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Purpose

Hot lists high-heat repos. New releases lists projects that recently shipped a stable Release. Both come from Starcat’s discovery pool, not from local Stars. Whether to Star or ingest is still a separate step.
Hot info

In-app Hot info panel

New releases info

In-app New releases info panel

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Hot

Sidebar Explore → Hot. Source: Starcat discovery pool.
  • Archived repos and forks are excluded
  • Needs 1,000 Stars, or a composite heat threshold
  • Heat considers Stars, Forks, Release downloads, and recent activity
Cache lasts 3 hours and is shared with Discover and New releases. After expiry the shared catalog is refetched and Hot is recomputed. On failure the last good cache stays, with a stale hint.

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New releases

Sidebar Explore → New releases. Source: GitHub Releases inside the discovery pool.
  • Only projects with a stable Release in the last 180 days
  • Drafts, prereleases, Releases with nothing to download, archived repos, and forks are excluded
  • Default sort is last release time
Same 3-hour shared catalog. After expiry, projects and Release info are refetched. Failures keep the last good cache.

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Notes

After a find: optionally Star → tag / one-line note → ingest if you will keep it. Heat is not a fit score for a given stack. A recent Release is not a production-ready signal.
Last modified on August 25, 2026