I often missed freshmeat.net since it was discontinued. For those that don't know, it was a website where FOSS project could announce their releases. I liked to browse it to discover new projects.
I often thought about building a substitute, but it never got high enough on the priority list, until now. Due to 2 reasons:
- I worked on a project publishing a mirror of checksums files [1] published by projects hosted in Github, and I reused this F# code base [2] to collect data for Freshstuff.
- AI can accelerate the development of side projects like this one. Assigning tags to repos and generating the static site from the collected data is all done by code generated by Gemini 2.5 and RooCode [3].
The code generated is not the most efficient one, but it allowed me to finalise the project and see if there is enough interest in such a website these days to warrant further development. And I've seen some tags are erroneously assigned. That would probably be the first thing to fix if there is interest in freshstuff.
The list of releases is not exhaustive, but currently covers 4000+ projects. It only covers Github Releases at this time.
I hope it can be interesting to some others than me. Let me know here or via the about page!
1: https://github.com/asfaload/checksums