Discovery
How GitRadar finds repositories you'll love based on your GitHub stars.
The Discover page is the core of GitRadar. It surfaces one repository at a time, chosen specifically for you based on what you've already starred.
How recommendations work
GitRadar uses vector embeddings to find repositories that are semantically similar to the ones you've starred.
Your starred repos
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Vector embeddings (128 dimensions per repo)
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Cosine similarity search across all repos
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Top match not yet seen → shown to youEach repository in the database has an embedding generated from its description, topics, and metadata. When GitRadar picks a recommendation, it finds the repository with the highest average similarity to your starred set — excluding anything you've already starred or dismissed.
Starring and dismissing
Every action you take feeds back into the recommendation engine:
| Action | Effect |
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| Star | Repo is added to your GitHub stars. It's included in future similarity calculations. |
| Dismiss | Repo is marked as not interesting. It's excluded from all future recommendations. |
| Skip (no action) | The current recommendation is held until you act on it. |
Starring from GitRadar actually stars the repository on GitHub — your GitHub stars list stays in sync.
Daily quota
| Plan | Discoveries per day |
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| Free | 10 |
| Pro | Unlimited |
The quota resets at midnight UTC each day. When you hit the limit, GitRadar shows you when the quota resets and offers an upgrade to Pro.
You'll also receive a daily digest email each morning summarizing the repositories you discovered the day before.
Dismissed repositories
Repositories you've dismissed are tracked and never shown again in Discover. You can review them in the Dismissed tab if you change your mind — but re-enabling them is not currently supported from the UI.
Trending
The Trending tab is separate from Discovery. It shows repositories gaining the most GitHub stars in the last 24 hours, across all of GitHub — not personalized to your taste. It's a good way to spot what the community is excited about right now.