars) and awesome-cto (35.6K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 18 Startups repositories with 363.7K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was replica-skill, with +178 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+178

replica-skill

Jakeschincariol/replica-skill · ★ 2.9K

A set of eleven Claude skills that clone any app: they reverse-engineer it, rebuild it, test it for bugs, then fix what its users complain about so you end up with something you could sell.

+66

founder-skill

Jakeschincariol/founder-skill · ★ 868

Founder Skill is a set of eleven free Claude skills that let you stress-test a business idea before spending money on it: a board of directors modeled on Hormozi, Thiel and Jobs frameworks, a marketing director, a CFO, and a consumer panel of 100 simulated buyer agents.

+51

weekly

ruanyf/weekly · ★ 106.3K

A weekly Chinese-language online magazine (科技爱好者周刊, Science and Technology Lovers Weekly) that records tech content worth sharing.

+14

chinese-independent-developer

1c7/chinese-independent-developer · ★ 61.8K

A massive curated list of indie projects made by Chinese independent developers, aggregating apps, SaaS tools, and websites that others are building on the side.

The all-time top

18 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · ruanyf/weekly

    weekly

    A weekly Chinese-language online magazine (科技爱好者周刊, Science and Technology Lovers Weekly) that records tech content worth sharing.

    106.3K
  2. #2 · 1c7/chinese-independent-developer

    chinese-independent-developer

    A massive curated list of indie projects made by Chinese independent developers, aggregating apps, SaaS tools, and websites that others are building on the side.

    61.8K
  3. #3 · kuchin/awesome-cto

    awesome-cto

    A curated, opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers and VP Engineering, focused on startups and hyper-growth companies.

    35.6K
  1. 4

    awesome-oss-alternatives

    19.8KRunaCapital/awesome-oss-alternatives · Python

    A curated list of open-source startups that can replace well-known closed-source SaaS products — from Supabase and Metabase to Chatwoot and Penpot, each mapped to the SaaS product it competes with.

  2. 5

    ToolsOfTheTrade

    17.2Kcjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade

    A curated, categorized list of SaaS and self-hosted tools that startups and developers use instead of building and hosting their own infrastructure, originally collected from Hacker News discussions.

  3. 6

    opc-methodology

    16.9Keasychen/opc-methodology · PHP

    This is the second edition of '一人企业方法论' (One-Person Enterprise Methodology), a Chinese ebook on building and scaling a one-person business, written for both independent developers and non-technical people running side gigs like self-media, e-commerce, or digital products.

  4. 7

    Mind-Expanding-Books

    14.4Khackerkid/Mind-Expanding-Books · JavaScript

    A curated, categorized list of great non-fiction and fiction books to read, covering topics like startups, philosophy, psychology, history, economics, and more.

  5. 8

    Startup-CTO-Handbook

    14.2KZachGoldberg/Startup-CTO-Handbook

    This repository holds the latest content of the Startup CTO's Handbook, a book covering leadership, management, and technical topics for people leading software engineering teams at startups.

  6. 9

    expert_readed_books

    12.7K0voice/expert_readed_books

    This is a curated Chinese-language reading list of books recommended for software engineers, covering computer science, software engineering, startups, philosophy, history, business biographies, math, economics, and novels.

  7. 10

    lean-side-bussiness

    12.2Keasychen/lean-side-bussiness

    It's a free online book by Easy Chen, 'Lean Side Business' (精益副业), on how programmers can elegantly build a side business. It extends his earlier 'How Programmers Make Pocket Money' and adapts the lean startup process specifically for side projects.

  8. 11

    awesome-indie

    11.9Kmezod/awesome-indie

    A curated list of resources to help independent developers make money from their own products: communities, newsletters, podcasts, talks, posts, books, tools and courses, compiled by indie maker @mezod of everyday.app.

  9. 12

    og-equity-compensation

    11.5Kjlevy/og-equity-compensation

    This is 'The Open Guide to Equity Compensation,' a long-form reference guide covering stock options, RSUs, and the taxes around them for employees negotiating equity at startups and private companies, originally built as a GitHub project and now published on Holloway.

  10. 13

    skills

    10.9Kslavingia/skills

    A pack of 10 Claude Code skills built around the advice in 'The Minimalist Entrepreneur' by Sahil Lavingia, giving slash commands for each stage of starting and running a small business.

  11. 14

    polar

    10.4Kpolarsource/polar · Python

    Polar is a billing platform for AI software: it turns usage — tokens, agent runs, GPU seconds — into revenue, so AI startups can charge for their products without building billing from scratch.

  12. 15

    The-Accidental-CTO

    3.9Ksubhashchy/The-Accidental-CTO · TypeScript

    This is 'The Accidental CTO', a story-driven system design handbook by Subhash Choudhary about scaling the Dukaan e-commerce platform from zero to over a million stores without a formal CS degree.

  13. 16

    replica-skill

    2.9KJakeschincariol/replica-skill · Python

    A set of eleven Claude skills that clone any app: they reverse-engineer it, rebuild it, test it for bugs, then fix what its users complain about so you end up with something you could sell.

  14. 17

    founder-skill

    868Jakeschincariol/founder-skill · Python

    Founder Skill is a set of eleven free Claude skills that let you stress-test a business idea before spending money on it: a board of directors modeled on Hormozi, Thiel and Jobs frameworks, a marketing director, a CFO, and a consumer panel of 100 simulated buyer agents.

  15. 18

    submitmap-mcp

    276FifthWye/submitmap-mcp

    SubmitMap MCP is a remote MCP server that gives AI agents structured access to SubmitMap, a directory of product launch platforms and startup directories, where each platform is a typed record with eligibility rules, disqualifiers, submission steps, approval time and dofollow status.

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