OSS Investment Sourcing Dashboard

A tool for tracking and analyzing open source projects to identify investment opportunities. Monitors GitHub repositories for traction signals, growth metrics, and investment potential.

Features

• Traction Analysis: Track stars, forks, contributors, and growth over time
• Big Tech Filtering: Automatically exclude repositories from large tech companies (FAANG, etc.)
• Category Tagging: Auto-categorize repos (AI/ML, DevTools, Infrastructure, Data, Security, etc.)
• Funding Detection: Identify projects with existing VC backing
• Investability Scoring: Composite score based on growth, engagement, and market signals
• Historical Tracking: SQLite database for tracking metrics over time
• Web Dashboard: Interactive UI for browsing and filtering projects

Setup

# Install dependencies (uses standard library, no external packages required)
python3 dashboard_v2.py

The dashboard will be available at http://localhost:8080

Project Structure

• dashboard_v2.py - Main web server and dashboard UI
• analysis.py - Funding detection, categorization, and scoring logic
• database.py - SQLite database operations and metrics tracking
• github_traction_analysis.py - GitHub API integration for traction metrics
• github_forks_analysis.py - Fork analysis utilities
• oss_traction.db - SQLite database (auto-created)

Categories

Projects are automatically tagged into categories:

• AI/ML
• DevTools
• Infrastructure
• Data
• Security
• Observability
• Frontend
• Backend
• Fintech

License

MIT