That said, we must keep in mind that COSS and developer tools still only occupy a niche. Judging from these numbers, investments and star dynamics, COSS is in a sweet spot at the moment. This means the competition for GitHub stars is now higher than ever, which suggests the superstars above are indeed outliers and it’ll be difficult to replicate their success. Importantly, the average number of users per repository has shrunk from 0.8 to 0.3. And investments in open source products have almost tripled from 58 deals in 2015 to 144 deals in 2021. Your open source project can begin as a pet project but only if you can devote time to it.īut, at the same time, the number of projects (repositories) has grown at an even higher rate: from 600,000 to 359 million.
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