Introducing starscout – a tool that lets you search your github stars using natural language.

By default it finds repositories from your stars only, but you can enable “Global Search,” which would find repositories from all the repositories that are indexed.

I am an avid surfer of Hacker News and other tech websites, frequently discovering useful open source repositories that I star on github.

However, when I need these repositories later, I often struggle to remember their exact names, only recalling some vague description of it.

Finding that specific repository among hundreds or thousands of stars becomes frustrating, which is why I made (vibe coded) this. 

Sharing it in case you find it useful too.

It uses vector embeddings to allow for natural language search. 

Vector embedding  are calculated for each of your starred repository using their name, description, tags and some parts of its README.

Actually this is an old post on twitter but kinda forgot to repost on farcaster earlier, so doing it now. 😅

Github repository:

https://github.com/itzlambda/starscout