🏅 Blue Ribbon Repos

We sample public GitHub projects, judge their market potential like produce at a state fair, and award a blue ribbon to the best in each category. How we judge →

How does one win a Blue Ribbon?

Competitive analysis We map the real competitors — their pricing, reach, and logos — and judge how each project stacks up against what's already out there.

Persona interest We model the buyer segments: how many there are, what they'd pay per year, and whether they'd actually choose this over the tools they use today.

Market potential The revenue a project could capture — modeled from today's MVP up to a category-leader ceiling, the size of the prize if it won its market. The biggest, most reachable opportunity takes the ribbon.

Every ribbon is backed by a full report — competitor landscape, buyer personas, and a four-stage revenue simulation. Run one on your own repos →

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Finance

payment-fraud-detector

ML-based REST API for real-time payment fraud scoring via /predict and /predict/batch endpoints.

$164,925,000 category-leader potential · large market today: −$30,000 Brix Value

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Consumer productivity

inbox-zero

Open-source AI email assistant: triage, auto-draft, bulk unsubscribe, rules, and analytics.

$23,227,500 category-leader potential · large market today: $575,000 Brix Value

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DevOps

checkov

Open-source IaC & container security scanner (Terraform, K8s, images, secrets) with commercial SaaS tier

$10,160,000 category-leader potential · large market today: $322,000 Brix Value

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Education

DeepFocusCrawler

Desktop web crawler for non-technical users to explore and export site content without coding.

$4,331,250 category-leader potential · large market today: −$30,000 Brix Value

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Games

SF-Circle

Browser drawing game: sketch circles, squares & triangles, get precision scores, compete on a leaderboard.

$232,500 category-leader potential · large market today: −$7,500 Brix Value

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The full fairground is for entrants

These ribbons are just the winners. The complete database — all 77 judged projects with every report — opens to anyone who's entered the fair. Submit one of your own repos for review to unlock it.