Topic

Open-source project health

Judging whether an open-source project is still actively developed from commit recency and release cadence rather than popularity signals such as star counts.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

Five hours of monthly maintenance ate a 40% cut in an eleven-tool SaaS bill

A five-person team swapped eleven paid subscriptions for self-hosted open source and came out close to level, because the cost that mattered was the maintainer's own hours.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence30
Adoption15
Hype gap+20
Incentives55
Confidence40